In this chapter, we offer a definition of a particular type of coaching, one focused on achieving sustained, desired change in the individual being coached. We also discuss a theory of intentional change, which we suggest explains why coaching in this manner indeed leads to sustained, desired...

Resolving the tension between theories E and O of change / Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria -- Purpose of change. Value maximization and the corporate objective function / Michael C. Jensen -- The puzzles and paradoxes of how living companies create wealth: why single-valued objective functions are...

Pt. 1. The change problem and its solution. Transforming organizations : why firms fail -- Successful change and the force that drives it -- pt. 2. The eight-stage process. Establishing a sense of urgency -- Creating the guiding coalition -- Developing the guiding coalition -- Developing a...