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Everyone hates to receive advice, but everyone loves to give it. Unfortunately, most advice is useless. To stop giving other people a piece of your mind, Michael Bungay Stanier – author of the best-selling The Coaching Habit – urges you to corral your “Advice Monster.” Stanier’s guidebook, which he describes as “a manual, a playbook, a studio, a dojo,” tells you how to make the transition from gratuitous meddler to helpful coach.
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Michael Bungay Stanier wrote the bestseller The Coaching Habit and founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that teaches “10-minute coaching.”
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3 weeks agoNot really accounting for introverts lol - but I get the point <br> <br>"as basic to the human condition as enjoying community over solitude"
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3 months agoI really enjoyed reading this! So many helpful reminders on what helping someone else should look like. I'll definitely work on suppressing my 'Tell-it' monster!
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5 months agoExcellent read! Thank you!
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11 months agoGot more from the summary than I did from reading the book! A very good summary.
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11 months ago“You don’t need a new app; you need a new operating system.” <br> <br>? Excellent. The whole world need this. We keep on changing the skin whilst our core remains unchanged. We remain to be [so] invested in our own story and storytelling; making the mistake of not letting new chapters to be written.