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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

There are a few very excellent coaches in the corporate strategy domain, for instance Vijay Govindarajan and Michael Porter. The second question I ask is: are the client’s issues integrity or ethical issues? It was about people who, instead of being fired for ethics violations, got coaches.

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When Leadership Coaching Works (And When It Doesn't)

Marshall Goldsmith

CK Prahalad or Vijay Govindarajan), most - including me - are not. Second, when leaders commit an ethical violation they should be fired - not coached. It only takes one ethical violation to ruin the reputation of an otherwise outstanding company. Although some are experts at strategy (e.g.