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Balancing Development With Day-to-Day Task Demands: A Multiple-Goal Approach to Executive Coaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

James W. Beck*
Affiliation:
The University of Akron
Jane Brodie Gregory
Affiliation:
The University of Akron
Alison E. Carr
Affiliation:
The University of Akron
*
Brodie Gregory, and Alison E. Carr, Psychology Department, The University of Minnesota, College of Arts and Science Building, Akron, OH 44325-4301

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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