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The Practice of Executive Coaching Requires Practice: A Clarification and Challenge to Our Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Dan Fontaine*
Affiliation:
Bank of America
Greg F. Schmidt
Affiliation:
University of South Florida and Bank of America
*
E-mail: [email protected], Address: Dan Fontaine, 11166 Windsor Place, Tampa, FL 33626

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2009 

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Footnotes

*

Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, 4202; E Fowler Avenue, PCD4118G, Tampa, FL 33620

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