TY - BOOK AU - Mohapatra, Pradipta K. AU - Chella, Ganesh. TI - Are you ready for the corner office?: Insights from 25 executing experiences SN - 9788132113720 U1 - 658.407124 PY - 2014/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sage KW - Career development KW - Executive coaching KW - India N1 - Introduction; SECTION A: The Corner Office Seen through the Keyhole of Executive Coaching; 1 -- Executive Coaching in the Indian Context; 2 -- The Human Side of Leader Development; SECTION B -- Enhancing Emotional Intelligence; 3 -- The Importance of the Emotional Side of Your Personality; 4 -- When the Flaw Turns Fatal; 5 -- Low Self-Esteem Can Derail aLeader's Career; SECTION C -- Shaping Attitudes and Beliefs; 6 -- Transporting the WinningAttitude; 7 -- What Makes People Miserable. 8 -- Executives Succeed When They Refuse to Become Victims of Their Circumstances; 9 -- Celebrating the Feminine Side of a Woman's Leadership Style; SECTION D -- Developing New Skills, Styles and Behaviours; 10 -- Catching Up on Missed Managerial Learning Milestones; 11 -- Developing This Mysterious Thing Called Executive Presence; 12 -- Growing a Business through Disciplined Leadership; 13 -- Helping the Chosen One Claim His Succession Space; SECTION E -- Acquiring Global Competencies; 14 -- When Indian Executives Must Measure up to Global Benchmarks. 15 -- It Takes Innovation and Effort to Crack the Competency Code; SECTION F: Managing Career Transitions; 16 -- Waking Up and Smelling the Coffee; 17 -- The Anxiety of Not Having a Position of Authority; 18 -- Revisiting Functional Leadership; 19 -- The Need for a Coach-Mentor Partnership to Facilitate Radical Career Shift; SECTION G -- Grappling with Emerging Executive and Entrepreneurial Agendas; 20 -- When a Young EntrepreneurHas to Make a Life-AlteringDecision; 21 -- Coaching Principles Applied to Peer to Peer Business Mentoring; 22 -- The Importance of a Thinking Partner. SECTION H -- Enhancing Coaching Effectiveness; 23 -- The Power of Public Accountability in Influencing Change; 24 -- It Takes Trust, Time and Team Work to Succeed; 25 -- The Pygmalion Effect in Coaching; An Introduction to Typical Coaching Processes and Some of the Frequently Used Terms; Brief Profile of Our Case Contributors ER -