My heart jumped for joy when I read in the July 6th Fortune magazine Eric Schmidt’s answer to the question, “What is the best advice you ever got?”

Eric said, “The advice that sticks out I got from John Doerr, who in 2001 said, ‘My advice to you is to have a coach.’”

Now then, Eric went on about that, saying, “I initially resented the advice, becasue after all, I was a CEO. I was pretty experienced. Why would I need a coach? Am I doing something wrong?  My argument was, How could a coach advise me if I’m the best persom in the world at this?  But that’s not what a coach does.  The coach doesn’t have to play the sport as well as you do.  They have to watch you and get you to be your best.  In the business context a coach is not a repetitious coach.  A coach is someone who looks at something with another set of eyes, describes it to you in [his/her] words, and discusses how to approach the problem…

This picture is Dave Logan and Steve Zaffron, two people whose coaching I take and who wrote the best-seller, The Three Laws of Performance.  Here they are at the Conference for Global Transformation, signing books… but more on that later.  Suffice it to say that you want to read this book, and you definitely want to get a coach if you are on an executive team.  And I am available for that conversation….