Bob Kaplan is the author of GRAPPLING: Leaders Striving To Improve, a series of short stories that bring executive coaching to life. His unique style is both entertaining and offers a novel way of learning about leadership and self-improvement.

• To improve is to grapple with yourself. What are some of the essential things people need to look at to make the challenging work of self-improvement easier?
• Why do you strongly suggest that using an outside voice – a guide – is important to initiate and sustain change, and how does someone find a suitable guide?
• How do strong forces—overheated ambition, undue fear, unrealistic expectations, unchecked ego needs, disabling self-doubt—have a way of undermining our intentions?
• How do we go about finding the “blockers” to change?
• Why does positive feedback make people feel uncomfortable and how can it be directed to enhance performance?

Bob Kaplan is the author of GRAPPLING: Leaders Striving To Improve, a series of short stories that bring executive coaching to life. His unique style is both entertaining and offers a novel way of learning about leadership and self-improvement.

Bob is the founder and president of his own leadership consulting firm, Kaplan DeVries. He invented a 360 survey, the Leadership Versatility Index, that earned a patent for its unique way of assessing leaders. He and his colleagues also take a unique approach to delivering feedback. T

His last book was Fear Your Strengths: What You’re Best Could Be Your Biggest Problem. An honorary senior fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership, he has a B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

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