Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar Schein

Michael Bungay Stanier, the interviewee from our last issue, recommended this book, saying that readers can get a real insight into coaching from this well-known and influential writer.

Bungay Stanier says “Schein has written about corporate culture and understanding cultures and career anchors. He’s been really influential in a number of different arenas. His most recent combination of books, one is called Helping and the other is called Humble Inquiry.” Schein provides great insight, strongly connected to the topic of the coaching habit, about why your help works so much less often than you hope it will.
Bungay Stanier also shares Schein’s key insight: “When you offer somebody advice, you raise your status and you diminish their status, with this you create resistance immediately to the very help that you’re trying to offer up.”

If you want to investigate this further, Bungay Stanier recommends to start with Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help. Helping was recommended by Michael Bungay Stanier, the founder and senior partner of Box of Crayons, – watch our interview with him where he talks about developing a Coaching Habit.

The book is available at amazon.co.uk and amazon.com.

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