Executive Coaching Articles to Bookmark This Year
A bookmark list should send you to pages you will actually reopen. This one stays on Executive Coaching Blog so you can start from the decision you have this quarter, then open one article.
Open these first
| If you are… | Open this | Then this |
|---|---|---|
| Defining the work | What Is Executive Coaching? | How to Select an Executive Coach |
| Hiring for a CEO transition | Succession-Planning Coaching | Executive Coaching for First-Time CEOs |
| Sitting in a finance chair | Coaching for CFOs | Measuring Executive Coaching ROI |
| Running the board | Coaching for Board Chairs | Board-Level Team Coaching for Growth |
| Deciding how to meet | Virtual Executive Coaching | Book a session online |
The interview with Linus Murphy is From Peloton to Boardroom.
What to skip
Skip listicles that promise ten benefits and then repeat “clarity, confidence, performance.” If you want a tighter version of that claim, use 10 Proven Benefits of Executive Coaching. Skip city-by-city sales pages that never name a Tuesday action.
How to use a bookmark list
Do not open five tabs and call that preparation. Pick the row that matches the meeting you have this month. Read that page once, write one sentence you will use in the room, and leave the rest. A bookmark that you never reopen is just a nicer history list.
If you are hiring, start with the definition and the selection note, then stop. If you are in a handover, start with succession, then the first-time CEO page. If you are the CFO, start with the finance chair note and the measurement note. The table above is ordered by job, not by recency.
What a useful article does
It names a decision, a room, and a refuse list. If a page cannot tell you what to do on Tuesday, it is not a bookmark; it is a brochure.
When you come back to this list in a quarter, replace one row if the live issue changed. Do not grow the list for its own sake.
A ninety-day reading plan
Month one: one definition page and one selection page. Write the brief before you read the second. Month two: the page that matches the live chair, finance, or handover issue. Month three: reread the page you actually used in a meeting and note what it failed to tell you.
That failure list is how your own reading list should change. It is not a reason to open every category hub in one evening. If you finish the quarter with ten unfinished tabs, the list failed, not you.
Keep 50 Powerful Prompts for the hour itself. Use this list for choosing which hour. Two different jobs. Mix them and you will prepare forever.
When to stop reading and start the hour
A bookmark is a door, not a library. Once you can say the decision in one sentence, you have enough. Further reading becomes a way to delay the chemistry conversation. Conversations still start on the Contact page. This list cannot replace that conversation, and it should not try.
If a colleague asks for “a few links,” send one row from the table, not this whole page. One row is a brief. The whole page is a stall. Revisit the list when the job changes, not when a new calendar year arrives.
How this list should shrink
A useful reading list gets smaller as your brief gets sharper. After you pick a row, write the meeting it is for and the sentence you will use in that room. If you cannot name the meeting, you are collecting tabs. Collecting is how unread libraries start.
Send a colleague one row, not this whole page. One row is a brief. The whole page is a stall. Revisit the table when the job changes — a new chair, a finance seat, a handover — not when a calendar year turns.
Keep 50 Powerful Prompts for the hour itself. Use this list for choosing which hour. Those are different jobs. Mix them and you will prepare forever.
A list you reopen once a quarter is working. A list you reopen every Sunday is a stall. Use the table, then close the tab. If the brief still needs a fifth bookmark, the brief is not a brief yet.
For questions to take into the first hour, keep 50 Powerful Prompts open. To continue a conversation, use Contact.
