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A New Vintage - Old Wine Maturing in New Bottles

By Erik de Haan (November 2005 Issue)
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The discipline of coaching may appear fashionable but it has a long history behind it. Inspiring coaching conversations have been passed down from classical times, in Plato’s dialogues and in Seneca’s letters to Lucilius. The first coach appears in Homer’s Odyssey, where the goddess Pallas Athena assumes the form of mentor in order to assist adventurous mortals.

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