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If you're a CEO, you're already performing well by every measure that matters. Going to the next level involves broadening your leadership vision and honing your purpose.

If you're an executive coach, your clients rate you and your work is good. The problem isn't your capability; it's that your credibility, positioning and network haven't yet caught up.

Both of you care about how power remains trustworthy in the age of AI.

Power does not corrupt. It reveals.

When the pressure becomes existential, functional competence is no longer sufficient. The question is no longer what the leader can do, but whether they can remain steady when the ground is shifting beneath them.

The work of leadership, therefore, is not only to perform, but to become trustworthy. And the work of executive coaching, at its best, is to participate in that leadership formation through the testing and strengthening of the leader's inner architecture .

Extract from the forthcoming book, 'The Art of CEO Coaching', by

Dr. John Blakey

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