The Business Coach

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About What Coaching Can and Cannot Do For You, but Didn’t Know You Could Ask.

Dr. Steven Berglas is an executive coach and management consultant who as a faculty member of Harvard Medical School's department of Psychiatry for over 30 years, specialized in the treatment of narcissistic disorders. See full bio

September 29, 2008

In Terms Of Impression-management, Team Obama Is Kicking Team McCain's Butt

Many leaders, and far more celebrities, employ “impression-management coaches” (or public relations [PR] agents) when they stick one-or-both feet in their mouths. Mel Gibson did following the anti-Semitic diatribe he launched at the LAPD officer who busted him for DUI. When Kobe Bryant was accused of raping the assistant manager of a hotel he visited, the L.A. Laker star used PR agents in an effort to refurbish his image and retain his lucrative “endorsement persona.” Read More

September 24, 2008

McCain's Mistake, My Mistake, and Harry Levinson's Genius.

Today, 9/24/08, I think John S. McCain made a strategic mistake. I know I did. What’s Harry Levinson, the psychoanalyst most responsible for linking psychology with business, got to do with it? Read More

September 23, 2008

Where Have You Gone "Give 'em Hell" Harry S. Truman?

Forgive me; this post is nothing if not provocative. But I cannot help myself. Just yesterday I avoided referencing the #1 spots on each ticket for president when introducing my "New & Improved" blog, and this evening a quote attributed to Barack Obama is forcing me to take portable-keyboard-in-hand again. Read More

September 22, 2008

The Business Coach: My "New & Improved" Blog

Welcome to my “New & Improved” blog, The Business Coach: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About What Coaches Do, and Cannot Do For You, but Didn’t Know You Could Ask. To answer the obvious question, “Why switch from ‘Success Without Distress’ to this subject?” it’ easy: I think this will be of greater interest to Psychology Today’s readers.
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September 6, 2008

The Route To The Oval Office: Sizzle & Style...not Substance.

This seventh –and final— post as an alleged authority on the subject of “Success Without Distress,” comes close on the heels of my sixth post for a simple reason. Read More

September 3, 2008

The Truth About Sarah Palin

This post is not an instance of jumping on a bandwagon or beating a nearly dead horse. I am doing what I’ve always wanted to do since gaining a modicum of stature from my writings: Trying to disabuse the public of misconceptions concerning how, psychologically speaking, people tick. Read More

August 17, 2008

Discerning the content of a candidate’s character: The use of IF… vs. WHEN… I become President.

Consider Hilary Clinton who prefaced every remark she made with “When I am President…” Where is she now? Read More

August 10, 2008

John Edwards: A self-deceiving psycho-diagnostician.

John Edwards is going to be psychologically devastated if he thinks that after last Friday’s “performance” he is on the road to redemption. Read More

August 7, 2008

Pygmalion In The Gutter

Ashley “Kristen” Dupre, the prostitute at the center of the maelstrom surrounding Eliot Spitzer, is offered $1 million to star on a reality show. Should you care? Read More

July 16, 2008

The Burden of Being A-Rod

After watching the longest Major League All-star game in history, the feeling I was left with was sorrow for the plight of Alex Rodriguez, the MVP third baseman for the New York Yankees, who happens to be the highest paid man in baseball. Read More

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