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Jane Creswell, 39, who attended Corporate Coach U's first teleclass in 1998, is a case study in the merits of online coaching. An overstressed IBM product manager in Raleigh, N.C., Creswell sought training because she wanted to leave IBM and set up an independent coaching practice. While continuing her job, she coached a few outside clients on the phone. "I realized," she says, "that I was talking about things I needed to talk to folks at IBM about--stress on the job, communications problems with people, whether they were doing the wrong kind of work." She approached the head...
Within six months, she was appointed full-time coach at her office, at her previous salary. Six months later, IBM's corporate chieftains invited her to the company's global headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. When her successful division was spun off this year to become Home Director, there were several full-time coaches at IBM, and the program was growing. "We've done lots of research over the past three years," says Tanya Clemons, V.P. of global executive and organizational development at IBM, "and we've found that those leaders who have the best coaching skills have better business results...
Yesterday, students crowded Harvard Hall for Government 1540: "The American Presidency," a popular government course taught by the Kennedy School's IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter...
...believe in sharing their work rather than selling it. Yet last month when one of these programmers, Miguel de Icaza, 27, announced the creation of the Gnome Foundation to bring open-source software to the masses, he was flanked by such giant corporate partners as Sun Microsystems, Compaq and IBM. That makes de Icaza a type that's rarer still: part software hippie handing flowers to the corporate police, part digital-age powerhouse...
...control of its ubiquitous five-ring logo. But the greybeards who run the committee were caught napping by the age of the Internet. Olympic.com was snapped up by a reputable U.S. paint company of that name, so the IOC lumbers on with the less catchy olympic.org (Although official sponsor IBM did snag olympics.com for this year's Sydney Games site...