I doubt Shakespeare would have been a fan of coaching. Rather than plotting revenge, can you imagine Hamlet, instead, receiving counsel to make peace in the aftermath of a hostile takeover? On the other hand, whoever said, “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t” would likely have been a Marshall Goldsmith fanboy extraordinaire. After all, throwing potentially good money after bad is almost as popular in corporate practice as having too many meetings. No disrespec