Dr Richard Boyatzis of Case Western Reserve University has written about this interesting phenomenon, in a
paper published in April 2006 in the Academy of Management Journal on Learning and Education called
‘Building Sustainable Leaders Through Coaching Skills’. In this paper, Dr Boyatzis showed how getting
leaders to spend time coaching others was reversing the debilitating physical effects of ‘power stress’ that
executive’s experience. It’s long been known that stress can reduce cognitive capacities and decision
making: the stress that leaders experience reduces their effectiveness and ability to think clearly.