Leadership Coaching is the leadership practice that makes the collaborative leadership style work. In their book The Extraordinary Coach: How the Best Leaders Help Others Grow, Jack Zenger and Kathleen Stinnett make a good case that in spite of sea changes in society, remarkably little has changed when it comes to the basics of management. Most leaders tend to gravitate to an area on a continuum between laissez-faire, autocratic, and collaborative, usually without much thought or intention. They also make the case that the future belongs to collaborators, and that the best way to lead a collaborative work place is to replace twentieth century management techniques with the newer practices of coaching.  Book Excerpt: Coaching as a Management Style