We offer a second set of essays that are newly prepared for this issue of The Future of Coaching. Each of these essays is founded on a story or metaphor and most build on recent explorations by other authors of expertise and the current nature of knowledge.
The first essay is based on a classic metaphor offered many years ago by Plato as well as an observation of contemporary life made by a noted psychologist:
In Over Our Heads: Living and Learning in the Cave | Library of Professional Coaching
The second essay builds on a recent critique offered about the way in which 21st Century citizens are enamored with numbers:
The Cosmopolitan Expert: Dancing with Numbers and Narratives | Library of Professional Coaching
A third essay applies the analysis of six sub-cultures that operate in most organizations to the issue of expertise:
Coaching and Expertise in the Six Cultures | Library of Professional Coaching
A fourth essay is provided that returns to an opening comment in this introduction to Issue Twenty Eight of The Future of Coaching—a comment that we seem to know nothing or more precisely that we often do not know that we know nothing:
We finish with an interview one of us [KW] conducted with Bill Carrier, a professional coach who works mostly with upper-level leaders in organizations – and therefore offers a distinctive perspective on the crisis of expertise:
We hope that you find insight and perhaps some guidance in this issue of The Future of Coaching. We are living in times that are filled with experts—many of whom purport to know something. They might be right. But a little humility is called for. And we, as coaches and consultants must be just as humble in our attempt to be experts about expertise.
Kevin Weitz, Psy.D.
Guest Editor
William Bergquist, Ph.D.
Editor
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Reference
Jacoby, Jeff (2022) “Nobody Knows Anything,” Boston Globe, January 3, 2022, p. K7
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