About two years ago, I received a phone call from Rabbi Stuart Slammer, who having been inspired by reading Masterful Coaching, asked me to coach him. It turned out that Rabbi Slammer lived and worked less than a mile from my office in Brookline, Ma. I agreed to take him on and we enjoyed many conversations—something which caused Stuart to compliment me by saying I was prone to “knessed,” (random acts of kindness). Stuart turned out to be a fascinating and intriguing individual to work with—if he were not a rabbi in the tradition of the great Rabbi Soloveitchik, he might easily be mistaken for a Fortune 500 business executive.

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