Many leaders, and far more celebrities, employ “impression-management coaches” (or public relations [PR] agents) when they stick one-or-both feet in their mouths. Mel Gibson did following the anti-Semitic diatribe he launched at the LAPD officer who busted him for DUI. When Kobe Bryant was accused of raping the assistant manager of a hotel he visited, the L.A. Laker star used PR agents in an effort to refurbish his image and retain his lucrative “endorsement persona.”

Today, 9/24/08, I think John S. McCain made a strategic mistake. I know I did. What’s Harry Levinson, the psychoanalyst most responsible for linking psychology with business, got to do with it?

Forgive me; this post is nothing if not provocative. But I cannot help myself. Just yesterday I avoided referencing the #1 spots on each ticket for president when introducing my "New & Improved" blog, and this evening a quote attributed to Barack Obama is forcing me to take portable-keyboard-in-hand again.

Welcome to my “New & Improved” blog, The Business Coach: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About What Coaches Do, and Cannot Do For You, but Didn’t Know You Could Ask. To answer the obvious question, “Why switch from ‘Success Without Distress’ to this subject?” it’ easy: I think this will be of greater interest to Psychology Today’s readers.

This seventh –and final— post as an alleged authority on the subject of “Success Without Distress,” comes close on the heels of my sixth post for a simple reason.

This post is not an instance of jumping on a bandwagon or beating a nearly dead horse. I am doing what I’ve always wanted to do since gaining a modicum of stature from my writings: Trying to disabuse the public of misconceptions concerning how, psychologically speaking, people tick.

Consider Hilary Clinton who prefaced every remark she made with “When I am President…” Where is she now?

John Edwards is going to be psychologically devastated if he thinks that after last Friday’s “performance” he is on the road to redemption.

Ashley “Kristen” Dupre, the prostitute at the center of the maelstrom surrounding Eliot Spitzer, is offered $1 million to star on a reality show. Should you care?

After watching the longest Major League All-star game in history, the feeling I was left with was sorrow for the plight of Alex Rodriguez, the MVP third baseman for the New York Yankees, who happens to be the highest paid man in baseball.