Marshall Goldsmith

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Voting ends Sept 1st for Thinkers50 Top Management Thinker Award for 2013

Marshall Goldsmith

Previous winners of the Top Management Thinker Award have included Peter Drucker (2001 & 2003), Michael Porter (2005), CK Prahalad (2007 & 2009), and Clayton Christensen (2011). Thinkers50 was launched in 2001. It is now the premier global ranking of management thinkers.

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Girl Scouts: Creating 21st Century Leaders

Marshall Goldsmith

Kathy Cloninger, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts of the USA since 2003, is in the process of transforming the venerable U.S. organization to ensure it remains as relevant to girls today as when it was founded in 1912. (I I consider one of Kathy's predecessors as CEO, Frances Hesselbein, to be the greatest leader I have ever met.)

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Coaching for Behavioral Change

Marshall Goldsmith

Wiley, 2003. FT Prentice Hall, 2003. Goldsmith, eds., 2 “Leadership is a Contact Sport”, H. Morgan and M. Goldsmith in strategy+business, Fall 2004. 3 This process is explained in more detail in “Recruiting Supportive Coaches: A Key to Achieving Positive Behavioral Change” in The Many Facets of Leadership, M. Goldsmith, V. Kaye and A.