Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The original study, published in 2004, included 86,000 people. And, this is why I call leadership a “contact sport”. Leadership Is a Contact Sport is a leadership development model that has worked for hundreds of thousands of people. We now have research from 250,000 people who confirm that this model works. How does it work?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

See “Leadership Is a Contact Sport,” by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan, s+b, Fall 2004.) My partner, Howard Morgan, and I recently completed a study of more than 11,000 managers in eight major corporations. We looked at the impact of leadership development programs in changing executive behavior.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 19, 2015

I’m excited to report that many years later I outlined the complete methodology, statistical results, companies involved, and my conclusions about follow-up in an article entitled, “Leadership Is a Contact Sport” written with Howard Morgan and published in Strategy+Business, Fall 2004.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Howard Morgan and I recently published an article entitled “Leadership Is a Contact Sport” in the fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business that involved over 86,000 respondents from eight major corporations. The training that they attended produced no more change than staying home and watching sitcoms.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Howard Morgan and I published an article titled “Leadership Is a Contact Sport” in the fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business that involved more than 86,000 respondents from eight major corporations. The training that they attended produced no more change than staying home and watching sitcoms.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Goldsmith in strategy+business, Fall 2004. References. 1 For a study on the effectiveness of this process with internal coaches in GE Financial Services, see “Leveraging HR: How to Develop Leaders in ‘Real Time’, in Human Resources in the 21st Century, M. Gandossy and M. Goldsmith, eds., Wiley, 2003. 2 “Leadership is a Contact Sport”, H.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

Research reported in the Fall 2004 issue of Strategy+Business shows that the long-term follow-up and involvement of coworkers tends to be highly correlated with positive change in the perceived effectiveness of leaders. Coworkers are no different from anyone else.

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