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The Five Reasons We Give Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Acknowledging that from the get-go can make a big difference in helping us stick to the plan. Yet many of the roadblocks that prevent us from getting to the gym often are the same ones that thwart us in achieving any goal.Five of the most common reasons for giving up on our goals are listed below. Understanding is easy. Doing is tough.In

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Improving Your Odds for Change

Marshall Goldsmith

You have to tell everyone exactly in what area you plan to change. Lasting goal achievement requires a lot of time, hard work, personal sacrifice, ongoing effort, and dedication to a process that is maintained over years. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. So, what are they?

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Behavioral Change as Simple as 1, 2, 3!

Marshall Goldsmith

Review what has been learned with clients and help them develop an action plan. I then ask them to come back with a plan of what they want to do. These plans need to come from them, not me. After reviewing their plans, I almost always encourage them to live up to their own commitments.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business Review

After the toppling of Dictator Ben Ali in January 2011, whose stifling reign lasted nearly a quarter century, the country faced a rocky start to a new ruling order. A sense of urgency can help leaders reach goals. It was a hopeful moment across the region and particularly in Tunisia. So did we succeed?

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

In 2011 GE, the company famous for exporting great leaders, imported one when it recruited Bill Ruh from Cisco to lead GE’s push into software and analytics. Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers.

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Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better

Harvard Business Review

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. There’s another bias at play here, too: A 2015 paper in Organization Science, summarized in this HBR article , suggests that people overestimate the amount of conflict that actually exists on diverse teams.