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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

I had coached many groups of mid-level managers who were on the verge of success, but never an individual who was already very successful and needed to make a change to be blasted into the stratosphere. Since then I’ve worked with more than 150 CEOs and their management teams. Respond: Respond positively when receiving input.

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You’ve Changed! Why Didn’t They Notice?

Marshall Goldsmith

Let’s say you’re a fresh-faced manager looking at your first big crisis at work. The challenge is that just as one event doesn’t form people’s positive perceptions of you, neither will one corrective gesture reform their views of you. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Respond: Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

A pioneer in the use of customized, 360 degree feedback (confidential feedback from direct reports, peers and managers) as a leadership development tool, I’ve spent the last 30 years using feedback to help people change for the better. You want your response to be positive, simple, focused, and fast.

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“No, But, However”

Marshall Goldsmith

Stop trying to defend your position and start monitoring how many times you begin remarks with “no,” “but,” or “however.” Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. This is the moment when a serious talk about changing behavior begins.

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10 Surefire Reasons to Try Feedforward!

Marshall Goldsmith

Feed forward is a group exercise, the purpose of which is to provide individuals with suggestions for the future and to help them achieve a positive change in the behaviors as selected by them. Feed forward helps people envision and focus on a positive future, not a failed past. We can change the future. We can’t change the past.

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Rookie Talent: Avoiding a Kodak Moment

Leading Blog

During most of the 20th century Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and in 1976, had an 89% market share of photographic film sales in the United States. In 2011, Kodak made the list of Top 10 Fortune 500 Employers With Older Workers, called out for employing a disproportionately high percentage of mature workers.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Ask

Marshall Goldsmith

The reason we don’t want to give it is because our leaders and managers have power over us, our paychecks, advancement, and job security. Most of them boil down to the fact that it focuses on failures of the past not positive actions for the future. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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