Marshall Goldsmith

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The Success Delusion

Marshall Goldsmith

The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion. I am successful. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way. Our belief in ourselves helps us become successful. I behave this way. Why We Resist Change.

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Self-Confidence and Success

Marshall Goldsmith

Self-confidence gives great leaders the courage they need to take their companies - and themselves - to a new level of success. A huge part of self-confidence comes from our previous success. Successful people tell themselves, "I have succeeded in the past. Successful people don't drink from a glass that is half empty.

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The Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog

Marshall Goldsmith

The series will incorporate learnings from my 38 years of experience with top executives, as well as material from my previous research, articles and books, including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, MOJO, Coaching for Leadership , and Succession: Are You Ready? Each video will have an accompanying written blog.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Listen

Marshall Goldsmith

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art. Let’s explore this art of listening a bit further.

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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. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. I was intrigued by this challenge.

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Go for It, Brett; Retiring Successfully Is Harder Than It Looks

Marshall Goldsmith

This was an extremely bad sign of the potential for Mr. Favre having a successful retirement. The fact is, after being a huge success in a career that has brought benefits like leadership, relationships, contribution, meaning and happiness, playing mediocre golf with a bunch of old men at the country club isn't really that great.

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What Does Uncoachable (and Unchangeable) Look Like?

Marshall Goldsmith

This successful adult has no interest in changing. He had a fun, successful company and people liked the work, but feedback said that the boss played favorites in the way he compensated people. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.