Marshall Goldsmith

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10 Surefire Reasons to Try Feedforward!

Marshall Goldsmith

It can be more productive to help people learn to be “right,” than prove they were “wrong.” This can lead to very negative – or even career-limiting – unintended consequences when applied to managers or peers. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Demonstrating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Marshall Goldsmith

Why I realize we cannot all be entrepreneurial in the sense that we can't all start our own companies, I believe we can all be entrepreneurial in terms of how we approach our own careers. He beamed at the hundreds of young people in the audience and said: "Looking back on my career, I don't feel like I have ever worked a day in my life.

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