Marshall Goldsmith

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Marshall Goldsmith and the Thinkers50 Leadership Award

Marshall Goldsmith

Best-selling books include: · Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning – Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2013. Articles/Blogs: · Talent Management Blog: [link]. Awards and professional acknowledgments include: · UCLA Anderson School of Management 2012 The John E. World HRD Congress – 2011 global leader in HR thinking.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. This is what I was doing in the late 1980s – advising HR departments about identifying future leaders in their companies and creating programs to form them into better leaders. I was intrigued by this challenge.

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What Does Uncoachable (and Unchangeable) Look Like?

Marshall Goldsmith

Sometimes people feel that they’re in the wrong job with the wrong company. Ask them, “If we shut down the company today, would you be relieved, surprised, or sad?” 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.

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Making Destructive Comments

Marshall Goldsmith

Do you remember the time you totally missed that really important deadline and the whole company almost went under?”). Destructive comments are an easy habit to fall into, especially among people who habitually rely on candor as a management tool. Will this comment help our company? Before speaking, ask yourself: 1.

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Behavioral Change as Simple as 1, 2, 3!

Marshall Goldsmith

The people that I coach (in agreement with their managers) work with me to determine desired leadership behavior. Not only do clients need to be clear on desired behaviors, they need to be clear (again in agreement with their managers) on key stakeholders. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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Playing Favorites

Marshall Goldsmith

I have never seen “effectively sucks up to management” on one profile. What is their contribution to the company and its customers? Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. Then why does so much sucking up go on?

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10 Surefire Reasons to Try Feedforward!

Marshall Goldsmith

I have reviewed summary 360 feedback reports from many companies. Feed forward can be a useful tool to apply with managers, peers, and team members. This can lead to very negative – or even career-limiting – unintended consequences when applied to managers or peers. Rightly or wrongly, feedback is associated with judgment.