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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. 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. This simple model for leadership development works!

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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.

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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. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Think

Marshall Goldsmith

Some people use anger as a management tool to some success. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. It can get people’s attention.

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2011: To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear. - AubreyDaniels: Famous Sports Wisdom to Use at Work. RT @openinnovation3: The New Science of Leadership: An Interview with Margaret Wheatley. Tim Milburn: Leadership Starts With You. NYT: A Changed Starbucks.

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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. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011.

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When to Ditch the Leadership Love-in

In the CEO Afterlife

In my blog of two weeks ago, entitled The Leadership Love-In [link] I reiterated the never ending need for better leadership. I also extended kudos to a handful of passionate leadership bloggers who I consider to be experts in their field (links listed below). Leadership Bloggers I follow: Mike Myatt at [link].

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