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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. And, the catch is that as more is expected of you as a leader, the less time you have for development, and yet improving your leadership skills is more important than ever. This simple model for leadership development works! It’s a tricky situation.

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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

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. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport: Think

Marshall Goldsmith

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. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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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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NCAA's Leadership Failure in Governing the Commercialization of College Sports

Coaching Tip

This is not news to the university football and basketball programs that fund most of the other university-sponsored sports programs while favorably encouraging alumni to generously contribute to the general fund of each university. Source: The New York Times, August 21, 2011. College football is set to start its new season Sept.

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