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Dear Yet to be Born Grandchildren

Marshall Goldsmith

She then wrote this very long story about me that was published and sent to 800,000 people. In the long run, any success you achieve, if you don’t act like yourself, won’t seem real anyway. In my career, I am sort of a pioneer. I was one of the original developers of something called 360 degree feedback.

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Changing Leadership Behavior

Marshall Goldsmith

” Neither of these is a good metric for achieving a positive, long-term change in behavior. In terms of liking the coach – I have never seen a study that showed that clients’ love of a coach was highly correlated with their change in behavior. These are the people who have great careers in front of them.

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CEOs, Stop Trying to Manage the Board

Harvard Business Review

But as I learned over the course of my career, there’s a better approach with boards. In practical terms, that means not trying to stage-manage board interactions. When I took over at The Hartford, the management team took up most of our board meetings going through long slide decks. I got rid of that barrier.

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