Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

Several factory managers confessed that they had a hard time recruiting in-demand workers for $10-an-hour jobs. Potential workers choose more promising career paths. Source: Adam Davidson, co-founder of NPR’s “Planet Money,” a podcast and blog , in the New York Times Magazine, November 25, 2012. Related articles.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Others leave for better and more interesting career opportunities. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of hiring and development solutions including 360, team, customer service, executive talent and management development reports and assessments. Smith, copyright 2012. The media is sounding more optimistic. More information.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 16, 2013

A moderately good accountant who is great with people outside the firm and skilled at managing very smart people? But further along in your career curve, when it’s time to step up into a leadership position, you’re going to need these qualities in spades. Who would you rather have as a CFO? Not a tough choice, really.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 5, 2014

If the managers are so bad, why should anyone believe that the products are so good? You don’t enhance your career. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read. You hurt your company. Your stories may get repeated to others.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

That is, out of 1,000 managers rated, he was dead last! His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him to the company’s management committee. This should have been the apex of Mike’s young career. Mike’s score for treating direct reports and colleagues with respect was an astounding 0.1%.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. Add in the number of female CEOs at small and mid-sized companies, female upper level managers, and female entrepreneurs, and you can see that we’re actually talking about a large number. And if you’re a woman reading this, think about your career.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 7, 2013

We first get an agreement with our coaching clients and their managers on two key variables: 1) what are the key behaviors that will make the biggest positive change in increased leadership effectiveness and 2) who are the key stakeholders that should determine (one year later) if this change has occurred. 3) Collect feedback.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2012

Most sales managers could NOT do what they ask their salespeople to do. QUESTION: With these horrid stats, why do sales managers insist on, even measure, cold call activity and numbers? I am a living example of what writing can do to change a career. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Let’s look at the stats….

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

We only work with people who will be given a fair chance by their management. We do not work with leaders who have been “written off” by senior management. The people that we coach (in agreement with their managers, if they are not the CEO) work with us to determine desired leadership behavior. 3) Collect feedback.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. That’s strategic because 51% of store managers started as entry-level associates.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2014

In an interview last fall with Fortune magazine , PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi revealed that she often writes letters to her direct reports’ parents to thank them for “the gift” of their children. We have also heard about managers getting calls from their employees’ parents, who have concerns about how their kids are being treated at work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In 2012 Wired magazine included Krakauer on its list of 50 people who will change the world. It’s a relatively young field, and early on in his career Krakauer had had serious reservations about how far it could advance. On days when nothing is going right, and even Management 101 seems to be failing, focus on persistence.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Perhaps most notable was a story in Life magazine that included a photo of a Pakistani child sewing Nike-branded soccer balls, titled “Six cents an hour.” The company committed to goals of being water neutral by 2012, carbon neutral by 2017, and ultimately zero waste.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

.” A highly cited 2015 report on diversity in Silicon Valley by an Asian professional organization found that at five big tech firms (Google, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, LinkedIn, and Yahoo), Asians and Asian Americans are well represented in lower-level positions but underrepresented at management and executive levels.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Li Jiaxiang , Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine's launch events in Beijing and Shanghai).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

3M has consistently been highly ranked, often in the top 20, in Fortune magazine''s annual survey of "America''s Most Admired Corporations." He bangs his head against the wall for years, facing repeated setbacks, until management finally tells him to stop wasting time and money. How do they do it? Richard Drew is just such an engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

The distance, though, helped me hone in on what's actually important to my professional career — and which make-work activities merely provide the illusion of progress. I have nearly a dozen newspaper and magazine subscriptions, the result of alluring specials ($10 for an entire year!) Responding Like a Trained Monkey.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

The real problem is the managers who lack either the courage or the discipline required to deliver effective feedback. Managers often confuse two terms that appear to be synonymous but are actually quite different: simple and easy. Managers need to personally buy in to the value of a long-term investment in their own development.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

Through culture, organizations are able to establish and manage their sustainability goals such as social impact, environmental footprint, employee engagement, satisfaction, etc. What do you say have been the most important transformations in your career? This article first appeared in the April 2019 issue of The HR Digest magazine.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

When Amanda Pouchot was 25, she left her analyst position at McKinsey to co-found Levo League, a startup that provides young women with career advice and resources. But the biggest challenge, she writes at Fortune , was learning how to manage people. Unfortunately, as Pouchet learned, management doesn’t quite work that way.

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