Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2019

Dorie Clark is an expert at helping people get their message across in a very crowded marketplace. A wonderful friend of mine, Dorie is a member of our 100 Coaches organization and a fantastic thinker. The author of Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out , and an Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, Dorie is a former presidential campaign spokeswoman, and a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2019

My wonderful friend Dorie Clark is a professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the author of Entrepreneurial You , Reinventing You and Stand Out , which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine. A member of our 100 Coaches organization, Dorie is a former presidential campaign spokeswoman and the New York Times described her as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.”.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2019

Chester Elton is one of today’s most influential voices in workplace trends. He is a #1 bestselling author of the books, All In, The Carrot Principle, and The Best Team Wins, which have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. Chester is also my great friend, a member of our 100 Coaches organization, and during our interview series, Chester will provide us with solutions to leaders looking to manage change, drive innovation, and lead a multi-generational workforce.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2019

A few decades ago, my friends and colleagues Frank Wagner and Chris Coffey took the lead in creating Stakeholder Centered Coaching® , a training certification to help coaches learn and apply the philosophy, principles, and practices that I had developed to help successful leaders get better. Stakeholder Centered Coaching® has a remarkable track record of success as measured by those who work with the leader and assess their level of improvement through our mini-survey tool.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2019

Chris Coffey, who along with Frank Wagner leads the Stakeholder Centered Coaching® certification in the U.S., has trained thousands of coaches. Chris provides a rare combination of being entertaining and dynamic while providing advice and stories from his extensive coaching experience that is both practical and applicable. He is a person that I trust to lead the training process for our behavioral coaches.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

My great friend, Chris Cuomo, journalist and news anchor on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, has some ideas about a concept I use in my coaching. I call it “showtime.” What it means to me is exemplified by some of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met. These great leaders show up rain or shine. They don’t complain and whine, but like a kid on Broadway show up and do their part.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Recently I spent some time with my great friend Dr. Steven Berglas. Steven is an executive coach and management consultant who spent twenty-five years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and had a private psychotherapy practice in Boston. He is the author of five amazing books, including his most recent Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Marshall Goldsmith. At one meeting of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation, I asked Peter, “You have written so much about mission—what is your mission?”. Peter replied, “To help other people achieve their goals—assuming that they are not immoral or unethical!”. Along with his brilliance, Peter was a simple and humble man who wanted to help others achieve their goals.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

One of the foremost authorities on career guidance, my good friend Dr. Steven Berglas has a new book out, Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt. With this new book, Steve shows us how to find passion and renewed energy through our work. I’m excited about this topic, so I interviewed him recently. Below is an excerpt from our interview in which Steve reveals how something that many of us have experienced that is often seen as a negative can be turned into a positive.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In a recent interview with my great friend Steve Berglas , we talked about his work teaching people how to deal with their errors, their screw ups. Steve is an expert on this. An executive coach and management consultant who spent twenty-five years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry had a private psychotherapy practice in Boston, Steve is the author of five amazing books, including his most recent Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Fear of approval is a huge fear for many people and it can really hold us back. My great friend, Steve Berglas, one of the foremost authorities on career guidance, explores this challenge and what we can do about it in his new book, Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt. Recently, I met with Steve and we talked about this and many other subjects.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In the final part of our interview, my good friend Dr. Steven Berglas , one of the foremost authorities on career guidance and author of the recently published book, Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt , talk about a counterintuitive idea: treating the waiter like a customer. Most of us think, “I’m paying the bill, I’m the customer, they should take care of me.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Dr. Steven Berglas is my good friend and one of the foremost authorities on career guidance. Steve recently published a new book, Stay Hungry and Kick Burnout in the Butt. In the book, he talks about the pursuit of wealth and happiness. I love his take on this idea and am happy to share it with you! Following is a brief excerpt from our interview.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Nearly 40 years ago, when I first started coaching, when the organization said you needed a coach, it was not a good sign. Often executives were assigned an executive coach or a life coach because they had a problem or “issues”. So, the payment method that we use in Stakeholder Centered Coaching – being paid only for results –let people know that we were either crazy or that we really believed this process works.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It does in Stakeholder Centered Coaching®. In fact it’s critical! In my role as an executive educator, I’ve been directly and indirectly responsible for training thousands of coaches in the Stakeholder Centered Coaching process. Long ago, I trained my good friend Chris Coffey , who along with Frank Wagner leads the Stakeholder Centered Coaching certification in the U.S. and has now trained thousands of coaches himself.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Dear Friends, Greetings from Rancho Santa Fe! I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! This is an amazing group of talented people. For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. A couple of years ago, I attended a program led by my wonderful friend Ayse Birsel, one of the world’s top designers, called Design the Life You Love.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

What are some of the more common reasons leaders, especially leaders of startups, fail? And, how can we learn from failure and become even more successful because of the experience? My friend, Dan Levitan, managing partner of Maveron, a leading venture capital firm he founded with Howard Schultz president and CEO of Starbucks, says this, Leaders may be headed for failure when: They don’t own the outcome.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Recently, I interviewed my friend Dan Levitan, venture capitalist and managing partner of Maveron. I’ve enjoyed working with Dan over the last few years not just because Dan is a great person and leader, but also because, Dan is very different than most of my other clients. Most of my clients are in big corporations or large non-profits so what I learn from them is based on their perspectives as leaders of large organizations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Dear readers! This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). You can see the article here: [link]. BY MARK THOMPSON [link]. This blog post is part of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change. The No. 1 priority for the highest achievers today is to lead a personal and professional transformation for themselves and their teams.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

One of my coaching clients is Dan Levitan, managing partner of the venture capital firm Maveron. Dan is different that most of my coaching clients who are mostly leaders of big corporations. I’ve learned a lot from coaching Dan, including the importance of taking risks. Many of us have been brought up to never fail. We are taught to believe that failure is bad!

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Do you recognize the patterns that lead to success? My friend Dan Levitan, venture capitalist and managing partner of Maveron does. He’s been the successful backer of such companies as eBay, Zulily, and Allbirds. Personally, I find what Dan does fascinating! He recognizes the patterns of incredibly driven, consumer-centric entrepreneurs and it has lead to some amazing successes.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

The ever-increasing presence of knowledge workers (people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does) presents challenges to modern-day leaders that their counterparts in years gone by were not called to address. The main challenge is: “How do you help your team members achieve their goals when you – as a leader – are not an expert on the topic?”.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

Most of us have difficulty articulating our struggles in a public forum, especially in the presence of our boss and peers. This probably stems from history we may have with bosses who said things like: “Don’t come to me with a problem, come to me with a solution!”. When you think about it this creates exactly the opposite of the environment an effective leader wants.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

Every leader has to start somewhere. This is just the fact of the matter. And, another fact? Not every leader, even some of the greatest leaders of our time, start off with flying colors. Take my good friend Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford. Alan led the epic turnaround of the Ford Motor Company. This incredible story is told in the Wall Street Journal bestseller, American Icon.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Leaders often fall into the trap that they “need to delegate” more. For some reason, they’ve been led to believe that delegation is always a good thing. It’s not! If you delegate to someone who isn’t ready for the task or to someone who doesn’t want the responsibility, you will have a disaster on your hands. So, how can you do a better job of delegating?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

(Of my 137 blogs, this one currently has the most ‘likes’ I hope that you like it as well!). One of my favorite stories is a lesson about taking responsibility for our own lives. It is about learning to respond rather than react when we are confronted by “life”. I heard this simple Buddhist story many years ago, and it goes like this: A young farmer paddled his boat vigorously up river.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Every once in a while, I run across someone who doesn’t want to change. How do I motivate them to change when they don’t want to? What do I do to convince them that the change is good for them? Nothing! Have you ever tried to change the behavior of an adult who had absolutely no interest in changing? How much luck did you have with your attempts at this “religious conversion”?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Power is an interesting concept when leading and working within organizations. Power is not always just as it appears on the organizational chart! Just because someone’s box is higher up on the chart does not always mean that they have the most power. For example, take the following case study: One person is a senior vice president, two levels down from the CEO.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

By Marshall Goldsmith, Alan Mulally & Sam Shriver / Training Industry Magazine Fall 2016. Peter Drucker presented a very simple definition: “Knowledge Workers are people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does.” Fundamentally, the ever-increasing presence of the Knowledge Worker threatens to render our traditional assumptions about top-down leadership obsolete.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

It’s an age-old question: Are we influenced more by nature or nurture? Applied to leadership, the question becomes: Are great leaders born or made? It’s one of the most frequently asked questions in leadership development. Let’s start with the definition of “leader.” My good friend and mentor, Dr. Paul Hersey, defined leadership as “working with and through others to achieve objectives.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Every once in a while, you have a moment of clarity, a flash of insight into what you really want, who you really want to be, how you really want to live your life. Can you recall a few of these glimpses? I’ve had three such flashes of “temporary sanity” in my life. The first was years and years ago. I broke my neck surfing. I thought I would never walk again.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Dear Friends, Greetings from Dallas to Riyadh! A few months ago I came up with the idea of mentoring 15 people at no charge. My idea was to pick 15 people to teach everything that I know. In return, these 15 would do the same thing for 15 others, for free. I called the project 15 Coaches. I was inspired to do this by the many wonderful teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Super successful people do not “coast” on their success. Over the years, I’ve worked with hundreds and hundreds of very successful people, and I’ve found they have one thing in common. They always keep challenging themselves. They always keep trying to be better. I have a tendency to want to coast. If I’m good at something, my default is to keep doing it!

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

My greatest hero is Buddha. He is my personal superhero. Like all of my other wonderful heroes, Frances Hesselbein, Peter Drucker, Alan Mulally, and Dr. Paul Hersey, Buddha was a generous teacher. The difference between the Buddha and my other heroes is that although I never met him, his teachings transcend space and time to me today and he illuminates my life thousands of years after his.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 4, 2016

A Letter from Marshall Goldsmith. Dear Friends, I am 67 years old. It is time for me to give back! Last year, I was recognized as the Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker and the #1 Executive Coach in the World. My latest book, Triggers, was a #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. This year, the editors at Amazon.com listed my books, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and Triggers as two of the top 100 leadership and success books ever written (in their ‘to read in your lifetime’

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Recently I was at a workshop with my good friend designer Ayse Birsel. Ayse has created a program that helps leaders Design the Life You Love. During the program, Ayse asked us (the participants) to list our heroes. I made my list. Here are some of the people who were on my list. Frances Hesselbein, Former Girl Scout CEO. Alan Mulally, Former Ford CEO.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Saying no is difficult for me. I want to do everything! I want to help everybody! Helping people makes me feel good. I love the variety of opportunities that I have every day, and I love the way I feel when I say yes! Unfortunately, I don’t love how I feel when I am stuck doing a job I don’t like or want to do anymore. And, I’ll tell you a secret, sometimes I feel this way!

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