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

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

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

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

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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