December, 2016

Marshall Goldsmith

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Learn to Respond, Not React! #1 Liked Blog!

Marshall Goldsmith

(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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Motivating Someone Who Has No Motivation

Marshall Goldsmith

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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How to Lead People Who Know More Than You Do!

Marshall Goldsmith

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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7 Ways to Leverage Your Power at Work

Marshall Goldsmith

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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Disastrous at Delegating? 4 Tips to Become a Pro!

Marshall Goldsmith

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?