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Be a Better Leader – Be More Like Your Heroes!

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein, Former Girl Scout CEO. Alan Mulally, Former Ford CEO. Richard Beckhard, World Leading Organizational Development Consultant. Richard Beckhard — extremely generous, great teacher. Here are some of the people who were on my list. Paul Hersey, Co-creator of Situational Leadership®. Read more here.

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Why Even Thinking About Retirement Can Be a Bad Idea

Marshall Goldsmith

I was lucky enough to be with one of the most respected consultants in organizational change, Richard Beckhard, a couple of days before he died. I decided that I wanted to be like Dick Beckhard when I grew up. Maybe you can be just like Dick Beckhard when you grow up. It didn’t really matter. Life is good. 1-858-759-0950.

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Please Read This! For Leaders & Coaches…

Marshall Goldsmith

Over my nearly 40 years in Executive Education, I have had the privilege of working with over 200 major CEOs. We will be joined by several fantastic leaders and thinkers, including Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford. My new project is called 15 Coaches. I am going to teach 15 people everything that I know – for free.

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Never Stop Learning

Leading Blog

The Leader of the Future” was edited by Francis Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Beckhard. But if we fail to learn wee become irrelevant. “We We end up solving yesterday’s problems too late instead of tackling tomorrow’s problems before someone else does.”

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Giving Away All I Know – ‘Pay It Forward’!

Marshall Goldsmith

Over my nearly 40 years in Executive Education, I have had the privilege of working with over 200 major CEOs. We will be joined by several fantastic leaders and thinkers, including Alan Mulally, former CEO of Ford. My new project is called 15 Coaches. I am going to teach 15 people everything that I know – for free.

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Team Building Without Time Wasting

Marshall Goldsmith

Research involving thousands of participants has shown how focused feedback and follow-up can increase leadership and customer service effectiveness (Hesselbein, Goldsmith, and Beckhard, 1996). What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read.