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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. Peter Drucker, Father of Modern Management. Richard Beckhard, World Leading Organizational Development Consultant. Peter Drucker – extremely generous, great teacher. Richard Beckhard — extremely generous, great teacher.

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Why Even Thinking About Retirement Can Be a Bad Idea

Marshall Goldsmith

People like Peter Drucker, former Girl Scouts leader Frances Hesselbein, and Warren Bennis are amazing. 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. But most do not.

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Never Stop Learning

Leading Blog

The Leader of the Future” was edited by Francis Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Beckhard. In the foreword written by Peter Drucker, he writes: “Leadership must be learned and can be learned—and this, of course, is what this book was written for and should be used for.” But if we fail to learn wee become irrelevant. “We

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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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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.