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Be a Better Leader – Be More Like Your Heroes!

Marshall Goldsmith

Richard Beckhard, World Leading Organizational Development Consultant. Richard Beckhard — extremely generous, great teacher. Frances Hesselbein taught me that listening is an art, and that it is oftentimes crucial to our success to “listen first, speak last.” Paul Hersey, Co-creator of Situational Leadership®.

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Never Stop Learning

Leading Blog

Staats adds, “Success, even in a novel situation such as dance, depends on understanding the building blocks. The people we interact with are key to our success. The Leader of the Future” was edited by Francis Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Beckhard. And here’s another benefit of focusing on the process.

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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). A parallel approach to team building has been shown to help leaders build teamwork without wasting time. ’?. of the project.