Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It can also drag us off course, eroding our relationships, stalling our careers and keeping us from becoming the people we want to become. Of course, it isn’t a universal panacea for all our interpersonal problems, but it has a specific utility. In some cases, conflict stimulates us to accomplish great things.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Of course, this is all wrong. Here’s an exercise to get you started: Think about who has helped you progress in your career and write down the names of 25 people who are most responsible for your success. Then, of course, be sure to thank them. Good listeners consider what they do an active process.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 3, 2015

It’s hard to initiate behavioral change, even harder to stay the course, hardest of all to make the change stick. It could be something major, such as your weight (a big one), your job (big too), or your career (even bigger). If you think I’m overstating its difficulty answer these questions: What do you want to change in your life?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Some are big winners of course, but some fail. And that has changed the way I think about helping guide people who come to me about careers. Many of us have been brought up to never fail. We are taught to believe that failure is bad! One thing that I love about what Dan does is he is in a business in which most investments fail.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 27, 2016

Of course we don’t have to wait until one of these life-changing transitions. The fact is, after being a huge success in a career that has brought benefits like leadership, relationships, contribution, meaning and happiness, playing mediocre golf with a bunch of old men at the country club isn’t really that great.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 6, 2015

He laughed and replied, “Of course!” No matter where you are in your career, it is good to think about how leaving is going to feel and what you might want to do if you did leave. I asked him, “If you knew that your business was going to radically change in one year, would you plan for this eventuality?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 23, 2013

These executives were at various stages of career and life. ” He laughed and replied, “Of course!” No matter where you are in your career, it is good to think about how leaving is going to feel. Several other CEOs in the room were hanging on to her every word. Time passes very quickly.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 11, 2016

This is an incredibly important question to answer, and it holds significant and long-term ramifications for those who are just starting out in their careers. I’m excited to share this series of short interviews with you and of course I hope you enjoy my written thoughts on the topics as well! It may sound impossible, but it’s not.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Specifically, I recall an experience I had early in my career with the old AT&T, when I was invited to corporate headquarters to speak to one of its top executives. Of course, we all know what happened in the ensuing years: AT&T deteriorated, as it neglected to adapt to a quickly evolving market.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

This should have been the apex of Mike’s young career. He was making over $4 million a year, so professional validation was coursing through his veins like jet fuel. But Mike put up equally astounding numbers with his trades. Instead, it exposed his bad side as well. He was clearly delivering financial results.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2015

Why would executives be willing to pull the rip cord on their careers rather than adapt to such a simple routine? It limits our options so that we’re not thrown off course by externalities. Yet even with their jobs on the line if they didn’t cooperate, two executives refused to change their behavior in the BPR.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 20, 2011

This should have been the apex of Mike’s career. He was making more than $4 million a year, so professional validation was coursing through his veins like jet fuel. But Mike put up equally astounding numbers with his trades. His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him to management. Instead, it exposed his bad side.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 8, 2011

The fact is, after being a huge success in a career that has brought benefits like leadership, relationships, contribution, meaning and happiness, playing mediocre golf with a bunch of old men at the country club isn't really that great. While some make the transition pretty well, for many it is a disaster. He was smiling. It is his life.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 28, 2010

They’ve spent their careers sizing up people, taking in first impressions and recalibrating them against later impressions. Of course, this doesn’t apply to me. This raises an important question: If leaders say they discourage sucking up, then why is it so prevalent in the workplace? So why does this happen? Maybe you’re right.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2014

” Of course, this mindset leads to future weight gain and the “yo-yo” effect that is unfortunately so common in dieters.When one of my high-potential leaders asked his boss, the CEO, the question, “Do I have to watch what I say and do for the rest of my career?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

They were taking four to five weeks of vacation during the course of the year. If you wore a white shirt, showed up, and met minimal expectations, you had a job for your entire career. In most corporate headquarters buildings I could have shot a cannonball down the hall at 5 p.m. and not hit anyone! Those days are gone!

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

But of course I'm going to say that, because I'm in marketing. You've built a successful career despite this "crisis of credibility." Marketing budgets are often the first to be cut. All of this can lead to a crisis of credibility, with marketing losing political power and voice in the organization.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 11, 2013

” Of course, this mindset leads to future weight gain and the “yo-yo” effect that is unfortunately so common in dieters. When one of my high-potential leaders asked his boss, the CEO, the question, “Do I have to watch what I say and do for the rest of my career?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

This should have been the apex of Mike's young career. He was making more than $4 million a year, so professional validation was coursing through his veins like jet fuel. But Mike put up astounding numbers with his trades. His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him into management. Instead, it exposed his bad side.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Taught two of the largest and most popular courses in Harvard’s history, ‘Positive Psychology’ and ‘The Psychology of Leadership.’ and The Career Playbook. He achieved consistent growth for 16 years at Sirona. Executive position with CityNet.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. and Happiness at Work.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 12, 2016

M: Of course you would say that. The commitment to make a change in behavior that will have the greatest positive affect on their performance and on their career. That is what is most rare, most difficult, and most valuable about leading people. G: I figured you might say that. You are the positive behavior change guy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

If they see personal change as a long-term investment in their own development–a process that will help them become more effective over the course of their careers–they will be much more likely to pay the short-term price needed for long-term gain. Maintenance. Now I can start eating again.

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