Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 3, 2011

In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of the rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko. Mike's score for treating colleagues with respect was dismal; in fact, out of 1,000 managers rated, he was dead last! His profit contribution was so vast that the CEO promoted him into management.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Soup : A Recipe to Nourish Your Team and Culture by Jon Gordon Soup , an inspirational business fable, shares a recipe for success filled with the essential ingredients to build a winning team and create a culture of greatness. No one sets out to be a drainer, of course. And over time, the entire culture becomes poisoned.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 15, 2009

The good news is that many of these folks manage to extract themselves from what might have otherwise been mind-numbing existences and to fly to dizzying heights of success simply by insisting on being themselves. Asking questions (respectfully of course) is a good way to learn about how other people think and what they want.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

The condition is rare but, fortunately, there appeared to be several specialists both in Germany and France who had each treated hundreds of cases during their careers. So I suggested to Gordon that we go through the revolving door, come back in, and just do it ourselves.” Make decision rules beforehand.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

I later read that Gordon Moore had said that was as likely to be adhered to as the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit. (As As usual, and luckily for Stanford, Gordon was right.). Plus he had already contributed to the business literature with his best-selling book High Output Management (1983).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Here's what we believe, surveying the landscape: It would take something like 1,000 hours — and maybe a lot longer — to recover from a forced career change. Hopefully, your job is providing that sort of development in the normal course of your day-to-day work, plus any company-sponsored training. And you may be right.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

In 2000 we started following the careers of MBA graduates from top U.S. Our study's overall finding is clear: The problem isn't only a late-career phenomenon by which women are denied the big promotion after having advanced steadily alongside men. Rather, the entire pipeline is in peril. Myth #1: It's mainly a pipeline problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The answers “I am not up to much” and “I have some time on my hands, actually” are not going to do much for your internal status and career. As famous management professor Henry Mintzberg has described, much of strategy is “ emergent.” Is my organization consistent with my strategy?

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

An expansion of the popular Situation Solutions Guide appendix to provide tips on how to deal with more of the predictable situations that executives will face in their career. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2013

It seemed as if there was never a good time for Susie Gordon and Antonio Barile to talk. You''ve done a great job of hiring new managers, keeping our existing customers, and signing up new ones, but now we need to streamline our production and improve quality to meet their expectations. She was a great manager, a great leader.

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