Marshall Goldsmith

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8 Steps to Super Charge Your Career!

Marshall Goldsmith

The one thing you need to have a super-charged career today is – drum roll please – an executive coach. They are trying to get better or maybe to develop the next level of leadership and help them get better. It will help anyone who wants to supercharge his or her career! Doesn’t having a coach mean they are not that good?

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. It’s not easy, but I’ve developed a leadership development model that has now proven to work with thousands and thousands of people.

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5 Things that Matter Most in Leadership & Life

Marshall Goldsmith

To continue our evolution in leadership and life, we must continue to learn. This is the essence of leadership. Are you developing new and appropriate relationships for you career? Our evolutionary journey is one of accumulating power so that we can help ourselves and others. What kind of banking relationships should I create?

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Your Leadership Mission Should Fit on a T-Shirt!

Marshall Goldsmith

Peter Drucker instilled this short phrase in me, “Your mission statement should fit on a T-Shirt,” as he did with so many others, and it has guided my career for many decades. Today, most people who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. It’s your turn. What’s your mission?

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Changing Leadership Behavior

Marshall Goldsmith

We first get an agreement with our coaching clients and their managers on two key variables: 1) what are the key behaviors that will make the biggest positive change in increased leadership effectiveness and 2) who are the key stakeholders that should determine (one year later) if this change has occurred. That is just not what I do.

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The Best Leadership Advice I Ever Got

Marshall Goldsmith

At this point in my career, he was clearly the most important person in my professional life. I consistently amazed myself with my ability to judge others and see what they were doing wrong. UCLA Professor Fred Case was my advisor and head of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission - where I was doing my dissertation research.

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My Name Is Marshall Goldsmith…

Marshall Goldsmith

If you don’t already know who I am, or you’re wondering about my career as a speaker, executive coach, and best-selling author, this week’s video and written blog (my bio!) And I’m excited to ring in the New Year together! will tell you everything you need to know. Marshall’s books include: Succession: Are You Ready? –