Marshall Goldsmith

article thumbnail

How to Lead People Who Know More Than You Do!

Marshall Goldsmith

By Marshall Goldsmith, Alan Mulally & Sam Shriver / Training Industry Magazine Fall 2016. Peter Drucker presented a very simple definition: “Knowledge Workers are people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does.”

Drucker 110
article thumbnail

Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Non-profit CEOs. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

8 Steps to Super Charge Your Career!

Marshall Goldsmith

Thirty years ago, no CEO or executive would admit to having a coach. Today, many CEOs share their experience with the world. For instance 27 CEOs endorsed my book Triggers. My partners and I have trained hundreds of external and internal coaches who work with people at all levels. They would have been ashamed!

Career 79
article thumbnail

Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

And more recently in New York City where we spent two days with two of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein and Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, and where they were formally trained in Stakeholder Centered Coaching by Dr. Frank Wagner, Chris Coffey, and Will Linssen. It is time now to announce the second cohort.

article thumbnail

If They Understand, They Will Do

Marshall Goldsmith

I recently had the privilege of working with the CEO and over 2,000 of the top leaders in one of the world’s most admired companies. All were trained to respond to co-workers on their feedback using a very simple follow-up process. All were trained to respond to co-workers on their feedback using a very simple follow-up process.

article thumbnail

Their Commitment Might Mean More Than Our Insight

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders, especially technically trained leaders, often get so enamored with sharing insights aimed at improving the quality of an idea that they forget about the impact these insights might have on their employees’ commitment to execute the idea. Employee Engagement Leadership'

article thumbnail

Don’t Delegate More – Delegate More Effectively

Marshall Goldsmith

The CEO naively believed that his employees would always rise to the occasion and see the value of their learning through mistakes they made. In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling. Another advantage was that his direct reports were getting on-the-job training that could help them take on larger responsibilities in the future.