Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Q: When does leadership coaching work? When will coaching aimed at changing leadership behavior be most effective? One pharmaceutical company called and asked me to coach "Dr. It only takes one ethical violation to ruin the reputation of an otherwise outstanding company. When is it a waste of time?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

My friend and colleague Vijay Gurbaxani of the Center for Digital Transformation’s Road to Reinvention: Leadership in the Digital Age executive forum on March 19 th , will be hosted on the UC Irvine campus. It is a one-day forum that will provide strategic insights to develop a roadmap for business reinvention.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 4, 2013

Great leaders encourage leadership development by openly developing themselves. In fact, organizations that do the best job of cranking out leaders tend to have CEOs like Steve Sanger who are directly and actively involved in leadership development. Michael Dell, whose company made the Hewitt list, is a perfect example.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Companies have wasted millions of dollars and countless hours of employees’ time agonizing over the wording of statements that are inscribed on plaques and hung on walls. ” Sometimes companies get creative and toss in something about “community” or “suppliers.” The corporate credo.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Our greatest challenge as leaders is not understanding the practice of leadership; it is practicing our understanding of leadership. The consistent and ongoing misassumption of almost all leadership development programs is “if they understand, they will do.” by Marshall Goldsmith. I live in California.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 12, 2011

It also doesn't take a genius to learn that occasionally people are more interested in their own advancement than the welfare of the company. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that things are not always as efficient as they could be - almost every employee has made this breakthrough discovery. Almost anyone can do that.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Fundamentally, the ever-increasing presence of the Knowledge Worker threatens to render our traditional assumptions about top-down leadership obsolete. This example demonstrates how “The Leader as Facilitator” has a Historically, “leadership” has largely been considered a top-down function.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

Alan led the epic turnaround of the Ford Motor Company. I highly recommend you read it if you want to learn about great leadership – and enjoy a thrilling page turner while you are at it! Alan’s story at Ford is a success story, but it wasn’t always that way for Alan on his leadership journey. It’s about working together.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lyft: Values-driven leadership: nobody does it alone. Lyft cofounder Logan Green was inspired to start his company after a trip to Africa, where he was awestruck to observe extraordinarily cooperative mass transit in Zimbabwe, despite the apparent chaos of a developing country. 1 executive coach for growth companies.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 8, 2013

As a tribute to her leadership skills, President Clinton awarded Frances with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award that can be given to a U.S. ” He finally saw the light, left the company and is now doing something he loves. There was nothing wrong with the company. Frances is also one of my best friends.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Your workers' wealth of knowledge may be worth more to your company than a paycheck is to them. In that world, the employee needed the company far more than the company needed the employee. In this world, the company may need knowledge workers far more than knowledge workers need the company.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 19, 2013

I have reviewed more than 100 custom-designed leadership profiles for major corporations – and have helped write over 50. Not only do companies say they abhor such comically servile behavior but so do individual leaders. I don’t do this in my company.” Leadership' by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 17, 2011

In fact, organizations that best develop leaders tend to have CEOs like Steve Sanger who are directly and actively involved in leadership development. This has also been confirmed by research led by Marc Effron at Hewitt Associates, who put General Mills on his latest list of the top-20 companies for leaders.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. However, as leaders in the new AT&T now realize, the old command-and-control model of leadership will not encourage the creativity and responsiveness needed to get tomorrow’s job done.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 1, 2016

Frances is the former CEO of the Girl Scouts and now chairman of the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute. Frances defines leadership as “circular,” with the leader reaching across the organization to colleagues, not down to subordinates. I have never seen Alan get down on himself, his people, or his company.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 6, 2016

Recently, during an interview with Moustafa Hamwi for his show Passion Sundays, Moustafa asked me an important question: how valuable is it for a company to invest in helping employees find their own personal passions, not just business passions? This is a great question! We all know “the corporate credo”.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

I saw an extreme example of the “empowerment is good” flaw in one of America’s largest companies. Perhaps they could learn from their mistakes when the mistakes cost thousands of dollars, but the company went bankrupt when the mistakes cost billions. The company was operating in a rapidly changing environment.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

This style of leadership is based on the old model of “authoritative leader” in which the leader plays the role of “boss” and tells employees what to do and how to do it. Let’s start with a little history about me: For over forty years I have been a student of leadership. Needless to say, I know a little about leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Our greatest challenge as leaders isn’t understanding the practice of leadership; it’s practicing our understanding of leadership. The consistent and ongoing misassumption of almost all leadership development programs is, “If they understand, they will do.” by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 23, 2013

A lot of what passes for leadership development in companies can be a waste of time. Your company taps you as a future leader. It sends you to “leadership camp,” which can last anywhere from a day to a couple of weeks. ” This flies in the face of conventional wisdom about leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

As a tribute to her leadership skills, President Clinton awarded Frances with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award that can be given to a U.S. ” He saw the light, left the company, and is now doing something he loves. There was nothing wrong with the company. I am not alone in my assessment of her talents.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The AMA Handbook of Leadership , The Organization of the Future 2 , and The Leadership Investment – all three are American Library Association – Choice award winners for academic business books of the year. His work has been recognized by nearly every professional organization in his field.

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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. Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 24, 2011

I have observed one leadership development process that builds leaders and helps companies make money at the same time - action learning. After seeing how action learning worked at GE and IBM, I am surprised that more companies don't do it. I have seen the impact that comes from using 'real' business challenges.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I was first asked this perfectly reasonable, and for me life-altering, question by a Fortune 100 company executive vice president for whose company I was preparing training sessions. I was a successful coach; I had worked with some of the best companies in the world, and nobody had ever asked me this question. It's hard to say.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2016

Almost all of the people I know who call themselves executive coaches are coaches in the area of leadership behavior. For example, a pharmaceutical company called me recently. Ask yourself, how many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of a company? I get some ridiculous requests for my approach to coaching.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 21, 2014

Reviews of summary 360-degree feedback involving thousands of leaders from more than 50 organizations have shown that when the item “Asks people what he or she can do to improve” is included in the company’s leadership inventory, it almost always falls near the bottom (if not in last place) in terms of employee satisfaction.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Sometimes people feel that they’re in the wrong job with the wrong company. Ask them, “If we shut down the company today, would you be relieved, surprised, or sad?” He had a fun, successful company and people liked the work, but feedback said that the boss played favorites in the way he compensated people.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Employees are wondering, “If the company is willing to dump me at its convenience, why shouldn’t I dump the company at my convenience?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, "Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?" Jim is the former CLO of three major companies. Here are some of our thoughts on how to make leadership succession a more relevant process in your company.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Dan’s approach to life and leadership, coming at them from a venture capitalist’s point of view, is very different. It’s a great lesson that applies to both life and leadership! It’s especially important to you as a venture capitalist, because if you don’t ever sell (exit) the company, you won’t make any money back!

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 11, 2016

In fact, organizations that do the best job of cranking out leaders today tend to have CEOs like Steve Sanger who are directly and actively involved in leadership development. His leadership example makes it hard for any leader to act arrogant or to communicate that he or she has nothing to improve upon.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 19, 2016

Every company and leader wants the answer to this “Now what?” At these sessions, incredibly smart, prepared HR professionals declare that to increase employee engagement we need more rewards, recognition, training, and empowerment in organizations, that companies need more and better programs to engage their employees.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 28, 2016

At one recent convention, I had the opportunity to listen to incredibly smart, prepared HR professionals who had done their homework about the topic of engagement and important related factors like: quality of leadership, fair compensation, recognition programs, needed training, and effectively communicated corporate values.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2011

Acommon mistake in leadership development (LD ) is the roll-out of a program that promises, 'This will make you better.' Our challenge for getting in shape--and changing leadership behavior--is not understanding, it is doing! Long-term change in leadership effectiveness requires real effort. Leaders are always 'getting there.'

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 15, 2013

We often get lost and confuse our goals with our purpose, both with our companies and our families. I will never forget teaching a leadership development session in a Fortune 500 company that not only involved executives – it involved the spouses or partners of the executives. Conduct a thorough analysis of your goals.

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