Marshall Goldsmith

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How to Lead People Who Know More Than You Do!

Marshall Goldsmith

To illustrate these challenges, we will examine how one CEO, Alan Mulally, gained well-deserved notoriety for creatively leveraging the skills of his team, the people of the Ford Motor Company and the Situational Leadership® Model to lead an incredibly successful turnaround.

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Four Simple Steps to the Life of Your Dreams!

Marshall Goldsmith

You can’t have everything, so you have to be creative to make what you want and what you need co-exist. This optimism drives our creative energy.”. First, a little background, according to Ayse, “Life, just like a design problem, is full of constraints — time, money, age, location, and circumstances.

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Avoiding the Superstition Trap

Marshall Goldsmith

His creative ideas led to groundbreaking new procedures. They were somewhat intimidated by his genius and creativity. He expressed concern that he might start listening too much and that the company might not benefit from his creative ideas. Consider Harry. He wasn’t just smart. Harry was a remarkably poor listener.

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Do You Love What You Do or Are You Living in New-Age Professional Hell?

Marshall Goldsmith

She’s extremely creative and entrepreneurial. In the new world, we don’t have to love everything that we do, but we need to find happiness and meaning in most of our professional work. One of my coaching clients, Vicky, has a mind that races at about 1,000 miles an hour.

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Are You Wasting Your Time on Values Statements?

Marshall Goldsmith

” Sometimes companies get creative and toss in something about “community” or “suppliers.” Every company wants “integrity,” “respect for people,” “quality,” “customer satisfaction,” “innovation,” and “return for shareholders.”

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

The CEO had attended the session and from what I’d said he thought I might be able to help him with a VP who, though smart, dedicated, motivated, hard-working, and creative, was also a stubborn, opinionated, know-it-all. I was intrigued by this challenge.

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Dear Yet to be Born Grandchildren

Marshall Goldsmith

If you are going to do anything creative, you have to make it up! If I look back upon what I have contributed in my career, my largest contributions have all come from stuff that I made up. No one can tell you how to do anything that hasn’t been done before. There is no guidebook. If you have an idea that sounds good – go for it!