Marshall Goldsmith

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Referent Groups and Diversity

Marshall Goldsmith

As our organizations become more global and more diverse, it becomes more critical that leaders understand how different referent groups can impact behavior. Our referent groups define a large part of who we are. Our primary referent group can be defined as a group that is the major source of our identity.

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Transformational Growth and Disruptive Change: 4 Principles to Guide You

Marshall Goldsmith

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). World Bank: Diversity and inclusion as a sustainable competitive advantage. Dear readers! You can see the article here: [link]. BY MARK THOMPSON [link].

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Millennials Speak! 5 Future Leadership “Must Haves”

Marshall Goldsmith

Appreciating Cultural Diversity. It means that leaders will need to do the following: a) Understand how the intelligent use of new technology can help their organizations; b) Recruit, develop, and maintain a network of technically competent people; c) Know how to make and manage investments in new technology; and.

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Girl Scouts: Creating 21st Century Leaders

Marshall Goldsmith

This isn't about choosing one leadership or management style over the other. We live in a complex society with a complex, diverse workforce, and we have a lot of very real problems to solve. The current command-and-control style of leadership is too limiting for girls. We need those girls; they are 51% of the population.

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Why Not Mess Up a Good Thing?

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances, whom Fortune magazine called the “best non-profit manager in America,” became CEO of the Girl Scouts of America in 1976. In her years as CEO, membership quadrupled and diversity tripled. In its subtle way, preserving can be transformational. One of my best friends and all-time heroes is Frances Hesselbein. The result?

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Marshall Goldsmith 15 Coaches Winners + Much More!

Marshall Goldsmith

In selecting the first 25 coaches, I have tried to achieve a great deal of diversity. Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. The 25 have come from eleven different countries.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Stew Friedman – Practice Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. World authority on project management.