Marshall Goldsmith

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Referent Groups and Diversity

Marshall Goldsmith

The concept of referent group can be a useful tool for understanding many differences in organizations, both on a global and local scale. As our organizations become more global and more diverse, it becomes more critical that leaders understand how different referent groups can impact behavior.

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Transformational Growth and Disruptive Change: 4 Principles to Guide You

Marshall Goldsmith

World Bank: Diversity and inclusion as a sustainable competitive advantage. Are you tapping into a diverse collection of views and backgrounds or just one homogenous group of people? How do you touch and engage a diverse workforce and diverse customers in every community you serve? Not likely. Probably not.

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Millennials Speak! 5 Future Leadership “Must Haves”

Marshall Goldsmith

What are the chances that the typical current CEO, most likely a baby boomer, is well positioned to identify all the characteristics of the organizations’ future leaders? We engaged in a multi-country research project aimed at helping global organizations understand the most important characteristics of the leader of the future.

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Are You Full of Mojo or Nojo?

Marshall Goldsmith

We see people with MOJO in every occupation and at every level of an organization. I was recently working at a health-care organization. I watched as their CEO gave awards to employees who best demonstrated their organization’s values.

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Girl Scouts: Creating 21st Century Leaders

Marshall Goldsmith

organization to ensure it remains as relevant to girls today as when it was founded in 1912. (I The organization recently released a fascinating study on girls and their aspirations to leadership, so I invited Kathy to discuss what she sees for the next generation of women leaders. We need those girls; they are 51% of the population.

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Why Not Mess Up a Good Thing?

Marshall Goldsmith

Her mandate was to transform a hidebound organization with declining membership, a reliance on 120 volunteers for every paid staff member, and an antiquated image that no longer applied to young girls of the times. Frances’s radical combination of preserving and creating inspired the organization with new purpose. The result?

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Please Read This! For Leaders & Coaches…

Marshall Goldsmith

Applicants for 15 Coaches could be other coaches, consultants, professors, teachers, HR professionals or leaders in any type of organization – anyone who feels that he or she can benefit from what I have learned in my four decades of coaching and teaching. Applications are due October 15th. Link here.).