Marshall Goldsmith

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Millennials Speak! 5 Future Leadership “Must Haves”

Marshall Goldsmith

You need an “equal say” in your company’s future leadership. Those companies are much less likely to find the best and most comprehensive leadership qualities and candidates, because they are limiting their view of the world. My proof is based upon work between Accenture Consulting (with the Alliance for Strategic Leadership).

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Leaders Make Values Visible

Marshall Goldsmith

Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. When I conducted leadership training for J&J, one of its very top executives spent many hours with every class. See “Leadership Is a Contact Sport,” by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan, s+b, Fall 2004.)

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Playing Favorites

Marshall Goldsmith

There’s a reason I devote so much time and energy to identifying interpersonal challenges in successful people. I’ve reviewed hundreds of custom-designed leadership profiles. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. I have never seen “effectively sucks up to management” on one profile.

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7 Ways to Leverage Your Power at Work

Marshall Goldsmith

Sometimes when you look at the concept of power, getting out of the simplistic view of determining whose box is higher on the organizational chart and looking at power in terms of how it is outlined in Situational Leadership® as The Seven Bases of Power can be incredibly helpful when attempting to leverage power.

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Creating a Great Rest of Your Life

Marshall Goldsmith

Today, if people have the ambition and energy to achieve great success in any field, it’s unlikely that this ambition and energy will just stop when they reach 65. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. Innovation Leadership' People live a lot longer than they used to.

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Mission Control: Putting Our Purpose Above Our Goals

Marshall Goldsmith

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. Ask yourself, “What goals are consuming my time and energy?” As part of the session, executives received feedback from their partners.

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10 Surefire Reasons to Try Feedforward!

Marshall Goldsmith

Since I don’t have to worry about composing a clever reply – I can focus all of my energy on listening to the other person!”. He was also selected as the World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker in 2011. In feed forward the only reply that I am allowed to make is ‘thank you’.