Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 12, 2014

They all had profitability goals, growth goals, quality goals, customer goals, health goals and so on. Multiply each of the types of goal by three and you quickly reach a number of goals that is not only impossible to achieve, but also impossible to even remember.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Your boss outlines where the larger organization is going in terms of vision, goals, and priorities, then asks you where you think the larger organization should be going. Question two deals with your vision, goals and priorities for your part of the organization. Where are you going? What is going well?

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 17, 2014

” If you want to know why so many goal setters don’t become goal achievers, you can pore over a bunch of enlightening academic studies about goals or you can watch infomercials for 15 minutes. We all set goals to get some aspect of our lives in shape. I pointed out that Bill was a 56-year-old executive.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 2, 2016

Do you have clear goals?” Thus, if employees answer “no” when asked, “Do you have clear goals?” Answering such questions, employees seldom look within to take responsibility for their own goal-setting. There is a huge difference between “Do you have clear goals?” and “Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 29, 2015

While we believe achieving a goal will somehow make us happy, the goal line always moves slightly beyond our reach. Without goals we would never achieve anything. Frequently, we believe that happiness is a static and finite goal, within our grasp when we get that promotion, or buy that house, or find that mate, or whatever.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 31, 2014

In this article, we focus primarily on behavioral goals, such as becoming a better listener or more effective at involving team members in decisions. Much of the published research in the field of goal setting involves health-related goals … by Marshall Goldsmith and Kelly Goldsmith. What goes wrong? Ownership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Peter replied, “To help other people achieve their goals—assuming that they are not immoral or unethical!”. Along with his brilliance, he was a simple and humble man who wanted to help others achieve their goals. He not only taught me about management, he also taught me about life.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 20, 2015

Do you have clear goals?” Thus, if employees answer “no” when asked, “Do you have clear goals?” Answering such questions, employees seldom look within to take responsibility for their own goal-setting. There is a huge difference between “Do you have clear goals?” and “Did you do your best to set clear goals for yourself?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

This is our belief that happiness is a static and finite goal, within our grasp when we get that promotion, or buy that house, or find that mate, or whatever. We set a goal, and mistakenly believe that in achieving that goal we will be changed forever, happy at last. The Great Western Disease is “I’ll be happy when.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 16, 2015

If you want to know why so many goal setters don’t become goal achievers, you can pore over a bunch of enlightening academic studies about goals or you can watch these ads for 15 minutes. We all set goals to get some aspect of our lives in shape. Competing goals: I had no idea I would be so busy this year.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 11, 2016

Being triggered toward success means that instead of blocking you from your goals, you are propelled toward them. Counterproductive triggers pull us away from that goal. Pick a behavioral goal you’re pursuing: losing weight, being more patient, calling your parents once a week, etc. It may sound impossible, but it’s not.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 7, 2015

This would mean that instead of blocking us from our goals, the environment would propel us toward them. Counterproductive triggers pull us away from that goal. Pick a behavioral goal you’re pursuing: losing weight, being more patient, calling your parents once a week, etc. Sounds ideal, doesn’t it? It also sounds far-fetched.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2019

You help the client pick a couple of goals, leadership skills to work on. Chris: A student coach told me once that he was afraid the client was going to pick the wrong goal and that he thought the client should try to change something a little more challenging. I said she’s got to get approval about that goal from the boss.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 10, 2011

On the surface, 'purpose' and 'goal' seem to be similar, if not synonymous, terms. Goals are specific objectives we strive to achieve, usually within defined parameters of space, time and resources. Purpose is not about achieving a goal--it's more of a way of life. Purpose should be what the goals serve.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 2, 2012

They all had profitability goals, growth goals, quality goals, customer goals, health goals, and so on. The problem was that they were just too busy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

It also presents challenges to modern-day leaders that their counterparts in years gone by were not called to address: “How do you help your team members achieve their goals when you – as a leader– are not an expert on the topic?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Is it any wonder that we believe that in achieving the goal of said marketing campaign that we will be changed forever, happy at last? The questions are things like, “Did I do my best to set clear goals?” Another is “Did I do my best to make progress toward my goals?” This is called a TV commercial. They loved this one.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Peter replied, “To help other people achieve their goals—assuming that they are not immoral or unethical!”. Along with his brilliance, Peter was a simple and humble man who wanted to help others achieve their goals. He not only taught me about management, he also taught me about life.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 5, 2015

After all, it’s our goal, our effort, our accomplishment, and our payoff if we succeed. And another big part of why we don’t ask for help is psychic self-preservation on our part; if we fall short of our goal, we want to contain the failure to a circle of one: ourselves. How can we share the burden—and glory—with someone else?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 20, 2014

If they set a goal and announce it, they tend to do “whatever it takes” to achieve the goal. They are responsive in achieving goals that they set but resist changes that make them feel judged or manipulated. People do not need another “laundry list” of goals. I have succeeded.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 27, 2016

For instance, have I done my best to exercise, set goals, have positive interactions with others, etc. Not only that, I merely ask whether I’ve done my best to do achieve my goals – that’s a pretty soft standard. Put your goals on paper, or an excel spreadsheet. My caller listens politely, records my scores, and then we hang up.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Make progress on those goals? is called the Daily Questions and I use it every day. In fact, I pay a woman to call me up every day and ask me a series of questions that I wrote, such as: Did I do my best to be happy that day? Say or do something nice for my wife, my son, my daughter, and my grandchildren?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 19, 2016

Engaged employees translate into a productive and successful organization, which is the goal of most every leader and organization I know. If all of the employee engagement programs are working so well, why is employee engagement at an all-time low, unless that is the goal?). Every company and leader wants the answer to this “Now what?”

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

It's a different ball game if you attach a real number to that goal - a number they are aware of. If I faltered, I always told myself, "Well, I can get a credit toward my goal, and it only takes me 10 minutes." Without that measurable goal, I was much more likely to blow it off. They also get the message that you care.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 10, 2016

Did I do my best to set clear goals? Did I do my best to make progress toward goal achievement? These 6 questions are: Did I do my best to increase my happiness? Did I do my best to find meaning? Did I do my best to be engaged? Did I do my best to build positive relationships?

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

We may be very proud of our plans , which include detailed daily goals for diet, alcohol consumption, and exercise. If leadership development is not enough of a priority for the company to establish goals and track progress against those goals, it will be difficult to make any succession planning process work.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 30, 2012

The need for "stretch goals" must be balanced with reality. He became so focused on achieving his publicly stated goal that he didn't want to face the reality of the negative projections that were coming from his people. You, your team, and your organization need to make realistic projections for the future.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 4, 2015

There’s a lot of exciting new research being done in the areas of goal-achievement and depletion and why we do and don’t achieve our goals. So, given that depletion is an external trigger that can lead us not to achieve our goal of becoming the person we want to be, what do we do? How do we combat this treacherous trigger?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

The main challenge is: “How do you help your team members achieve their goals when you – as a leader – are not an expert on the topic?”. Leaders who ask their people, “What can our company do to help you grow and achieve your goals?” One thing great leaders don’t do is pretend to be an expert! This can lead to disaster in so many ways.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It’s a different ballgame if you attach a real number to that goal, and people are aware of it. Without a measurable goal, I tend to blow it off. If you track a number, it will remind other people that you are trying. It’s one thing to tell your employees or customers that you’ll spend more time with them.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

An important guideline in influencing up is to always remember your goal: making a positive difference for the organization. Successful people love getting ideas aimed at helping them achieve their goals for the future. .” We can easily become more focused on what others are doing wrong than on how we can make things better.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 15, 2011

You outline the larger organization's direction, vision, goals and priorities, and then ask direct reports where they think the organization should be going. This question surfaces the direct reports' vision, goals, and priorities. This question builds alignment and commitment to the vision. Where are you going? What is going well?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 12, 2015

We have hopes and dreams, goals and ambitions. As you contemplate these themes and set your goals for 2015, you might choose to volunteer or work on projects that make the world a better place. Most people don’t want to “do nothing’ all day. We want to feel that we are making a real difference in the world.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

The goal of each coaching engagement is to increase their organizational capacity so they can serve 100 extra children that wouldn’t otherwise have been possible if it were not for the coaching. The first is the Ethical Coach program. Applying the tools of coaching to philanthropic efforts creates a platform to really change lives.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The irony is that, although coaching works just fine with the get-thin, get-fit, get-organized goals of our New Year’s resolutions, it’s even better, practically custom-made, for interpersonal challenges—the be-nice, be-appreciative, be-caring, be-awake goals that make other people feel better, not worse, for knowing us.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2013

As a Buddhist, one of my goals is to help you have a happier life. Do you have any objection to this goal? Knowing when to let go, as I ultimately did with my uncaring client, is perhaps the hardest aspect of coaching. But once it’s clear that your message isn’t going to get across, you have but one option.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 23, 2013

After I reviewed the report of the interviews with Joe, he agreed to work on “reaching out across the company and building partnerships with colleagues” as a personal goal. He also expanded the goal to include his entire team. Joe checked in with Bruce, and both agreed that these were worthwhile goals.

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