Marshall Goldsmith

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Are You Living for the Short Term or the Long Term?

Marshall Goldsmith

In analyzing how we spend our time, whether personally or professionally, it can be helpful to consider two dimensions: short-term satisfaction and long-term benefit. can help us gauge the degree of short-term satisfaction that we get from any activity. Both have value. either at work or at home.

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Achieving Goals

Marshall Goldsmith

Today, sustaining peak performance requires a commitment to developing leaders who develop other leaders--helping people set and achieve meaningful goals for personal change. Often, however, goals are not set in a way that ensures the followthrough needed to turn great plans into successful outcomes. If only it were that simple!

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Achieve Your Goals

Marshall Goldsmith

A key to developing yourself is setting -- and achieving -- meaningful goals for personal change. Often, however, you don't set goals in a way that ensures the follow-through needed to turn great plans into successful outcomes. What is required to produce positive, long-term change in behavior? What goes wrong?

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The Five Reasons We Give Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Yet many of the roadblocks that prevent us from getting to the gym often are the same ones that thwart us in achieving any goal.Five of the most common reasons for giving up on our goals are listed below. I had no idea that this process would take so long. The optimism bias of goal setters applies to difficulty as well as time.

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The Five Reasons We Give Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Yet many of the roadblocks that prevent us from getting to the gym often are the same ones that thwart us in achieving any goal. Five of the most common reasons for giving up on our goals are listed below. I had no idea that this process would take so long. The optimism bias of goal setters applies to difficulty as well as time.

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Happy, Grumpy, Dopey, Sneezy: Which Dwarf Are You?

Marshall Goldsmith

I measure this in two dimensions: short-term satisfaction and long-term benefit. It can be just as disappointing to live our lives with no meaning or pleasure in the here and now as it can be unfulfilling to live without thought for tomorrow’s plans and goals. Both have value.

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Are You Triggered Toward Success or Doomed to Failure?

Marshall Goldsmith

This is an incredibly important question to answer, and it holds significant and long-term ramifications for those who are just starting out in their careers. 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.