Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

To find out how you come across at work, check in with the people at home. by Marshall Goldsmith. Remember the character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street? Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of this rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 4, 2016

Wondering how to start? You know this. So, why not take the time now to visit your goals and think about what you really want to change. If you do, you will make 2016 your best year ever. Try this exercise. It one of my favorites and I teach it in most of my classes. First, take a deep breath. Now take a deeper breath.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 29, 2016

By Marshall Goldsmith, Alan Mulally & Sam Shriver / Training Industry Magazine Fall 2016. Peter Drucker presented a very simple definition: “Knowledge Workers are people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 2, 2015

When I visited my barber, I’d give specific instructions on how to cut my hair. I’d smooth the hairs forward from back to front, then curve them to a point in the middle of my forehead, forming a pattern that looked vaguely like a laurel wreath. I could have panicked and put on a hat for a few weeks, waiting for the strands to grow back.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 30, 2015

Let’s take a closer look at how to forecast our environment. If we did, we wouldn’t be blindsided by our environment so often. Yet, once we acknowledge its power over us, we realize that forecasting the environment is necessary if we are going to achieve our goals. Anticipation. Successful people are aware of their environment.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Unfortunately, I don’t love how I feel when I am stuck doing a job I don’t like or want to do anymore. Saying no is difficult for me. I want to do everything! I want to help everybody! Helping people makes me feel good. I love the variety of opportunities that I have every day, and I love the way I feel when I say yes!

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 27, 2016

For several years, I’ve performed what some might consider an unusual daily ritual. At a pre-arranged time, I get a phone call from a person who I have hired solely for the purpose of listening to me report my scores on a brief self-test. The questions, which I wrote myself, function as a simple checklist of my main priorities.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

One of my coaching clients is Dan Levitan, managing partner of the venture capital firm Maveron. Dan is different that most of my coaching clients who are mostly leaders of big corporations. I’ve learned a lot from coaching Dan, including the importance of taking risks. Many of us have been brought up to never fail.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Recently, I interviewed my friend Dan Levitan, venture capitalist and managing partner of Maveron. I’ve enjoyed working with Dan over the last few years not just because Dan is a great person and leader, but also because, Dan is very different than most of my other clients.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Every once in a while, you have a moment of clarity, a flash of insight into what you really want, who you really want to be, how you really want to live your life. Can you recall a few of these glimpses? I’ve had three such flashes of “temporary sanity” in my life. The first was years and years ago. I broke my neck surfing.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 14, 2015

I asked, “How was your day?”. Randy was a wonderful coaching client, the CEO of a large service firm and an incredibly cheerful guy. Having dinner with him was usually great fun, but it wasn’t on this particular night. Randy approached the table and greeted me with a weary smile. He looked exhausted. He replied, “Which part?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Feedback is very useful for telling us “where we are.” Without it, I couldn’t work with my clients. I wouldn’t know what the people around my client think about what he or she needs to change. Likewise, without feedback, we wouldn’t know if were getting better or worse.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Our environment is full of triggers! Smells, sounds, sights barrage us constantly and can affect our actions in both our personal and professional lives. Some triggers are so powerful they can keep us from focusing on making meaningful change, and we unknowingly become a creation of the world around us rather than who we want to be.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

We all work with someone who makes us absolutely crazy. If you're sick of all the time and energy you waste on these jerks, here's what to do instead.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 18, 2015

Dear Followers: I’m excited that my new book Triggers is finally published! Order it now at Amazon! Life Is Good. — Marshall. In my travels, I run across thousands of people all over the world who aren’t happy. In fact, some of them are downright miserable. It’s hard to be an engaged, productive person at work if you’re not happy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Once you have determined when to tell your successor he is next in line for the position, you will have to figure out how to let his colleagues know of your decision. Coach your successor on how to handle each of his key stakeholders. Many of these executives may well have thought that they had a chance at the job! individually.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 1, 2011

Do you have any suggestions on how to best handle this tough situation? Q: Our company has had a terrible year because one of our divisions completely tanked. Although my division had a fantastic year, corporate cutbacks mean that I have to lay off some great people. A: Your situation is, unfortunately, very common this year.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 31, 2013

MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get It Back When You Lose It – Hyperion 2010. . · Coaching for Leadership: Writings on Leadership from the World’s Greatest Coaches – Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer 2012. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There In Sales – McGraw Hill 2010. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – Hyperion 2007.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Last week, I shared with you how to get a handle on your identity. To understand how you are relating to any activity, person, place, or thing, you need to understand your identity—who you are. We can learn how to get Mojo, how to keep it, and how we get it back if we lose it. Because your Mojo depends on it.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Here's how to find out if you're encouraging the suck ups in your office. If everyone hates suck-ups, why do they proliferate in the workplace? Because often we unwittingly goad them on.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

When leaders think they're improving the quality of other people's good ideas, they're often just trying to prove how smart they are. Here's how to avoid adding "too much value."

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

After corporate meltdowns, it is amazing how many people claim that they knew there could be huge problems. It is even more amazing how few people effectively expressed these concerns before the problems were reported in the news. As Peter Drucker has said, “The leader of the past knew how to tell.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

As an executive educator, who helps successful leaders achieve a positive change in behavior, I, in a way, teach people how to act. I want to help leaders learn how to be great performers, but I never believe that they should be phonies. How can I, as a coach, understand the difference? When is acting being phony?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 22, 2014

How to Get Ahead When Life Isn’t Fair. A whole lot of people who know how to suck up. It gives us the momentum, even the courage, to go beyond understanding what we need to do to change and actually doing what we need to do to change,because in engaging in the follow-up process, we are changing! December 16, 2014. Series Playlists.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 8, 2013

As an executive educator, who helps successful leaders achieve a positive change in behavior, I, in a way, teach people how to act. I want to help leaders learn how to be great performers, but I never believe that they should be phonies or unreal. How can I, as a coach, understand the difference? It wasn’t him.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Coaching is a “how to get there” process, not a “where to go” process. The manager should talk with the review team and collect suggestions on how to improve in key areas. The person has been written off by the company. The person lacks intelligence or skills to do the job. Getting Started.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Here's how to identify your superstitions -- and keep them from getting in your. Think you're too smart for silly superstitions? Not so fast. Many execs have irrational beliefs about their success.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

You know, someone who tells you what to do, how to do it, and when to do it? This style of leadership is based on the old model of “authoritative leader” in which the leader plays the role of “boss” and tells employees what to do and how to do it. Someone who seems to have all the answers – even when they’re not asked! It is epidemic.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Determining exactly how to turn these challenges into opportunities keeps many CEOs awake at night. New business demands dictate the need for change but do not provide a framework for how to create the change. Focus on internal and external factors. . Leadership development efforts should be internally focused and externally aware.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

Wanting to learn from this experience, Alan delved into learning about management and leadership and started to understand how to be a better leader. It’s about working together.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 2, 2012

Begin a regular monthly follow-up process in which each team member asks each other member for suggestions on how to continue their improvement based on their behavior the previous month. When asking for input the rules are that the person receiving the ideas cannot judge or critique the ideas.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

How to Ensure Effective Delegation. His direct reports didn’t need to be told what to do or how to do it in terms of technical details. They needed to know how their work was fitting into the larger strategy of the corporation and how their efforts were aligned with their peers both in the division and across the company.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. Building Partnerships. A Final Note to All CEOs.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 3, 2015

Our odds of success improve because I’m with the client every step of the way, telling him or her how to stay on track and not regress to a former self. We don’t know how to execute a change. If my clients succeed in achieving this positive change—as judged by their stakeholders—I get paid. But simple is far from easy.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Drucker has said, “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” And, 95 percent of the leaders who ask for feedback and engage in frequent follow-up are perceived as much more effective.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 4, 2013

One of my favorite Peter Drucker quotes is, “The leader of the past knew how to tell – the leader of the future will know how to ask.” It is hard to tell people who already know more about their work than we do what to do and how to do it. ” My first suggestion for you is simple. Start asking.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 2, 2016

You’ll learn how to meet the performance requirements of the current business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it (two fundamentally different management challenges that are hard to do simultaneously).

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