Marshall Goldsmith

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How to Lead People Who Know More Than You Do!

Marshall Goldsmith

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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Failure Is a Great Teacher!

Marshall Goldsmith

Leaders and organizations need to be nimble and flexible to changes in the industry marketplace. My friend, Dan Levitan, managing partner of Maveron, a leading venture capital firm he founded with Howard Schultz president and CEO of Starbucks, says this, Leaders may be headed for failure when: They don’t own the outcome. They are inflexible.

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Why You Should Get a Handle on Your Identity

Marshall Goldsmith

It can be influenced by the profession you enter, or the culture you grew up in, or the company you work for, or the entire industry you work in, or the people you select as your trusted friends. Feedback from others is how we shape our reflected identity. Your programmed identity has many sources.

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‘Managers as Mentors’ Celebrates Publication Anniversary

Marshall Goldsmith

With more than 150,000 copies sold, “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning,” Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith’s classic guide to successfully combining these two interrelated roles has proven to be deeply influential among professionals in virtually every industry and leadership role.

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5 Things that Matter Most in Leadership & Life

Marshall Goldsmith

Can you synthesize happiness by making lemonade from lemons and a citrus industry from lemonade? Are you making the most of relationships to expand your horizons, gain work, and grow? Happiness: Are you enlarging your sources of happiness? Are you creating happiness for others and sharing yours with friends and family?

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How to Create Effective Content Quickly

Marshall Goldsmith

Try visiting the website Quora, a question and answer website where people have posted questions about your industry and use those questions as a starting off point of what to write about. You can just write them down. Keep a list.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Himanshu Saxena – Strategic mindset, design thinker, and mindfulness practitioner, he was appointed a business coach for ‘Industry Vertical Heads’ under Prof Vijay Govindarajan at Tuck School of Business. Entrepreneurs.