Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Do you recognize the patterns that lead to success? He’s been the successful backer of such companies as eBay, Zulily, and Allbirds. He recognizes the patterns of incredibly driven, consumer-centric entrepreneurs and it has lead to some amazing successes. It is a true story of success, certainly.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 25, 2011

Self-confidence gives great leaders the courage they need to take their companies - and themselves - to a new level of success. A huge part of self-confidence comes from our previous success. Successful people tell themselves, "I have succeeded in the past. Successful people don't drink from a glass that is half empty.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The most successful leaders know that building your legacy starts now. Edited from Lifestorming by Marshall Goldsmith and Alan Weiss. Not next week, not next year, and not when you decide to retire, but right now! Legacy is often thought of as something left behind or handed down by a predecessor.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 1, 2017

Think about it: if you have the drive and energy to become a successful leader, it is unlikely that these traits will immediately stop when you leave your company, so you better plan for an active retirement! Next let’s think about retiring: today people live a lot longer than they used to, and they are a lot healthier at 65.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 16, 2016

One of the most dysfunctional beliefs of successful people is our contempt for simplicity and structure. For many years, despite the checklist’s proven success rate, doctors resisted it. Equals success. We believe that we are above needing structure to help us on seemingly simple tasks. It’s an interesting equation: Less me.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 31, 2015

What I’ve noticed about successful people, is that they are never completely oblivious to their environment. The challenge for most of us is to anticipate our environment even in the minor moments when we’re not trying to be successful, when we’re not “on” or trying to achieve. She may even prepare some mollifying remarks.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

One of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, "Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?" I do a lot of work on executive coaching and succession with my good friend, Jim Moore. Change the name of the process to from Succession Planning to Succession Development.

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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. It will make you smarter about specific behaviors and help you connect them directly to your behavioral successes and failures. And, starting off in the right direction will put you that much closer to success!

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 22, 2015

This might surprise you, but success is all about structure. As a matter of fact, we do not get better, we do not change our behavior, and we do not become successful without it! Successful people know all this intuitively. We tell ourselves, I’m a confident, successful adult. Order it now at Triggersthebook.com !

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 24, 2015

Following are four things successful leaders do to build environments that empower people. Successful leaders and managers today are willing to exercise their leadership in such a way that their people are empowered to make decisions, share information, and try new things.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Her best chance of success is to learn how to act like a leader before she gets the job, not after. There are a few reasons to do this: She will need the support of these key stakeholders if the "succession" is going to be a success. Your successor will learn much more if she gets input from you and her key stakeholders.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For instance, when we hear that charismatic people are successful, we try to seem charismatic (even if that’s an awkward fit for our personality). In our eagerness to succeed—perhaps the most intense type of social pressure in American society—sometimes, instead of living our real values, we adopt the values we think we’re supposed to have.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MARCH 30, 2015

So, the question becomes: How can we forecast our environment so that we are aware of its influence over us and how we can use what we learn to our success? Successful people are aware of their environment. As we experience our world – and it experiences us – we live in a circular cycle of constant change. Anticipation.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 13, 2015

It is a “magic move” that leads to success. She might make positive comments that reinforce success – but this isn’t necessary. Disciplined follow-up is the key to the success of my teaching and coaching. Order it now at Triggersthebook.com ! Life Is Good. What is this magic move called The Daily Questions Process? This works.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 24, 2011

Transferring lessons to the future - applying key learnings in a way that helps the participants in the process become better leaders and the company become more successful in meeting related challenges. Generalizing from results - understanding not just what happened, but knowing what the results mean for leaders and the company.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Recently I spent some time with my great friend Dr. Steven Berglas. Steven is an executive coach and management consultant who spent twenty-five years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and had a private psychotherapy practice in Boston.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Claiming credit that that we don’t deserve: The most annoying way to overestimate our contributions to any success. What is the number one problem of the successful executives I’ve coached over the years? Failing to give proper recognition: The inability to give praise and reward. It is Winning Too Much. Order it at Amazon.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

We believe that we are solely responsible for our own happiness and success, that positive change starts and ends within us and is neither shaped nor determined by the people around us. We convince ourselves that the game is rigged against us and refuse to play again. In other words, we stop trying. I can do it on my own.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 20, 2015

Here They Are: The Six Questions that Will Set You Up to Be Super Successful! (I would be happy to send you my questions and an article about the process. Just email me at marshall@marshallgoldsmith.com !). Since my conversation with Kelly, I’ve changed my first six questions to active questions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 8, 2011

This was an extremely bad sign of the potential for Mr. Favre having a successful retirement. The fact is, after being a huge success in a career that has brought benefits like leadership, relationships, contribution, meaning and happiness, playing mediocre golf with a bunch of old men at the country club isn't really that great.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 20, 2014

Successful people succeed for various reasons. Successful people tend to have four underlying beliefs: 1. Successful people tend to have four underlying beliefs: 1. Successful people believe that they are doing what they choose to do, because they choose to do it. This self-efficacy is a key to success.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 26, 2019

A few decades ago, my friends and colleagues Frank Wagner and Chris Coffey took the lead in creating Stakeholder Centered Coaching® , a training certification to help coaches learn and apply the philosophy, principles, and practices that I had developed to help successful leaders get better. Below is an excerpt from our interview.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For instance, in one bank that I know well almost every part of the business had a great year — except the division that lost billions of dollars and negated all of the other divisions’ success. This made life very tough for the employees in the successful divisions. So, what can we learn and how can we grow from adversity?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

And, how can we learn from failure and become even more successful because of the experience? Product fit and staying relevant to the customer is critical to success! When negative factors impact our success, we may begin to get angry because, “It wasn’t my fault,” It isn’t fair,” “They didn’t tell me.” You are an adult.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 30, 2013

My mission is to help successful leaders achieve positive change in behavior: for themselves, their people, and their teams. Research shows that successful people have a strong need for self-determination. The impact of self-determination on success does not necessarily relate to money. Successful people are committed.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 8, 2017

People often ask me: Why do top level, successful executives need a coach? They are already so successful, why would they need to get even “better”? Why shouldn’t successful executives have a coach? My coaching process doesn’t just work with the super-successful. Doesn’t having a coach mean they are not that good?

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 23, 2016

My friend, designer Ayse Birsel, recently taught me an incredibly powerful way to plan for a successful life. I believe that success is defined by each individual differently – because we have different values. For me, success is achieving my mission: helping successful people get even better. Everyone is unique.

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 25, 2014

By giving people ideas on how they can be even more successful (as opposed to visualizing a failed past), we can increase their chances of achieving this success in the future. Feed forward is especially suited to successful people. Successful people like getting ideas that are aimed at helping them achieve their goals.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

How can successful people get even better? Successful people are much more likely to accept coaching from those whom they respect and whom they see as successful. Answers to three simple questions can predict success in coaching change: 1. by Marshall Goldsmith. Three Questions. Focusing on the past can be demoralizing.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Many of our delusions come from our association with success, not failure. We get positive reinforcement from our successes and we think they are predictive of a great future. The fact that successful people tend to be delusional isn’t all bad. Our belief in our wonderfulness gives us confidence. We discredit the messenger.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

I had coached many groups of mid-level managers who were on the verge of success, but never an individual who was already very successful and needed to make a change to be blasted into the stratosphere. I was intrigued by this challenge. I took the job – and I took it on a pay for results basis.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Succession is critical. The truth is that companies that only choose wise, experienced people for this task of succession are mired in myopia. Many of the future leaders saw that the management of knowledge workers was going to be a key factor in their success. You need an “equal say” in your company’s future leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Here are four principles applied by some of the most successful (and most disruptive) leaders of the new world. Pinterest: Redefining success. For a free copy of the World Success Survey, email Thompson at Mark@MarkCThompson.com. World Bank: Diversity and inclusion as a sustainable competitive advantage. Version 2.0

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2013

Are you successful in spite of doing things that make no sense at all? One of the greatest mistakes of successful leaders is the assumption, “I behave this way, and I am successful. Therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way.” by Marshall Goldsmith. Walking under a ladder. Breaking a mirror.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Everything I share on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter is focused on my mission: helping successful leaders achieve positive lasting change in behavior, for themselves, their people, and their teams. In fact, if you do a Google search for “helping successful leaders” (make sure you do this in quotes!),

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As a rule successful human beings tend to "over-weight" our own strengths and "under-weight" our own weaknesses when evaluating others. The more successful we become, the more we can fall into the "superstition trap", which, simple stated, is, "I behave this way. I am a successful leader. Why doesn't she act like me?

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 4, 2016

For example, in my work as an external coach, I only help already successful leaders achieve positive change in behavior. Four reasons why the GE case study was a success: In the GE case study, HR professionals were coaches to high-potential leaders. This was a critical success factor. That is all I do.)

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