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Why Even Thinking About Retirement Can Be a Bad Idea

Marshall Goldsmith

I was lucky enough to be with one of the most respected consultants in organizational change, Richard Beckhard, a couple of days before he died. I decided that I wanted to be like Dick Beckhard when I grew up. Maybe you can be just like Dick Beckhard when you grow up. It didn’t really matter. Forget about retirement.

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Be a Better Leader – Be More Like Your Heroes!

Marshall Goldsmith

Richard Beckhard, World Leading Organizational Development Consultant. Richard Beckhard — extremely generous, great teacher. Richard Beckhard taught me that while we may think it would be great to have enough money to never work again, we’d never have to wake up early, go to work, or meet deadlines again. Read more here.

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Leadership Development: Finding Organizational Calm

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– Steve Jobs Next I borrow from Beckhard who developed this simple model about team effectiveness in 1972. To obtain organizational calm at the greatest pace think of following this model of Beckhard. They were four guys who kept each other’s negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other. He uses GRPI to label it.

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Are Your Beliefs Hindering Your Success? Take This Test and Find Out!

Marshall Goldsmith

I was lucky enough to be with one of the most respected consultants in organizational change, Richard Beckhard, a couple of days before he died. I decided that I wanted to be like Dick Beckhard when I grew up. Dick was a great coach and mentor to me, as well as an inspiration for many people in our field. It didn’t really matter.

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Organizational Calm

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Next I borrow from Beckhard who developed this simple model about team effectiveness in 1972. To obtain organizational calm at the greatest pace think of following this model of Beckhard. They were four guys who kept each other’s negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other. – Steve Jobs. He uses GRPI to label it.

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Hooked on Media? Blame Your Monkey Mind!

Marshall Goldsmith

Nearly 20 years ago, I wrote an article titled “Global Communications and Communities of Choice” for The Community of the Future, a book I co-edited with Frances Hesselbein, Richard Beckhard, and Richard Schubert. It’s turned out to be a very prophetic writing on a topic about which, in this case, I wish I’d been wrong.

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