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Be a Better Leader – Be More Like Your Heroes!

Marshall Goldsmith

During the program, Ayse asked us (the participants) to list our heroes. Richard Beckhard, World Leading Organizational Development Consultant. Richard Beckhard — extremely generous, great teacher. With my new project 15 Coaches. 15 Coaches is my legacy project. I made my list. Alan Mulally, Former Ford CEO.

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Giving Away All I Know – ‘Pay It Forward’!

Marshall Goldsmith

My new project is called 15 Coaches. This is my small way of honoring the many wonderful teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return – people like Frances Hesselbein, Alan Mulally, Paul Hersey, Richard Beckhard, Warren Bennis, Peter Drucker – and many more. Link here.).

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Team Building Without Time Wasting

Marshall Goldsmith

Research involving thousands of participants has shown how focused feedback and follow-up can increase leadership and customer service effectiveness (Hesselbein, Goldsmith, and Beckhard, 1996). of the project. For example, if there are seven team members, each team member will participate in six brief one-on-one dialogues.