Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. If the VP improved, I’d get paid and if not I told the CEO it was free. I took the job – and I took it on a pay for results basis.

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CEO Insider

JULY 24, 2019

Sree Varma is the CEO of the iSportconnect, launched in June 2010, iSportconnect has turned into one of the largest global private network of sports business executives.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

That’s according to an insightful email message that I received this week on behalf of Dr. Robyn Odegaard, CEO of Champion Performance Development , founder of the Stop The Drama! The post Nice Teams Don’t Win in Sports or Business appeared first on Women on Business. Conflict can be good.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This may sound daunting, but many organizations are embarking on the journey — from nonprofits, to professional sports teams, to healthcare organizations, to financial institutions, and more. For example, all facets of selection, promotion, and rewards must be undertaken through the lens of character.

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LDRLB

JULY 23, 2012

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. However, now that I look back from the CEO afterlife, I realize that this view need not be pervasive. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Which brings us back to those folks in the corporate driver’s seat — the CEO. Doesn’t much of a CEO’s job consist of being on the receiving end of ever-increasing floods of data that can now be gleaned in real time from inputs around the globe? CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. So, are CEOs really necessary anymore?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. On August 20, 1991, Hollis Harris, the CEO of struggling Continental Airlines told his 42,000 employees to pray for the future of the company. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 14, 2014

Your CEO walks into your office with the same urgent document that you already know about. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There was listed as a top ten business bestseller for 2013 by INC Magazine / 800 CEO Read (for the seventh consecutive year). If not, try this visual on for comparison.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 3, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Memo To: CEOs and Aspiring CEOs. Re: Your Epitaph as a CEO. This hard-driving CEO never let anything stand in the way of his insatiable quest for profit, nor has he any regrets sacrificing family time for the good of the business and the shareholders. Main menu Home.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

A top strategy professor and two highly successful CEOs found that, in companies that had successfully changed their culture, leaders had taken dramatic actions that embodied the new cultural values. The Diary of a CEO : The 33 Laws of Business and Life by Steven Bartlett Steven Bartlett has never been one to follow conventional rules.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 1, 2014

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There was listed as a top ten business bestseller for 2013 by INC Magazine / 800 CEO Read (for the seventh consecutive year). Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Sports teams with momentum go on inexplicable winning streaks while opponents can’t seem to string two wins together no matter how hard they try or how ‘talented’ their roster. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant. © 2011 In the CEO Afterlife.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Whether you are a community leader, a sports coach or the CEO of a large organization, there are character traits that must be utilized to manage effectively. Solid leadership skills are vital for those who work with and motivate others.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

I recently did a Zoom interview with the CEO of a high-tech company who directly or indirectly reminded me several times during our thirty-minute interview that he was the CEO. Love Employees and Customers More Than the Scoreboard.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. Make accountability a team sport. A CCOUNTABILITY is essential for human systems to function. And when reflecting on the question of “How well did we do?”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These world-class subject matter experts include members of advising boards, CEOs, and senior executives who are pioneers in their industries and make waves in their spaces. Much like the coach of a sports team, a leadership team coach will challenge executives to pursue their full potential. What is leadership performance coaching?

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2023

The principles are relevant for individuals, community groups, sports teams, nations and even families. Alan applied “humility, love and service leadership” to lead complex projects to impressive results at Boeing Commercial Airplanes and save Ford Motor Company when he was their CEOs.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Is There a CEO Afterlife? Those of you who have followed my blog have an idea of how I’m spending my time as a retired CEO. Looming retirement can be awfully daunting to a CEO, especially to those who define themselves by their jobs. But, not every CEO follows this trodden path. Leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 28, 2014

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There was listed as a top ten business bestseller for 2013 by INC Magazine / 800 CEO Read (for the seventh consecutive year). Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013. Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog'

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

There’s something very powerful about sports metaphors. Bob Rathbun has worked with and around some of the greatest sports stars in history, and he makes a really good point during our interview in this episode of “Aim Higher.” For sports teams, that goes from GM to coaches to players. Winning Teams.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Every Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is "on the stage" the majority of his or her work life but needs pre-performance quiet and confidential time to be creative, bounce their ideas off someone in a safe environment, and explore the unintended consequences of their future actions. CEO Schmidt asked himself, "Am I doing something wrong?"

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Many successful individuals have expressed the benefits of daily meditation in their life—such as Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO), Marc Benioff (Salesforce CEO), Andrew Cherng (Panda Express founder), Oprah Winfrey (Billionaire entrepreneur), and Meghan Markle (Duchess of Sussex). So simple, right?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 4, 2012

Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Tracy Dolgin, president and chief executive of the YES cable sports network, who says companies often promote people for doing [.].

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CEO Insider

JUNE 30, 2023

When a sports car pulled up, she feared what might happen. I heard a story recently about an elderly woman whose car broke down at 2:00 a.m. in a sketchy part of Los Angeles. Feeling hopeless, she stood by the car, crying. Could it be a creep or even worse?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Being next in line for the big job, you may understand in a few years what makes it so hard for any leader, including the CEO, to move on. Though as a CEO or leader, one may have faced an incredible amount of stress and pressure, the job naturally also came with many great benefits. You may remember how difficult it was to let go.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Whether leading an emerging growth company or a large multi-national corporation, aside from the CEO , there is arguably no position that has impact and contribution like the CHRO. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. He is a highly valued and trusted thought partner to CEO Bruce Broussar d.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Here are five ideas to help sustain a strategic leadership approach with your organization: Recognize that defining, designing and delivering strategy is a team sport. A CEO I worked with said “if a competitor got a copy of our strategic plan, it wouldn’t matter because they wouldn’t be able to execute the activities the way we do”.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It’s commonly seen in a sporting context, but brands have also capitalized on it to help communicate their journey. CEO Reed Hastings acknowledged that the company had previously been regarded with ‘mystique, envy, and fear,’ but in 2011 it was ‘just pity.’ Sporting success. Building an underdog narrative.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 4, 2014

And there will be a lesson for CEOs in watching Jackson in action. . With 70 percent of American workers (and 88 percent of workers globally) not engaged in their work largely for reasons related to poor relationships in the workplace, CEOs would be wise to take a page from Phil Jackson’s playbook. Here are some issues to explore.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. It is the same in every sport where high-performance is the ticket to the dance. Led by Satya Nadella, their CEO, they had to change the game, and change their culture quickly.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 27, 2023

Since the audience members are leaders in the health and fitness industry, the sports venue was a fitting place to talk about the difference between winning and building winning […] The post How Culture Wins appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

Basketball is a sport where the most talented teams don’t always win but those that create a culture of leadership almost always do. Every coach, player and student manager is considered a leader and they understand that they compete as a leadership team against another team of leaders. Follow me on Twitter @brianlayer.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

T HE AMERICA'S CUP is the world’s oldest international sporting trophy, first contested in 1851 when the schooner America crossed the Atlantic and beat 15 British yachts. Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton made an effort to stay behind the scenes. The trophy became known as the America’s Cup for the winning yacht in 1851.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

As the most trusted mental coach in the world of sports, Trevor Moawad has worked with many of the most dominant athletes and the savviest coaches. In what may be his edgiest page-turner to date, Lencioni thrusts his readers into a day-long conversation between rival CEOs.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Why do people all over the world enjoy participating in games and sports? Why have games and sports been going on for not just centuries, but millennia? Indeed, a good part of the joy and appeal of every sport is this immediate feedback. One of the theories is that they provide immediate feedback.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 16, 2013

I jotted down a lot of notes during the day, and I wanted to share what I thought were the 15 best nuggets of wisdom from the event: “Pay attention (to everything)” – Eric Winquist , CEO of Jama Software , who is delivering enterprise-grade software solutions to product development challenges.

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