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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project.

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Become an Extraordinary Leader

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker was writing about it nearly 50 years ago, and over the last decade it has come back in vogue. To display greater honesty or integrity, for instance, is a matter of following through on commitments, leading by example, demonstrating ethical resolve in adverse circumstances. The importance of strengths is hardly a new idea.

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Lessons from the Three Cups of Tea Controversy

Harvard Business Review

To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle. They must be supported by incentives, different processes, training, and often changes in how adjacent activities are carried out (as tools rarely sit in isolation).

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