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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Facilitates workshops on vision, mission and values integration. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Brown Johnson – EVP, Creative Director, Sesame Workshop.

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Confronting the Pain of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Special Forces operators such as the Navy SEALs are expected to "Embrace the Suck." The former is like a runner struggling to perfect their stride after the tenth kilometer of practice; the latter is a sharp pain suggesting a torn tendon. That shouldn't surprise. Confronting pain is integral to most other elite endeavors.