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born 1949 United States
Marshall Goldsmith (March 20, 1949) is an American leadership coach, the author of a number management-related books. He was cited in the Forbes.com list of The Most Influential Management Gurus (2009).
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Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
The Great Western Disease is that we fixate on the future at the expense of enjoying the life we're living now.
People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats.
Daniel Farb, Bruce Gordon (2005)
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, personal sacrifice, ongoing effort, and dedication to a process that is maintained over years.
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.
Ten years ago we had a very simple yet powerful idea—call many of the greatest thinkers in the world, ask them each to write a chapter sharing their vision for the future of leadership, and put together an edited book titled The Leader of the Future.
If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.
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