Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

• Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

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  Successful, People, Leader

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.72, Profile Books

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• Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

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  Leadership, Inspiration, Empowering

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• What got you here won't get you there.

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  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, Profile Books

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• To help others develop, start with yourself.

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  Helping Others, Inspire, Helping

  Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence S. Lyons, Sarah McArthur (2012). “Coaching for Leadership: Writings on Leadership from the World's Greatest Coaches”, p.49, John Wiley & Sons

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• The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.

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  Practice, Understanding, Challenges

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• 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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  Real, Opportunity, Thinking

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.125, Profile Books

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• Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

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  Leader, Development, Developing

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• Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

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  Passion, Example, Followers

  "When Your Employees Know More Than You" by Marshall Goldsmith, hbr.org. July 20, 2010.

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• The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

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  Happiness, Happy, Jobs

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• Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

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  Degrees

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• After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

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  Years, Dysfunction, People

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, p.93, Profile Books

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• If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

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  Doors, People, Closing

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• Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.

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  Party, Two, People

  Marshall Goldsmith (2008). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful”, p.116, Profile Books

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• When we do what we have to do we are compliant. When we do what we choose to do we are committed.

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  Committed

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.23, Profile Books

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• To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.

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  Helping Others, Boss, Levels

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• Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

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  Want

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.134, Profile Books

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• Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

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  Advice, Pieces, Compliment

  Marshall Goldsmith (2008). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful”, p.118, Profile Books

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• The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.

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  Moving, Way, Positive Change

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• The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

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  Next Week, Finding Happiness, Way

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• Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

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  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Dedication

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.189, Profile Books

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• 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.

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  Believe, Opposites, Faces

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.24, Profile Books

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• People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

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  People, Behavior, Interest

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.29, Profile Books

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• Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

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  Skills, Achievement, Desire

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• It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.

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  Problem, Easier, Whole

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.125, Profile Books

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• Every decision that affects our lives will be made by the person who has the power to make that decision, not the 'right' person or the 'smartest' person or the 'best' person. Make peace with this fact.

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  Decision, Facts, Made

  "What I Learned About Influence From Peter Drucker" by Marshall Goldsmith, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2014.

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