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What Type of a Leader Do You Want to Be?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2017/06/15/what-type-of-leader-do-you-want-to-be/?sh=50fc67020d33

How Can We Motivate Others?

People will do something only if doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values. … Read More

WHAT’S STOPPING YOU FROM CREATING YOUR OWN LIFE?

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment (Currency 2022, pp.15-34). One of Peter Drucker’s valedictory insights before he died at age ninety-five in 2005 said as much: In a few hundred years, when the history of … Read More

Mindset and School Achievement (Marva Collins)

Dweck, Carol. Mindset – Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential (pp. 77-224). Little, Brown Book Group. Kindle Edition. Here’s how students with the fixed mindset explained their poor grades. Many maligned their abilities: “I am … Read More

HOW CAN WE CHANGE FOR THE BETTER

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Profile Books, Ltd. 2013, pp. 134-218). In the following section we learn a seven-step method for changing our interpersonal relationships and … Read More

Reputation

Marshall Goldsmith. Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It (Kindle Locations 1027-1288). Hyperion. Kindle Edition. Reputation is where you add up who you are (identity) and what you’ve done … Read More

Polonius’s Advice to Laertes

from Hamlet (1603) by William Shakespeare Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, And you are stay’d for. There—my blessing with thee! And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give … Read More

Goal obsession

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Kindle Location 1807). Hyperion. Kindle Edition. The Twenty-First Habit: Goal Obsession By itself, goal obsession is not a flaw. Unlike adding … Read More

Winning Too Much

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Kindle Location 838). Hyperion. Kindle Edition. Winning too much is easily the most common behavioral problem that I observe in successful … Read More

The Twenty Habits – What to Stop

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Kindle Location 666). Hyperion. Kindle Edition SECTION TWO, CHAPTER 4: Knowing What to Stop Among the myriad wise things I have … Read More