Excerpts

Excerpts

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Influencing Others

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Kindle Location 590). Hyperion. Kindle Edition. We All Obey Natural Law You can’t force people to work together. You can’t mandate

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Frances Hesselbein’s Leadership Specialty

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment (Currency, 2022, pp. 113- 115). At first glance, CEOs appear to be the ultimate generalists. But peel away the necessary but generalized leadership skills of clear communication, persuasion, and

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Feedforward

Marshall Goldsmith; Mark Reiter. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful (Kindle Locations 2944-3067). Hyperion. Kindle Edition. CHAPTER 12 Practicing Feedforward HERE’S WHERE WE ARE. You’ve identified the interpersonal habit that’s holding

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