Top 29 Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

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#5. 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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#6. Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

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#10. If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

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#11. Look to the present. The great disease of 'I will be happy when ... ' is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms. You start thinking: I'll be happy when I get that ... BMW ... promotion ... status ... money. The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

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#12. Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

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#13. What got you here won't get you there.

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#14. Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

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#15. Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

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

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#18. With problems and issues groups face- there is an enormous disconnect between understanding and doing.

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

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#21. None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.

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#22. Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

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

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#24. The best ideas are like great wines. They improve with age. But they can also go through a dumb period when they need time to settle and sink in.

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#25. The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple steps for 'getting everyone to follow your lead.'

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#26. The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.

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#27. If you know what matters to you, it's easier to commit to change. If you can't identify what matters to you, you won't know when it's being threatened. And in my experience, people only change their ways when what they truly value is threatened.

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#28. 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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#29. Mojo" is, "That positive spirit toward what we are doing now, that starts from the inside and radiates to the outside

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