Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

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Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, personal sacrifice, ongoing effort, and dedication to a process that is maintained over years.

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

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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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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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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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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.

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The Great Western Disease is that we fixate on the future at the expense of enjoying the life we're living now.

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

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People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats.

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

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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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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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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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