Displaying Your Singular Empathy
Displaying Your Singular Empathy By Marshall Goldsmith One of the signs of our moral progress is the realization that other human beings are fully as human as ourselves. How often we forget this: Other people are going through the same things we are. Empathy is part of this realization: We feel what others feel. Empathy […]
Disengage from Your Past
Disengage from Your Past By Marshall Goldsmith Our lives are marked by transitions where we move from one phase to another, as we continually change who we are and become someone new. In achieving an earned life, you are constantly becoming someone new. Before you can effectively earn the next phase of your life, you […]
Write Your History of Help
An Exercise to Write Your History of Help By Marshall Goldsmith Consider all the times someone—friend, neighbor, colleague, stranger, even foe—has asked you for help. Did you — refuse them, resent them, judge them to be stupid, question their competence, or deride them behind their back for needing help? If you’re like most good people […]
Recognizing Your Needs
Recognizing Your Needs By Marshall Goldsmith Many top leaders refuse to acknowledge that their needs are often aligned with those of their employees. I have found that the Life Plan Review, or LPR, helps them confront this, because it creates an atmosphere where people can ask for help, and can understand that they are one […]
Other Benefits in Using the Life Plan Review
Other Benefits in Using the Life Plan Review By Marshall Goldsmith I set up virtual meetings to put the Life Plan Review (LPR) into practice, once the pandemic had made it impossible for people to meet in person. I had created the LIfe Plan Review by adapting the Business Plan Review that Alan Mullaly, the […]
Structure the Life Plan Review for Ease of Use
Structure the Life Plan Review for Ease of Use By Marshall Goldsmith I created the Life Plan Review (LPR) with Alan Mulally, the ex-chairman of Ford, loosely based on his Business Plan review, which he instituted at Ford and used as a way to help turn that company around back in the 1970s. The LPR […]
The Power of 100 Coaches
The Notion of 100 Coaches By Marshall Goldsmith Over the years, I’ve had many insights into teaching and coaching. I have incorporated seven particular concepts and activities into my coaching: the referent group the notion of feedforward stakeholder-centered coaching the business plan review the “what’s next” weekend daily questions building a coaches community (called 100 […]
A 1-Trick Genius Isn’t a 1-Trick Pony
A One-Trick Genius Isn’t a One-Trick Pony By Marshall Goldsmith Do not confuse “one-trick genius” (OTG) with the pejorative “one-trick pony.” The term “one-trick pony” is judgmental and denigrating, referring to people who abuse a limited skill set—whether it’s the same predictable response to every situation or one slick move on the basketball court—because they […]
What Are Your Strengths?
Specialist or Generalist? What Are Your Strengths? By Marshall Goldsmith You don’t have to be a specialist to make a mark in your field. You can be good at one certain thing and still be a generalist of sorts. People can achieve an earned life on either path. But at some point, as you build […]
Support Is Essential to Success
Support Gives You the Push You Need for Fulfillment and Reaching Goals By Marshall Goldsmith Healthy and supportive networks can improve your peace of mind, your determination, and your health. People sometimes look for support among these networks of friends and family. Sometimes they feel they lack support, or their situation isn’t understood enough for […]
