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The Earned Life

In The Earned Life, pioneering leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith shows us how to live our own lives—not someone else’s version of them. The key to living the earned life, unbound by regret, requires our commitment to a habit of earning and connecting it to something greater than the isolated achievements of our personal ambition.

Taking inspiration from Buddhism, Goldsmith implores readers to accept impermanence and avoid the Great Western Disease of “I’ll be happy when…”. He offers practical advice for shedding the obstacles, especially our failures of imagination, that prevent us from creating our own lives. With this book as their guide, readers can close the gap between what they plan to achieve and what they actually get done.

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This 32 Lesson online coaching features lessons based on Marshall Goldsmith’s newest book “The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment”. In this training Goldsmith offers practical advice and exercises aimed at helping you shed the obstacles, especially the failures of imagination, that prevent you from leading a fulfilling life.

The Earned Life Online Coaching program features many of the same processes that Marshall teaches his executive clients and uses in his own personal life.

The Earned Life

In The Earned Life, pioneering leadership coach Marshall Goldsmith shows us how to live our own lives—not someone else’s version of them. The key to living the earned life, unbound by regret, requires our commitment to a habit of earning and connecting it to something greater than the isolated achievements of our personal ambition.

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Pau Gasol

Pau Gasol

President of the Gasol Foundation
2x National Basketball Association world champion
5x Olympian (3 medals)

“I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have met Marshall, to have him as part of my life an to have been able to learn from him – along with learning from the many other exceptional people in his 100 coaches community. He has played a very important role in my transition from being a professional athlete to the next chapter in my life.”

Amy Edmonson

Amy Edmonson

Professor Harvard Business School 2021 Thinkers50 #1 Most Influential Management Thinker in with World

“The Earned Life is a great addition to Marshall’s body of work. The advice in this book can help you keep on achieving and, at the same time, do a better job of finding peace and happiness in the process.”

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Aicha Evans

VP and general manager /
Fortune top ten next generation of female leaders
Intel

Marshall’s coaching invites leaders to focus relentlessly on their behavior. The leader’s behavior as well as the team’s behavior become the basis for great results and continuous improvement. This will be key to success for the connected, global, knowledge-driven companies of the future.

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Alan Mulally

Retired, former President and CEO of Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company

We were a very successful team who took our performance to the next level. With Marshall’s help we identified our two areas and went to work. We used everyone’s help and support, exceeded our improvement expectations and had fun! A team’s dedication to continuous improvement combined with Marshall’s proven process ROCKS!

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Deanna Mulligan

CEO, Fortune 50 most powerful women in business
Guardian Life

You can’t teach an old dog new tricks…without Marshall Goldsmith’s help. With his coaching, you can change your old behavior to create new outcomes.”

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David Kornberg

CEO
Express

Marshall has taught me the importance of making a positive difference in every aspect of my life. His coaching techniques and valuable lessons empower you to extract greater meaning from interpersonal relationships and provide a superior understanding of the great results that can be achieved through positive leadership.

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G. M. Rao

CEO / Indian entrepreneur of the year
GRM Group (India)

Marshall Goldsmith is a great author and world-renowned executive coach. His contribution to our group has been immense, and we have greatly benefited from his unparalleled experience and his knowledge.

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Fred Hassan

Managing director, Warburg Pincus, former CEO,
Pharmacy and Schering
Plough, chairman, Bausch & Lomb

No one can match Marshall’s massive footprint in helping people become who they want to be. He is the top thought leader in executive coaching because he drives new thinking about self-motivation. The importance of self-awareness, self-engagement and positive behavioral change is best captured in Triggers. It will help light up many lives!

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Jim Yong Kim

Twelfth president of the World Bank
World Bank

I have had the great fortune of working with Marshall for several years. He has helped me in so many ways. Triggers represents a natural progression in Marshall’s work and many of the ideas in it have already helped me and many of his other clients. As with all of his books, I know that Marshall’s focused, practical and insightful approach will help you in leadership, but even more important, it can help you in life!

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John Hammergren

CEO / Harvard Business Review 100 top performing CEOs
in the world
McKesson

We place a premium on developing strong leaders at McKesson and over the years we have relied greatly on Marshall’s leadership insights to support our executive talent development across the company.

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Regis Schultz

CEO / one of Europe’s top electrical retailers Darty Group (France)

I had the great privilege of being coached by Marshall. He has been able to trigger change in my life and help me move to the next level in leadership. He has changed my life and career.

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JP Garnier

CEO
Glaxo SmithKline – one of the world’s 20 most valuable
companies

Marshall is a great coach and teacher. He has done a lot to help both me and our high-potential leaders. His approach is practical, useful, helpful and fun!

Amy Edmonson

Amy Edmonson

Professor Harvard Business School 2021 Thinkers50 #1 Most Influential Management Thinker in with World

“The Earned Life is a great addition to Marshall’s body of work. The advice in this book can help you keep on achieving and, at the same time, do a better job of finding peace and happiness in the process.”

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Tony Marx

CEO
New York Public Library

How do we create the change we need for our organizations and for ourselves? Marshall Goldsmith is the master of helping us all find that path, avoiding the negative triggers and building upon the triggers that bring out our best.

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My mission is simple. I want to help successful people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior; for themselves, their people, and their teams. I want to help you make your life a little better. With four decades of experience helping top CEOs and executives overcome limiting beliefs and behaviors to achieve greater success, I don’t do this for fame and accolades. I do this because I love helping people!

As an executive educator and coach, I help people understand how our beliefs and the environments we operate in can trigger negative behaviors. Through simple and practical advice, I help people achieve and sustain positive behavioral change.

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