Lessons from a Life of Leadership | Marshall Goldsmith | Knowledge Project 142

Marshall Goldsmith reflects on a nearly 40-year career as one of the world’s leading executive coaches, and distills down some of the most essential ideas about how to spot an exceptional leader, and become one yourself in your life and career. Goldsmith discusses how to gain confidence, motivating others, where leaders go wrong, why it’s easier to change behavior than perception, how to specifically change other people’s perceptions, the three words that kill any conversation, decision making, the relationship between intensity and consistency, and so much more.

With nearly four decades of hands-on experience, Goldsmith is the leading expert on leadership and coaching for behavioral change and has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World and the top-rated executive coach at Thinkers50. He is also the author of four books on the subject of leadership, including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and his most recent book, The Earned Life.

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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - What is leadership?
01:07 - Can anyone be a leader?
01:43 - Self-sabotaging beliefs about leadership
03:48 - How to change someone's behavior
09:55 - How to go from "achiever" to "leader"
15:13 - Should leaders always add value?
17:47 - How to motivate others
21:03 - How Marshall chooses clients
24:05 - What really matters in life
32:21 - On the importance of good company
35:49 - How to get out of a results oriented culture
41:10 - How Marshall coaches people to turn the page
42:42 - How to coach leaders to think about diversity, inclusion, and blindspots
46:00 - Why leadership is scarce in major institutions
50:23 - Where communication goes wrong and how to fix it
59:57 - On "No," "but," and "however"
1:04:19 - How to disagree without being disagreeable
1:10:09 - On making better decisions
1:13:01 - On changing your environment
1:28:27 - On having rituals for taking a breath
1:29:18 - How Marshall defines success

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