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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9781401301309
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1401301304
Label: Hyperion
Manufacturer: Hyperion
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: January 09, 2007
Publisher: Hyperion
Release Date: January 09, 2007
Studio: Hyperion
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Americas most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder
The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. Theyre intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmiths straightforward, jargonfree advice, its amazingly easy behavior to change.
Executives who hire Goldsmith for one-on-one coaching pay $250,000 for the privilege. With this book, his help is available for 1/10,000th of the price.
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As a personal, career, and executive coach, I recommend this book. Not only is it useful for the direct audience of executives and executives in the making, but the lessons are applicable to anyone in any aspect of life. I apply it in my coaching and recommend it to my clients.
I appreciate that Marshall has taken the reader 360 degrees in his book (as a parallel to his use of 360 Feedback as a development tool). He starts the book where the reader is or may be, where many of his clients were: successful past, teetering present, unknown future. His message - as we develop in our career and in our lives, we must continue to develop our career skills.
Marshall then lists the twenty habits that hold you back from the top in the second section of his book, with a bonus 21st habit. Section 3, however sets this book apart. This is the "what next" part of the book. Marshall sets out steps of how we can change for the better.
Goldsmith has a fun ... Read More
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This book was recommended by many of the professors in my MBA program. It describes the way that technical skills become less important as you move forward in your career. Other soft or interpersonal skills become more important. I have seen this happen in my own career path and agree with the idea.
In the book, Goldsmith outlines 20 common vices that managers have. They are simple things that we just need to stop doing in order to be even more successful. He also outlines some important things that we should be doing.
Overall the book is a great read. Points are explained clearly and there are plenty of examples. Many of them are even comical and entertaining.
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Marshall Goldsmith--author, coach, and savvy marketer--spells out the twenty most common bad habits of executives in this book, but you don't need to be an executive to benefit from his advice. Everyone could stand to take responsibility for their actions, keep a positive and generous attitude, and work on (not celebrate) their faults--which is, essentially, the message of the book.
Here, in Goldsmith's own words, are the twenty habits to avoid:
1. Winning too much: The need to win at all costs and in all situations--when it matters, when it doesn't, and when it's totally beside the point
2. Adding too much value: The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion
3. Passing judgment: The need to rate others and impose our standards on them
4. Making destructive comments: The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty
5. Starting with "No," "But," or "However": ... Read More
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In 'What Got You Here Won't Get You There', Marshall Goldsmith distills the essence of leadership derailers into 20 practical maxims. His clarity enables leaders to recognize their own behaviors. His simplicity indicates that while the actions are powerful anyone can implement them. And then Marshall provides insights into how to adopt the discipline to make the desired change by focusing on the important few things and involving others in our development. This book is a standard in executive coaching and leadership development. I recommend it to my coaching clients.
Susan Reece, PhD
CEO Dalton Spencer Consulting, Inc
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What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
I've been a raving fan of Marshall Goldsmith and his work since 1996 with the release of "The Leader of the Future", and since then I have purchased, consumed, high-lighted and shamelessly repurposed just about everything he has produced over the years. In my view, this book surpasses all that precedes it.
This is not surprising, as Marshall Goldsmith's style - highly intuitive and wise, yet personable and self-deprecating - has clearly been informed by the experience and pattern recognition gained with the passage of time. If you've been in business for any length of time, then little in this book needs explained by mountainous appendices of data: while reading, you will experience not so much a learning experience (in terms of learning a lot of new things that had never occurred to you before), than a growing recognition of how you act as a leader, and an awareness of the meaning ... Read More
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