Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

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

To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.

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

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

None of this makes sense. At best, you've spent a lot of time failing to change someone's mind. At worst, you've made an enemy, damaged a relationship, and added to your reputation for being disagreeable.

Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

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.