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This fall we’re deep in the thick of helping a number of Clients plan and execute extensive multi-year implementations of leadership and culture development processes to dramatically boost customer service, product/service quality, safety, employee e... More...

My last blog post discussed some of the commitment confusion and challenges we see with many management teams we’re working with. Here are two key behaviors that send very loud, visual messages about managers’ true priorities: Visible, Felt Le... More...

A recent survey of more than 400,000 employees across various industries by the Corporate Executive Board (CEB) showed that “nearly half of executive teams lack the information they need to manage effectively because employees withhold vital input ou... More...

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. The happiest and most effective people are Leaders who may need a “therapeutic visit to Pity City” but bounce back from changes, setbacks, and problems. However, most people are Followers and wait for someon... More...

This fall we’ve been working extensively with executive teams striving to transform their cultures to boost safety, customer service, quality, and leadership at all levels. I wrote about some of this work around our Commitment Continuum in an earlier... More...

The New Brain for Business Institute Diane Marentette and Richard Trafton, Ph.D.

If you’re like me, you are probably in the middle of some change effort right now, either business or personal. If you are like most people, you also have quite a history of change efforts. Who hasn’t? What business hasn’t? To steal from Dr. Phil... More...

Our down economy, the Wall Street fiasco, and our resulting and natural old brain fear of a catastrophic future leave us in a position to ask the question: how do we do things differently going forward? If your business is down, your normal metrics a... More...

Like finding a $20 dollar bill in the pocket of a jacket you haven’t worn for a while, it’s always delightful to rediscover inspirational gems. Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with a very progressive and delightful Client to finalize a two-... More...

It’s always good to be validated by the research. Thankfully, we did not see companies we work with contracting their recognition efforts in the recession. Most saw the importance of continuing employee recognition programs as critical to their abili... More...

How disjointed are your HRIS systems? We’ve found the larger and more global an organization, the more likely multiple, unconnected systems are in place, whether they are full-blown HRIS systems or employee recognition programs. That doesn’t means sm... More...

Ultimately, our actions will say much more to employees about our values and our leadership skills than our words ever can. If our actions are wise, no one will care if the words on the wall are not perfect. ... by Marshall Goldsmith The corpor... More...

The best leaders may be the ones least noticed. by Marshall Goldsmith A lot of what passes for leadership development in companies can be a waste of time. See if you recognize this process. Your company taps you as a future leader. It sends you t... More...

by Marshall Goldsmith Listen to what General Mills CEO Steve Sanger recently told 90 of his colleagues: "As you all know, last year my team told me that I needed to do a better job of coaching my direct reports. I just reviewed my 360-degree feedb... More...

Adapted from Coaching for Leadership, Goldsmith, Lyons and Freas, Jossey-Bass, 2000 by Marshall Goldsmith As leaders we usually preach values involving people and teamwork, but sometimes excuse ourselves from their practice. Even more often, or... More...

by Marshall Goldsmith Providing feedback has long been considered to be an essential skill for leaders. As they strive to achieve the goals of the organization, employees need to know how they are doing. They need to know if their performance is i... More...

Why It Can Be So Hard for Successful Leaders to Change by Marshall Goldsmith Any human, in fact, any animal will tend to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we... More...

With the Chilean miners successful rescue last month, the questions around how they became trapped in the first place will lead to numerous investigative media reports and inquiries. Those stories, reports, and inquires are now emerging around the gi... More...

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Do you see the world in black and white or are you more of a “shades of grey” kind of person? Turns out, it matters in the workplace. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal discussed the topic, describing shades-of-grey people as more amb... More...

"My definition of self-actualization...when you are confused about the difference between work and play." — Ken Blanchard, leadership author and consultant Years ago I worked in a company with a powerful and emotionally intelligent CEO. A favo... More...

"Grant me the patience to continuously improve some processes, the courage to radically reengineer others, and the wisdom to know when to do either." Michael Hammer and James Champy kicked off the reengineering trend with their bestselling book, R... More...

Do you know what people want at work? If you’re not completely jaded, what do you fundamentally want at work? I was struck that in the space of a week, I read essentially the same statement from two very different sources. From Talent Management ... More...

"If you ask (people) what they want in a leader, they usually list three things: direction or vision, trustworthiness, and optimism. Like effective parents, lovers, teachers, and therapists, good leaders make people hopeful." — Warren Bennis, An Inve... More...

The “Fifties Weekend” held in and around the Wildwood Convention Center, on the Jersey Shore, lived up to the city’s namesake: a) first there was a Fri night dance MC’d by a former Philly radio personality/DJ, Jerry Blavat, “The Geeter (or was it t... More...

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