I’m a little skeptical of self-diagnosis. Most people tend to overestimate their strengths and overrate their weaknesses.
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized for the past four years as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World and the top-rated executive coach at the Thinkers50 ceremony in London. His newest book, Triggers, is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times #1 Bestseller. Dr. Goldsmith is the author or editor of 35 books, which have sold over two million copies, been translated into 30 languages and become bestsellers in 12 countries. Along with Triggers, he has written the New York Times bestsellers MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There – a Wall Street Journal #1 business book, winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year and one of the Nielsen Bookscan top five bestselling management books in the past ten years.Marshall’s professional acknowledgments include: Harvard Business Review and Best Practices Institute – World’s #1 Leadership Thinker, Global Gurus, INC and Fast Company magazines – World’s #1 Executive Coach, Institute for Management Studies – Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek – 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal – top ten executive educators, Economist (UK) – most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources – Fellow of the Academy (America’s top HR award), World HRD Congress (India) – global leader in HR thinking. His work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field.Dr. Goldsmith’s Ph.D. is from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management where he was the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. He is one of a select few executive advisors who has worked with over 150 major CEOs and their management teams. He served on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years. He has been a volunteer teacher for US Army Generals, Navy Admirals, Girl Scout executives, International and American Red Cross leaders – where he was a National Volunteer of the Year.Marshall’s other books include: Succession: Are You Ready? – a WSJ bestseller, The Leader of the Future - a BusinessWeek bestseller. Three of his books have been American Library Association – Choice Award winners for best academic business books of the year.
I’m a little skeptical of self-diagnosis. Most people tend to overestimate their strengths and overrate their weaknesses.
Some bad habits are hard to admit to ourselves, but if you get a little nudge of self-recognition, that’s a good start. Even better is to admit it might be a problem.
The higher up you go in the organization, the more your problems are behavioral. You’re smart, you’re up-to-date, you know the technical aspects of your job, but often you may lack some important people skills and it’s hindering your success.
It is extremely difficult for successful people to listen to other people tell them something that they already know without communicating somehow that (a) they already knew it and (b) they know a better way.
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