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- How to Lead By Staying Out of the Way
- Leadership is often portrayed as a glorious and heroic pursuit, where the manager is a font of knowledge and runs the team with the deft touch of a quarterback running the two-minute drill. But the truth is often much less sexy and more humble than that. In a recent article,...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- How Not to Lose the Top Job
- Your CEO said, "You're the heir," so your succession to the C-suite seems assured. Don't start ordering office furniture just yet: Many "future CEOs" never get the position. That's because on the road to the top...
- Articles 2009-01-05
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- Marshall Goldsmith: Where Do You Get Your Mojo?
- Business author Marshall Goldsmith is working on a new book called Mojo about the one attribute that he believes all successful people share: a "positive spirit toward what we are doing now that starts on the inside and radiates to the outside." The research he's gathering for the book may...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- HBR IdeaCast: Keep Your Ideas to Yourself
- Great ideas add value to discussion, but when they come from managers, Marshall Goldsmith says, they can add too much value -- stifling the creativity and enthusiasm of the very people you need to execute the idea. Before you pitch your ideas -- or your improvements on an employee's ideas...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Sale price for Saks, Field's put at $2.5b (department stores Saks Fifth Avenue, Marshall Fields)
- SALE PRICE FOR SAKS, FIELD'S PUT AT $2.5B NEW YORK FNS -- Should Sir James Goldsmith be successful in his $21.19 billion all-paper buyout offer for B.A.T. Industries PLC, his subsequent sale of B.A.T.'s Marshall Field's and Saks Fifth Avenue retail businesses...
- Research articles 1989-07-13
- Goldsmith in hostile $21B takeover offer for B.A.T. (James Goldsmith, retail conglomerate B.A.T. Industries PLC)
- GOLDSMITH IN HOSTILE $21B TAKEOVER OFFER FOR B.A.T. LONDON FNS -- Marshall Field's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Ivey's would go on the selling block if Sir James Goldsmith's hostile 13 billion pound ($21.19 billion) takeover bid for B.A.T. Industries PLC were successful....
- Research articles 1989-07-12
- Bidding Farewell to the Baby Boomers
- Young professionals smile at the thought of opportunities likely to open up for them as a wide swath of the workforce retires in the next decade. Conventional wisdom says companies will be hard-hit as the baby boomer generation vacates key management positions to spend more time on the fairway, but...
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- What Makes a Great Leader -- Persistence or Personality?
- Managers are often advised to work on their people skills -- listening, working well with teams, flexibility. But a new study from the UK Institute of Leadership & Management has found just the opposite. Management Issues reports that ILM's research "suggested that, for chief executives, hard-nosed personal virtues such as...
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- HBR IdeaCast: Ask the Coach
- Executive coach Goldsmith advises to IdeaCast listeners on their biggest job challenges, including the changing roles of business leaders are changing, managing knowledge workers, and influencing up. Featured Guest: Marshall Goldsmith, author of the "Ask the Coach" blog on HarvardBusiness.org and the book What Got You Here...
- Blog posts 2008-02-08
- Great Job -- You're Fired!
- "Managing Through Recession 101" teaches that you use the downturn to stock up on great talent being offed by your competitors. That's superb advice -- if your company has the financial flexibility to capitalize. But let's face it, many managers don't have this option. Instead, we will...
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Why CEOs Can't Let Go - The Dark Side
- A recent post by Marshall Goldsmith - adapted from his latest book Succession: Are You Ready? - explains why it's so hard for CEOs to let go and get on with their lives. Goldsmith sites the benefits of holding a leadership position, including money, status, perks, and power. But I...
- Blog posts 2009-03-26
- Self-Stereotyping Can Damage Your Career
- Sometimes managers are just too damn self-aware. We all think about how we come across to people, but often trap ourselves in our own self-stereotypes. For example. Your boss has a reputation as a perfectionist. Your boss is perfectly aware of this reputation and has bought into it. Every...
- Blog posts 2009-07-16
- How is Your Recession Planning Coming?
- The experts disagree on the matter, but increasingly the ugly "R" word is starting to be heard about the current United States economy. But whether we enter a recession or not, it seems quite clear that the business climate ahead is as uncertain as the next minute's oil price....
- Blog posts 2007-10-27
- Managing Up, Down, Superstars, Bozos -- and Alphas
- Many people learn instinctively the importance of managing up -- that is, keeping your boss in the loop, in your corner, and under control. More difficult and subtle is the art and science of managing peers, subordinates, different generations, geniuses, and jerks. To varying degrees, all have...
- Blog posts 2007-11-09
- How to Manage Overachievers
- Overachievers are not like other employees. You need to lead them differently if you want to take advantage of all they have to offer. Here's how to keep them happy and productive. Identify the Overachiever ...
- Articles 2007-11-26
- Care and Feeding of Top Performers
- As most managers know, mediocre and poor employees take up most of your time. Your great performers -- well it's easy to let them do their thing without much guidance. A boat on a steady heading doesn't need much work at the helm. Or does it? A...
- Blog posts 2008-01-03
- BA’s Walsh Leads in T5 Blame Game
- The aftershock at T5 continued this week, with each day adding fresh hell for beleaguered BA boss Willie Walsh and landlord BAA. Reports vary as to the longer-term effects of T5's catastrophic scheduling delays, computer glitches and complaints on both businesses. But the cost, according to BA,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- How Your Stuff Reveals Your True Self
- It's all too easy to give things away. While talking to executive coach and author Marshall Goldsmith I begin at least four sentences with 'but' -- which means I'm discounting what has just been said and revealing a streak of impatience, he says. It's one of those...
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Travel Tips from a Million-Mile Flier
- Let's just cut to the chase, shall we? Business travel sucks. It's always been difficult. Today it's horrendous. In the next few years it could be unbearable as airlines consolidate routes and pile on fees. So veteran business traveler Marshall Goldsmith checks in to Harvard Business with...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- How to Control Your Temper in High Stress Times
- The Find: Tough economic times often lead to loads of stress at work; here's how to handle negative emotions in the moment to avoid less than constructive responses like lashing out at colleagues. The Source: A conversation between leading executive coach Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Maraia, a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-09
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