Marshall Goldsmith
28 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 9 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 12, 2022 by Marshall Goldsmith · said 8 times in 2 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2022 5 mentions in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Jul 12, 2022
Goldsmith: Treat decision-makers as customers who do not have to buy
“If I need to influence you, and you have the power to make the decision, and I need to influence you to make a positive difference, there is one word to describe you. That word is called customer. There's one word to describe me. That word is called salesperso…”
Jul 12, 2022
Goldsmith: Leaders should evaluate comments by whether they increase commitment
“By the way, if you have to ask at work, I'll give you a technique. Breathe. Breathe. Is my comment going to improve this other person's commitment? If the answer is yes, fine. If the answer is no, breathe again. Is it worth saying? Sometimes it is. Sometimes i…”
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Goldsmith: Starting sentences with 'no' or 'but' erases what others said
“Just never start a sentence with three words, no, but, or however. If you talk to me and I say no, First word, no. Shut, you're wrong. But what does but mean? Disregard everything you said. Just erases whatever you said. A terrible habit.”
Jul 12, 2022
Goldsmith: The number one flaw in high achievers is compulsively winning
“What's the number one problem of all the successful people you've coached over the years? My answer, winning too much. What does that mean? If it's important, we want to win. If it's meaningful, we want to win. If it's critical, we want to win. If it's trivial…”
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Goldsmith: CEOs who out-know their functional leads have a hiring problem
“If I'm, if I got a CEO who knows more about marketing than the marketing person and more about finance than a finance person, more about HR and the HR person, they do not have a leadership problem. They have a selection problem. They had the wrong staff.”
Jul 12, 2022
Goldsmith: Casual suggestions from senior leaders are always treated as orders
“What's the first thing I teach the new admirals? You get that star? Your suggestions become orders. Admirals don't make suggestions. Admiral makes a suggestion. What's the response? Aye, aye. That suggestion is in order.”
Jul 12, 2022 negative
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Goldsmith: Leaders must pause and reset before every virtual meeting
“And what you need to do as a leader is you need to stop and breathe before every different interaction. Breathe. Stop. If you don't, they all start to blur together. You need to breathe. You need to where am I? What's important now? Who's here?”
Jul 12, 2022
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Goldsmith: Dwelling on past accomplishments is another form of vicarious living
“When you live in the past, you're living someone else's life too. The guy sitting at the bar talking about Superbowl three, He wasn't in Super Bowl III. The kid was in Super Bowl III. A young version of him, 50 years ago, was in Super Bowl III. Not him. Well, …”
Jul 12, 2022
Goldsmith: Conditioning self-worth on achievement is a fool's game
“Never make your value as a human being conditioned on the results of what you're trying to achieve. Never do that. It's a fool's game. It is a fool's game for two reasons. One, you don't control the outcomes. There are a million variables impacting anything we…”
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Goldsmith: Being at the top is lonelier today due to social media
“It used to be lonely at the top. Today it is lonelier at the top. People are lonely out there. People are lonely. And just having a group of people to talk to where nobody's going to put you on social media, make a fool of you, where you can just be a human.”
Jul 12, 2022 neutral
Goldsmith: Cognitive empathy can easily be used to manipulate people
“The first type of empathy is called the empathy of understanding. Now, empathy simply means putting yourself in the other person's frame of mind and understanding the world from their perspective. Well, or feeling the world the way they feel it or all that. Th…”
Jul 12, 2022 neutral
Goldsmith: Happiness and achievement are independent variables
“And he said, I finally realized happiness and achievement are independent variables.
You can achieve a lot and be happy.
You can achieve a lot and be miserable.
You can achieve nothing and be happy.
You can achieve nothing and be miserable through independent …”
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Goldsmith: 'The Secret' is ridiculous and relies entirely on survivorship bias
“Now there's a ridiculous book called The Secret. Did you ever read that book, The Secret? No. It's a ridiculous book. It sold seven million copies or more. And the essence of the book is, the secret is, if I envision it will happen. See, that's it. That's the …”
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Jul 12, 2022
Goldsmith: Decisions are made by whoever has power, not whoever is rational
“Every decision in life is made by the person who has the power to make the decision. Make peace with that. Not the smartest person, the best person, a fair person, a logical person, a wonderful person, a rational person, or even a sane person. Every decision i…”
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Jul 12, 2022 positive
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Goldsmith: Tweaking a subordinate's idea slightly ruins their commitment to execute
“Rather than just saying great idea, our tendency is to say, well, that's a nice idea. Why don't you add this to it? Well, the quality of the idea may go up five percent. My commitment to execute this idea just went down 50%. It's no longer my idea, boss. Now i…”
Jul 12, 2022
Goldsmith: Retired CEOs never cite wealth as their proudest achievement
“Interview any CEO who has retired. I've interviewed very many and ask him a question. Please tell me, what are you proud of? None ever told me how big their office was, how much money they made. All they ever talked about is the people they helped.”
Jul 12, 2022 negative
Goldsmith: Fixed identity beliefs inhibit improvement and cause impostor feelings
“As long as we tell ourselves that's the way I am, two things happen, both bad. One, we inhibit the odds on ever getting better. Two, even if we do change our behavior, we don't seem authentic to ourselves. We feel like a phony because if the real me can't list…”
Jul 12, 2022 positive
Goldsmith: Following up with colleagues determines whether leaders actually improve
“Leaders that don't follow up and don't talk to people, guess what? Don't get better. Improvement looks like random chance. Leaders that do talk to people and follow up to the degree they make it a systematic process, huge improvement.”
Dec 27, 2022 negative
Goldsmith: Conditioning self-worth on achievement results is a fool's game
“Never make your value as a human being conditioned on the results of what you're trying to achieve. Never do that. It's a fool's game. It is a fool's game for two reasons. One, you don't control the outcomes. There are a million variables impacting anything we…”