The Earned Life with Marshall Goldsmith

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He is the pioneer of the 360° feedback development tool and has been ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World and a Top Ten Business Thinker for the past eight years.
 
In his coaching practice, Marshall has advised more than 200 major CEOs and their management teams.
 
His books, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” and “Triggers” have been recognized by Amazon as two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written.
 
We discuss perspective shifts from Marshall’s new book, “The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment” as he shares proven methods for leading an ambitious and satisfying life.
 
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Recorded on 10/21/22

00:00 Marshall Goldsmith

00:38 How Marshall spent 600 hours during COVID

02:00 The Every Breath Paradigm

02:36 The reward for living an earned life

05:51 Why kids are less interested in joining “the family business”

08:21 Greatest piece of advice ever given to Marshall by his mentor, Dr. Paul Hersey

10:47 The Great Western Disease

14:17 Why don’t we become the person we could become?

17:23 A Daily Exercise

19:13 The difference between desire and motivation

20:52 Easy theory, tough practice - the average person quits in 2 weeks

23:41 One trick genius

24:45 Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford, shared two lessons that changed Marshall’s life

28:56 Mulally’s Business Plan Review evolves into a Life Plan Review

33:32 Feedforward

36:12 How Frances Hesselbein, the former CEO of the Girl Scouts of America, would lead by example

38:55 “The leader of the past knew how to tell, the leader of the future will know how to ask” - Peter Drucker

41:07 Why it’s hard to stop trying to prove how smart you are

42:03 Why students started crying when Marshall visited the Indian Institute of Technology

44:57 Here’s what matters in life

47:07 Stanford Marshmallow Experiment

48:15 Jack Welch’s wine cellar

49:36 What Curtis Martin, the 6th leading rusher in NFL history, can teach us about a satisfying life

53:20 Marshall’s life mission

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