Marshall Goldsmith

Recognized as one of the fifteen most influential business thinkers in the world, Marshall is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better and a #1 NYT and WSJ best selling author (“What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It”)
In this interview Marshall shares:

• » How the double-booking of the then highest-paid consultant in his field got Marshall started in his career;
• » How he became an executive coach, and the unique ‘pay-only-on-results’ basis he works on;
• » The single intriguing question he asked soon-to-be-retired CEO’s that led to ‘Mojo’;
• » The impact of his Buddhist beliefs on his writing, and what Buddha said when he asked him about ‘Mojo’;
• » What Mojo is, and how to get it;
• » The five categories of happiness and meaning, and how they impact leaders at work;
• » Where Marshall gets his happiness and meaningfulness from;
• » How he manages his teaching, coaching and writing activities to reach the most people;
• » Why our default reaction in life is inertia, and how to overcome it;
• » The exercise he goes through every day with his coach – and what he scores zero on;
• » What he means by “going through periods of temporary sanity“, and how important they are;
• » What we learned from Duke Ellington and Dennis Mudd about developing our own Mojo;
• » Avoiding ‘Nojo’ – the negative spirit that holds back Mojo;
• » What he, George Clooney and Bono have in common;
• » The four steps to achieving Mojo;
• » The Brain Pill – are you prepared to take it?;
• » What he’s working on next;
• » His precise retirement date;

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(Running time is approximately 30 minutes.)

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