Archive for July 6th, 2009

Posted on July 6, 2009 - by Jus

What Go You Here…

… Wont’ Get You There.

Or so says Marshall Goldsmith in his book of the same title.  I’m only a few chapters in to this book, but I am enjoying how direct and honest Marshall is with his writing about his work as an Executive Coach to hundreds of highly successful individuals.  Why do these successful individuals need a coach, you might ask?  These clients probably ask Marshall that exact question, for the first thing he does is unpack how he attempts to make a highly successful person see that they are indeed successful, in spite of some of their traits – not because of them.

It’s what I would call in my job a “circuit-breaker” – tapping into an area or motivator that makes an individual realise a reality that they had never previously considered… and in doing so, highlighting to them that they need to change.

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