What Got You Here, Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith Flashcards
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What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
He has a bad habit of verbalizing any and every internal monologue in his head merely talk tonight and idea against the wall to see if it sticks when intern his employees think he’s giving them a direct command
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
I show these people what their colleagues at work really think of them it’s called feedback it’s the only tool I need to show people
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
A journalist once told me that the most important thing he’s learned in his career “ put a comma in the wrong place and the whole sentence is screwed up “
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
I have a Ph.D organizational behavior from UCLA and 29 years of experience measuring and analyzing behavior in organizations
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
My job is to make them see that the skills and habits that have taken them this far might not be the right skills and habits to take them further
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
I train people to behave effectively in the workplace by enrolling them in a simple but brutal regimen
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
First I solicit 360 degree feedback hunter College as many as I can talk to up down and sideways in the chain of command often including family members for a comprehensive assessment of their strengths and weaknesses
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The most realistic people in our society are the chronically depressed
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Belief number one I have succeeded
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
On the contrary it’s because you edit out the failures and shoes instead to run the Highlight Reel of your success
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Two successful people past is always prolong and the past is always rose-colored
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Not only did he lean on his past success to maintain successful attitude but he relied on it even when his past performance was not so Rosy - for example when the evidence contradicted his self-confidence. Successful people never drink from a glass that is half empty.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
If you asked your colleagues to estimate their percentage contribution to the Enterprise, total will it always exceed 100%. There’s nothing wrong with this. You want to surround yourself with confidence people. If your total ever comes to less than 100%, just you find new colleagues.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The least number 2 I can succeed
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Successful people believe they have the capability within themselves to make desirable things happen
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
People who believe they can succeed see opportunities where others see threats.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
We tend to believe that success is earned through an individual’s motivation and ability even when it is not.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Take the example of people who buy state lottery tickets. It is statistically factual that state-run law are regressive taxes on people who are not the highest income earners serious Lottery players tend to believe that any success is a function of luck, turn off factors, random chance. This is the opposite belief of most successful people, and why you rarely see millionaire scratching tickets.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
One of the greatest mistakes of successful people is the assumption, I am successful. Behave this way pure therefore, I must be successful because I behave this way! The challenge is to make them see that sometimes they are successful in spite of their behavior.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Belief number 3 I will succeed
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
If I have succeeded refers to the past and I can succeed to the present then I will succeed refers to the Future successful people have an unflappable optimism. They not only believe that they can manufacture success they believe it’s practically their do.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
This I will succeed belief can sabotage our chances for Success when it’s time for us to change Behavior.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
When the do-nothings are, why didn’t you implement the behavior change that you said you would? By far the most common what is, I meant to, but I just didn’t have time to get to it. In other words, they were over committed. It’s not that they didn’t want to change, or didn’t agree with a value of changing. They just ran out of hours in the day. They thought that they would get to it later, and later never arrived. Over-commitment can be as serious an obstacle to change as believing that you don’t need fixing or that your flaws are part of the reason you’re successful.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Belief number four I choose to succeed
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
When we do what we choose to do we are committed when we do what we have to do we are compliant
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The more we believe that our behavior is a result of our own choices and commitments, less likely we are to want to change our Behavior.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
It’s called cognate dissidence. Refers to the disconnect between what we believe in our minds and what we experience or see in reality.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Psychologically speaking superstitious Behavior comes from the mistaken belief that a specific activity that is followed by positive reinforcement is actually the cause of that positive reinforcement. The activity may be functional or not that is, it may affect someone or something else, or it may be self-contained pointless. But if something good happens after we do it, that we make a connection and seek to repeat the activity.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Psychologist BF Skinner was one of the first to highlight this in inanity by showing how hungry pigeons would repeat their twitches because doing so was randomly followed by small pellets of grains. After twitching in a certain way and then immediately getting fed, pigeons learn to repeat the Twitches. They mistakenly believe that twitching by the food. Twitch they hope, and you get fat. Twitch again, eat more.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Superstition is merely the confusion of correlation and causality. Any human like an animal tends to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more we achieve, reinforcement week at.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The difference between 6s that happens because of our Behavior, success.com in spite of our Behavior.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
It always happens with people caught in the Superstition trap. They cling to the notion that their success is casually linked to specific behavior, bad, responsible or risky, legitimate or inappropriate. They refuse to accept that not all good things flow to them because of the less than good things they do. Sometimes there’s no casual connection at all.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Virtually all of us are superstitious, watching too much value to bad behavior that was confusing Lee associated with our success.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Given enough time natural relationships will develop between our businesses.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
What applies to desperate parts of a giant company also applies to desperate people in an organization. You can’t force people to work together. You can’t mandate energy. You can’t manufacture Harmony, whether it’s between two people or two.. You also can’t order people to change their thinking or behavior. The only law that applies is natural law.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
People will do something including changing their behavior only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their best interest as defined by their own values.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Successful people have very few reasons to change your behavior and lots of reasons to stick with the status quo to dance with what brought them here. Their success has showered them with positive reinforcement so they feel it smart to continue doing always done.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
People’s resistance to change can be overcome by invoking natural law. You on even the biggest ego in the room has a hot-button that and that button is self-interest. I’ll have to do is find it. Not the same thing in all people.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
If you press people to identify the motives behind their self interest boils down to four items money power status popularity.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do we don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do they need to learn what to stop.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
When was The Last Retreat you attended that was titled stupid things are top people do that need to stop doing?
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The recognition and reward systems in most organizations are totally geared to acknowledge the doing of something we get credit for doing something good. Really get credit for ceasing to do something bad. Yep they are flip sides of the same coin.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The funny thing about stopping some Behavior, it gets no attention but it can be as crucial as everything else we do combine.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
We lose this comments in the can do environment of an organization where there is no room for honoring the avoidance of a bad decision or the sea scene of a bad that behavior. Performance reviews are solely based on what we’ve done what numbers we delivered, increases we have posted against the last year’s results. Even the seemingly minor personal goals are couch in terms of actions we’ve initiated, caterers we have stock.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Instead of doing the usual to do list start your to stop list. We have to stop coaching all behavior in terms of positive or negative not all behavior is good or bad some of the Sith is simply neutral neither good nor bad. Paragraph if This Were a baseball team and I was a coach I’m not the guy to teach you how to hit a hanging curveball that’s the hitting instructors job. I’m the coach who teaches you how to get along with your teammates how to play nice rather than how to play baseball.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
What we’re dealing with here are challenges and interpersonal Behavior often leadership Behavior
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The higher you go, more your problems are behavioral.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
At the higher levels of an organizational life all the leading players are technically skilled they’re all smart. That’s why behavioral issues become so important that the upper rungs of the corporate ladder.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
When people ask me if the leaders are coach can really change their behavior, answer is this as we advance in our careers behavioral changes are often the only significant changes we can make.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Habit number one winning too much
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
There’s a fine line between being competitive and over competitive, between winning when it counts and when no one’s counting, and successful people cross that line with alarming frequency.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Habit number two adding too much value
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
As an executive coach, i’m used to monitoring people’s diet yes, listening with forensic intensity for clues that reveal why these otherwise accomplish people annoy their bosses,, a coordinates.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The problem is you may have improved the content of my idea by 5%, but you’ve reduce my commitment to executing it by 50%, have you taken away my ownership of the idea. My my idea is now your idea, they walk out of your office less enthused about it than when I walked in. That’s the fallacy of adding value. Whatever we gain in the form of a better idea is lost many times over and our employees. Commitment to the concept.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The higher up you go in the organization, more you need to make other people winners and not make it about winning yourself.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
He got into the habit of taking a breath before he talk, he realize that at least half of what he was going to say wasn’t worth saying. Even though he believed he could add value, he realize he had more to gain by not winning.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Habit number 3 passing judgement
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
It’s not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically asked people to voice their opinions about us.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
I am Mission neutral. I don’t deal an approval or disapproval. Don’t judge. It’s not my job to weigh in on weather you’re a good person or bad person because you’ve decided to change a rather than be.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
It’s the same as a medical doctor dealing with patients. If you walk into the examining room with a broken leg, dr. Pass judgement on how you broke your leg. He doesn’t care if you broke your leg committing you’re kicking the dog or tripping down the we’re getting hit by car. He only cares about fixing your leg.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
For one week treat every idea that comes your way from another person with complete neutrality. Think of yourself as a human Switzerland.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
If you cannot self-monitor your judgmental response, hire a friend to call you out and Bill you hard cash every time you make a judgemental,
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Habit number four making destructive comments.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The feedback I’ve collected says that avoids destructive comments what are the two items with the lowest correlation between how we see ourselves and how others see us in other words we don’t think we make the destructive comment but the people who know us disagree.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
That is the other interesting thing about destructive,. We think it is, statistically it is only a problem and 15% of my clients. Doesn’t mean the other 85% of the world is not guilty of making destructive, we all make them everyday. It indicates that only 15% of us do it to the point where it is a problem with our colleagues.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The fact that a destructive comment true is irrelevant. The question is not, is it true? Rather, is it worth it?
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Warren Buffett advice that be you take any morally questionable action cover you should ask yourself if you want your mother to read about it in the newspaper.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Habit number 5 starting with no but or however
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
When you start a sentence with no but however or any variation thereof, no matter how friendly your tone or how many cute mollifying phrases you throw in to acknowledge the other person’s feelings, the message to the other person is you are wrong.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
That’s true, never… Meaning you don’t think it’s true at all. Or yes, but.. Meaning prepare to be contradicted.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Habit number 6 telling the world how smart you are
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
The Paradox is that this need to demonstrate how smart we are rarely hits its intended target.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Being smart turns people on. Announcing how smart you are turns them off.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Habit number 7 speaking when angry
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Emotionally volatility is not the most reliable leadership tool. When you get angry, are usually out of control.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
A Buddhist Legend tells of a young farmer who is covered with sweat as he paddled his boat up the river. He was going Upstream to deliver his produce to the Village. He was in a hurry. Is a hot day and he wanted to make his delivery and get home before dark as he looked ahead, he spied another vessel, rapidly down toward his boat. This vessel seem to be making every effort to hit him. He rode frivolously to get out of the way, but it didn’t seem to help.
he yelled at the other vessel change direction,! You are going to hit me. The river is wide. Careful! His screaming was to no avail. The other vessel hit his boat with a sickening thud. He was enraged as he stood up and cried out to the other vessel, you moron! How could you manage to hit my boat in the middle of this wide river? What is wrong with you?
As he looked at the other vessel, realize that there was no one in the boat. He was screaming at an empty vessel that had broken free of its Moorings and was going Downstream with the current. Line the lesson is simple. There is never anyone in the other boat. When we are angry, screaming at an empty vessel.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Getting angry does not improve the situation and Life’s too short to waste on feeling bad.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith
Habit number 8, let me explain why that won’t work.
What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith