In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 28, 2012
To most of us, mentors are people of experience and knowledge who help the less experienced advance their careers and/or their education. In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO.
Marshall Goldsmith
JULY 18, 2011
Why I realize we cannot all be entrepreneurial in the sense that we can't all start our own companies, I believe we can all be entrepreneurial in terms of how we approach our own careers. He beamed at the hundreds of young people in the audience and said: "Looking back on my career, I don't feel like I have ever worked a day in my life.
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Marshall Goldsmith
AUGUST 22, 2011
It also probably explains why you don't do many things in your life and career that you know you should. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. This daydream explains why the participants in my courses don't end up doing what they know they should. Life is good.
Marshall Goldsmith
AUGUST 8, 2011
The fact is, after being a huge success in a career that has brought benefits like leadership, relationships, contribution, meaning and happiness, playing mediocre golf with a bunch of old men at the country club isn't really that great. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 22, 2012
Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Hamel and Prahalad have an entirely different point of view. Gary Hamel and C.K. This latter view has strongly influenced my work.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 29, 2011
Prahalad used to recommend that a company's strategy should be developed by its thirty-year-old rookies instead of its veterans: The new guard will be more vested in the future than the past. We stay with what we know has worked, assuming that our careers are secure. That's why the late C.K.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 14, 2011
But Dan Pink's recent book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us tackles the perennial subject of motivation, and argues that we need to abandon the ineffectual carrot and stick approach, and the importance of doing something we love for a career. Finally, management ideas can be the catalyst for a better future.
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