The corporate world is filled with men and women who have worked hard to reach upper level management.
His steps in coaching for succe.
A frequent interviewee in major business magazines like Fortune, Goldsmith, with the sage help and advice of his collaborator Reiter, pens a self-help career book, filled with disguised anecdotes and candid dialogue, all soon slated for bestsellerdom.
What has yet to be explored--until now--is the celebrity business coach, the individual who helps C-level executives correct flaws, whether invisible or public. (Just start counting the books from former company heads.) That goes for the executive-recruiter-cum-president-makers.
From Booklist By now, the CEO as celebrity is old hat. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Still, that may allow the less Successful to gain gRound by improving their People skills first.
As he points out, they are apt to attribute their success to their bad behavior.
While Goldsmith\'s advice applies to everyone, the highly Successful audience he targets may be the least likely to seek out his book without a direct order from someone higher up.
To stimulate behavior change, he suggests imposing fines (e.g., $10 for each infraction), asserting that monetary penalties can yield results by lunchtime.
His advice is to stop doing it.
For instance, he does not suggest sensitivity training for those prone to voicing morale-deflating sarcasm.
Though Goldsmith deals with touchy-feely material More typical of a self-help book--such as learning to listen or letting go of the past--his approach to curing self-destructive behavior is much harder-edged.
Most are common behavioral problems, such as speaking when angry, which Even the author is prone to do when dealing with a teenage daughter\'s belly ring.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS: From Publishers Weekly Goldsmith, an executive coach to the corporate elite, pinpoints 20 bad habits that stifle already Successful careers as well as personal goals like succeeding in marriage or as a parent.
These are small transactional flaws performed by one person against another that, using Goldsmith\'s straightforward, jargonfree advice, are easy behaviors to change.
But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle--and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference.
They\'re intelligent, skilled, and Even charismatic.
The corporate world is filled with men and women who have worked hard to reach upper level management
