The Earned Life with Marshall Goldsmith

Rising Laterally

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the only two-time winner of the Thinkers 50 Award for #1 Leadership Thinker in the World. He is the pioneer of the 360° feedback development tool and has been ranked as the #1 Executive Coach in the World and a Top Ten Business Thinker for the past eight years.
In his coaching practice, Marshall has advised more than 200 major CEOs and their management teams.
His books, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” and “Triggers” have been recognized by Amazon as two of the Top 100 Leadership & Success Books Ever Written.
We discuss perspective shifts from Marshall’s new book, “The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment” as he shares proven methods for leading an ambitious and satisfying life.
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Recorded on 10/21/22
00:00 Marshall Goldsmith
00:38 How Marshall spent 600 hours during COVID
02:00 The Every Breath Paradigm
02:36 The reward for living an earned life
05:51 Why kids are less interested in joining “the family business”
08:21 Greatest piece of advice ever given to Marshall by his mentor, Dr. Paul Hersey
10:47 The Great Western Disease
14:17 Why don’t we become the person we could become?
17:23 A Daily Exercise
19:13 The difference between desire and motivation
20:52 Easy theory, tough practice - the average person quits in 2 weeks
23:41 One trick genius
24:45 Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford, shared two lessons that changed Marshall’s life
28:56 Mulally’s Business Plan Review evolves into a Life Plan Review
33:32 Feedforward
36:12 How Frances Hesselbein, the former CEO of the Girl Scouts of America, would lead by example
38:55 “The leader of the past knew how to tell, the leader of the future will know how to ask” - Peter Drucker
41:07 Why it’s hard to stop trying to prove how smart you are
42:03 Why students started crying when Marshall visited the Indian Institute of Technology
44:57 Here’s what matters in life
47:07 Stanford Marshmallow Experiment
48:15 Jack Welch’s wine cellar
49:36 What Curtis Martin, the 6th leading rusher in NFL history, can teach us about a satisfying life
53:20 Marshall’s life mission
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