Book Titles

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
How Successful People Become Even More Successful

By Marshall Goldsmith

Year Published: 2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4013-0130-9
Categories: Change, Habits, Leadership

122 Quotes Found

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

If you want to change anything about yourself, the best time to start is now.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

As a boss, you alone know how much you depend on your people. Without their loyalty and support, you are nothing.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

…it’s the odd out-of-left-field dissenting voices, the ones challenging groupthink and the status quo, that make an organization hum and thrive.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

If you manage your people the as you’d want to be managed, you’re forgetting one thing: You’re not managing you.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

Most leadership development revolves around one huge false assumption – that if people understand then they will do. That’s not true.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

…free agents must wrestle with the paradox that the economic value of their experience falls rather than rises in the course of a career.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

The shelf life of knowledge, especially technical knowledge, is continuously shrinking.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

…smart managers need to shed the overconfident bias that they know as much as their employees know in specific areas.

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What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:

…no manager should be taken aback by employees who are looking out for themselves. You certainly shouldn’t resent them for it, or brand them as selfish.

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Today the key to wealth is knowledge. As a result, the company needs the knowledge worker far more than the knowledge worker needs them.

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