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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:44:20 +0000

[...] Get You There Marshall Goldsmith (you can hear him on two episodes of this show…. show one show two) Take a field trip to somewhere people do great work and just watch them. Wegmans, Cirque de Soleil [...]

By: Courtney

Courtney — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:09:01 +0000

hi i enjoyed the read

By: Tony Hartsfield

Tony Hartsfield — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:30:18 +0000

Oh great… Now you had to go ahead and make me buy another book.

Sheesh!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:17:39 +0000

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/505686/19870322

A little link love from our boy Phil Gerbyshak

By: Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:11:52 +0000

Wayne - Thanks again for asking me to do this. Working with you is a joy!
Rod - I completely agree with you! If you go to my website (MarshallGoldsmithLibrary) - click on ‘articles (free) - and scroll down - you will find an article called ‘All of Us Are Stuck on Suck-Ups’. I hope that you enjoy it!

By: Rod Adams

Rod Adams — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:53:12 +0000

Wayne:

Thought provoking show. That bit about “all decisions are made by the person with the power to make them” especially got me going. As I listened to it, I found myself wanting to push back, but realized there was a lot of truth to what Marshall was saying.

However, there is also a corollary that people with power need to understand - “All problems are solved by people who know how to solve them.”

The trick to a well run organization is setting up communications paths where the people with power learn to talk to the people with knowledge and where the people with knowledge learn to communicate that knowledge effectively. It is even better when the organization actually promotes and develops people based on their overall ability to both communicate and really solve problems.

Unfortunately, many organizations seem to give power to people who smile nicely, manage to paint lipstick on a pig, or who figure out devious ways to get credit for other people’s work.