What Got You Here Won't Get You There (Summary)

According to Marshall Goldsmith, the corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They're intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle. And as an executive coach, Goldsmith shows in What Got You Here Won't Get You There that subtle nuances make all the difference.What Got You Here Won't Get You There won the 2007 Harold Longman Award as Soundview's Best Business Book of the Year.The four key beliefs that make you successful but also resistant to change.- Why the higher you go, the more your problems are behavioral.- Why the 21st habit, goal obsession, may be the most destructive of all.- How to get good 360-degree feedback from your colleagues on your own.- How to overcome special challenges if you're the one in charge at the workplace.