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Alumnus Marshall Goldsmith Named World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker
December 22, 2011
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology alumnus Marshall Goldsmith
has been named winner of the prestigious Thinkers50 Leadership
Award as the world's most influential leadership thinker. The
award, presented recently in London, was sponsored by the Harvard
Business Review.
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Influential Leadership Thinker:
Marshall Goldsmith, a 1970 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
mathematical economics alumnus, received the prestigious Thinkers50
Leadership Award during a recent ceremony in London. |
Goldsmith is an internationally acclaimed authority that helps
successful leaders get even better. He is the author,
co-author and editor of more than 30 books. That list
includes the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling
books MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get It Back
If You Lose It (co-authored with Mark Reiter, 2010) and What Got
You Here Won't Get You There (with Reiter, 2007), winner of the
Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year. He also
teaches executive education at Dartmouth College's Tuck School and
other leading universities.
"Marshall Goldsmith is singularly persuasive, networked and
energetic," says Thinkers50 co-founder Stuart Crainer. "In
the crowded leadership sphere, he is fixed on changing the practice
of leaders for the better rather than the neatness of his
theories."
Crainer and Des Dearlove, directors of Thinkers50 and former
columnists to The Times (London), track bi-annually the definitive
list of the world's top business thinkers (www.thinkers50.com).
Goldsmith was ranked No. 7 in the 2011 list which included Clayton
Christensen, Malcolm Gladwell and Tom Peters. The ranking has
served the global business community by showcasing the world's top
business thinkers.
Goldsmith was a pioneer of the 360-degree feedback
technique. His success is built on a no-nonsense approach to
leadership and a Buddhist philosophy. It focuses on three
things: teaching, coaching and writing. Our Mojo is "the
moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful and
positive, and the rest of the world recognizes it," according to
Goldsmith. That moment is influenced by four factors,
identity, achievement, reputation and acceptance.
One of a select few advisors chosen to work with over 100 major
CEOs and their management teams, Goldsmith is co-founder of
Marshall Goldsmith Partners, a network of top-level executive
coaches. He served as a member of the Board of the Peter
Drucker Foundation for 10 years. He has been a volunteer
teacher for U.S. Army generals, Navy admirals, Girl Scout
executives, International and American Red Cross leaders, where he
was a National Volunteer of the Year.
Goldsmith earned his bachelor's degree in mathematical economics
from Rose-Hulman in 1970 and a MBA from Indiana University.
He received his Ph.D. from UCLA's Anderson School of Management,
which recognized him in 2010 as one of the school's 100
distinguished graduates.
Read a Thinkers50 interview with Goldsmith about leadership at
http://www.thinkers50.com/interviews/80
Read Goldsmith's Harvard Business Review blog at http://blogs.hbr.org/goldsmith/