What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

Marshall Goldsmith

At the top, what stops people is rarely a missing skill. It is a habit that was survivable lower down.

Marshall Goldsmith coaches senior executives, and his premise is that at the top, failure rarely comes from missing skills. It comes from interpersonal habits — winning too much, adding value to every idea, withholding recognition — that were survivable lower down and become disqualifying higher up.

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Derek Sivers

Founder of CD Baby, writer and musician

Aimed at already-successful people. The personality traits that brought you to success (personal discipline, saying yes to everything, over-confidence) are the same traits that hold you back from going further!

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