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During my career, I have had the privilege of working with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams. My clients are already successful leaders who are working to “take it to the next level” and get even better.
I met Marilyn in 2002 when I was looking for someone to create a website for me. “Just a small website,” I told her. Not only did she help me create my small website just the way I envisioned it, she also helped me grow it into a significant Internet presence that catalogs my work, and gives my clients and anyone who visits hundreds of articles, columns, videos and audios about the concepts I teach in my coaching practice.
Throughout the years we have worked together, Marilyn has applied her broad range of skills to several new projects and opportunities in my own business. She has shown the highest integrity and has handled a couple of tough situations in a very professional way.
Marilyn has firsthand experience with the Marshall Goldsmith coaching concepts she presents in her book. She recently managed a coaching engagement with 4 very senior executives in a ‘Fortune 500’ client of mine. She did a wonderful job of managing the work of coaches involved—and coordinating the project. The end result was positive, long-term change in behavior for the client executives—and a very positive experience for the coaches!
As my coaching clients know, our coaching involves a guarantee … that the person being coached shows documented positive results through a mini-survey. The raters are not me, nor the coaching client, but instead the client’s stakeholders. The mini-survey results of Marilyn’s own coaching engagements also show documented positive results.
Though Marilyn’s coaching has focused mainly on small business owners during her career, the exercises and concepts she presents in her book make sense for anyone who is taking charge of their own enterprise, their career, or finding their way through a personal challenge or transition. The 7 Steps she presents offer tools to improve anyone’s personal management skills.
As I read through her book, it was interesting to learn more about her background, and what informs her coaching. Marilyn is an exceptional coach. She has a way of fitting into an environment and providing support and guidance in a manner that does not call attention to herself, but instead enhances the business owner’s vision and personal style.
This book is being published during a time of global economic uncertainty. The topics are timely. Marilyn has brought together the wisdom of some of the greatest leadership thinkers in modern times, including several of my own mentors, and created a very readable resource book of tools which are especially vital in our changing environment.
Marilyn’s book follows a principle I use in my work: A concept distilled into its simplest form saves everyone valuable time. Her book is small enough to carry around, yet carries the weight of great thinkers and concepts that not only make sense intellectually, but have also been proven to work. She has created a practical, useful tool full of helpful ideas which are balanced with practical how-to exercises and useful questions.
The tone of the book is friendly. It is like having Marilyn in the room. Give yourself 10 minutes here, half an hour there, and read her book as an idea-generator for whatever issues you are facing. With wisdom distilled from her coaching practice, Marilyn’s got it right. She clearly has her finger on the pulse of what you need to know today to manage yourself in a small business.
Marshall Goldsmith
Best-selling Author
www.MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com
Recent books:
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There is a New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year.
Success: Are You Ready? was published by Harvard Business Press in February 2009 and is a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Look for MOJO: How to Get It, How to Keep It, and How to Get it Back When You Need It! to be published by Hyperion.
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