The Importance of Letting Go

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I think when we're younger it's much more about achievement and about me. And then as you grow up into the ladder it needs to be more and more about them. I have a funny story. One night General Shinseiki was head of the army. He asked me, who's your favorite customer? I said, my favorite customer smart dedicated hardworking driven to achieve creative entrepreneurial cares about the company and customers. They didn't know it all. It never wants to be wrong.

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Marshall Goldsmith joins Joe to discuss his latest book, The Earned Life and what he's learned about life and leadership over the course his career as an executive coach. Joe and Marshall cover a wide range of important topics to include why we need to understand what motivates us, the relationship between power and ego, and the difference between ambition and aspiration.

Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Business Thinkers in the World and the top-rated executive coach at the Thinkers50 ceremony in London since 2011. Published in 2015, his book Triggers is a Wall Street Journal and New York Times #1 Bestseller! He’s also the author of New York Times best seller and #1 Wall Street Journal Business Book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, winner of the Harold Longman Award as Best Business Book of the Year.