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When Your Employees Know More Than You

Managing today's highly skilled professionals takes special skills — and not the ones that you may think. Oftentimes, knowledge workers know more than you do about their jobs. So, how do you manage people who know more about what they do than you do?

In such instances, you have to look at leadership through the wants and needs of the worker as opposed to the skills of the leader. Here are some quic

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	What Got You Here Won't Get You There 3.95 avg rating — 32,036 ratings — published 2006 — 78 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith (Goodreads Author), Mark Reiter 3.91 avg rating — 9,713 ratings — published 2015 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It by Marshall Goldsmith (Goodreads Author), Mark Reiter 3.89 avg rating — 1,922 ratings — published 2009 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment by Marshall Goldsmith (Goodreads Author), Mark Reiter 3.98 avg rating — 1,164 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Got You Here Won't Get You There in Sales: How Successful Salespeople Take It to the Next Level by Marshall Goldsmith (Goodreads Author), Bill Hawkins, Don Brown 3.96 avg rating — 104 ratings — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches by Marshall Goldsmith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laurence S. Lyons (Editor) 3.69 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take It to the Next Level: What Got You Here, Won't Get You There 4.25 avg rating — 87 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learn Like a Leader by Marshall Goldsmith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Beverly Kaye (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ken Shelton (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Succession: Are You Ready? 3.98 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Global Leadership: The Next Generation by Marshall Goldsmith (Goodreads Author), Cathy Greenberg, Alastair Robertson 3.73 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Marshall Goldsmith (?)

“Fate is the hand of cards we’ve been dealt. Choice is how we play the hand.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be

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“getting mad at people for being who they are makes as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be

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“Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.”
― Marshall Goldsmith, What Got You Here, Won't Get You There

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