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How Mentoring Others Can Teach You Important Lessons About Life and Business Author and executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shares the lessons he's learned in his decades as a mentor to the world's biggest CEOs.

By David Meltzer

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Marshall Goldsmith, a best-selling author who has been helping America's most successful leaders for decades, chats with host David Meltzer about how business coaching has changed as CEOs become more open to asking for help. Marshall discusses his approach to branding himself as a preeminent executive coach, the pros and cons of winning, as well as how a fateful airline flight changed his opinion on the role of gratitude in the workplace.

The pair discuss how business leaders can make a difference in the world, utilizing feedback from others as well as the principles of forgiveness and effective communication to better connect with those around them.

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David Meltzer

Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of Entrepreneur's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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