Clinging to The Past: Leadership requires moving forward

Marshall Goldsmith in his book What Got You Here Won’t get You There talks about clinging to the past as one of the things that will keep you from the top. Marshall talks about this as being a way to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past. Another way of blaming everyone else. I move beyond this to explore how we can move beyond that. Learning from the past can be important but moving forward towards new things is as important, but how can you do that? In this week’s vlog post I give a few examples and ideas that you can use right away — try it out and let me know.

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