What Got You Here Won???t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful! 1st Edition

I read this book in june-july last year. It helped me improve my professional as well as personal life a great deal. I am really thankful to the authors for this beautiful book...
I read it through library first. I liked it so much, that I bought it later on for my younger sister. I also gifted the same book to a friend of mine on his birthday.
If you want to improve in life, I really recommend this book.

Great book by great management guru.
Written under some influence of Peter Drucker (author was associated with Drucker), this book talks about what not to be done instead of what should be done as given in most self help books.
We are here....we need to be there...& there is a gap.Author intends to bridge this gap by telling what should be avoided as after a particular stage your technical skills matter less & behavioral skills matter more.
The books exposes some of the common mistakes we do daily at workplaces like taking credit of others work, negativity, judging too much, always trying to win in every situation , etc.
Go for it, just care to implement the changes in yourselves ( that's the hardest part, no one can change you,except yourselves):)

‘What Got You Here Won’t Get You There’ - the title itself would have helped the book become a best seller! And rightly so!

‘Thank you’ (Thanking Others) and ‘Apologizing’ according to Marshall Goldsmith are two most important magical gestures that human beings can make. And rightly so! These two golden words have the potential to be an ice-breaker or change the entire dynamics personally or of a team for the better.

The twenty and the twenty-first habits that hold your back from the top is probably a bitter truth that many of us might turn a blind eye to after reading through! And these are primarily the reasons that wouldn’t help you get where you want to be – Higher!

‘To gain a friend let him do you a favor’, ‘Think before you speak’, ‘Listen with respect’ and ‘Monetize the result, create a solution’ are some of the various points from the book that I have learnt and I am sure are result oriented techniques of being successful.

However, the entire book seems to be greatly influenced by Dale Carnegie’s principles. The title itself seems to be a marketing ‘adverb’ of the famous Dale Carnegie principle ‘move far beyond one’s comfort zone’. And so is a huge section of change & resistance of change. Besides, he even goes to the extent of mentioning Dale Carnegie in the book, but finds fault in the theory ‘Two sweetest words in the English language were a person’s first and last name’ and instead suggests ‘Thank You’ as his version of the two sweetest words in English language. Strange!

Effectively, if you have read Dale Carnegie’s ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’, you might just want to give this book a miss. Having said that, if you have read either, it is essential for you to practice what has been preached.

There are also instances when Marshall Goldsmith takes real life examples from ‘Golf’ & ‘Baseball’ games played in the US leagues. I will have to blame myself for not being adept to these games and to be honest I might have missed out on relating myself with these examples.

There is a section on feedback, which I personally feel is something that is targeted to fellow corporate trainers to practice and it bored me to a certain extent.

Upon a small research, I also found out that Marshall Goldsmith and Dale Carnegie Training combined have recently initiated a dynamic workshop on ‘What Got You Here Won’t Get You There’. No prizes for guessing on who influenced whom!

I literally struggled to finish the book! And I have attended a Dale Carnegie Seminar on How to Win Friends and Influence People and would recommend you attending this course or the former to enjoy and experience life changing lessons!

Practical common sense guide that shows you a mirror and helps put a framework around the idiosyncracies of the people who have tasted success all along. Definitely recommended for a mid-senior level manager looking at moving to the next level in their career. However IMHO, this would not be a relevant buy for people just starting out in their careers.