Mark Goulston is senior vice president of emotional intelligence at Sherwood Partners, a Palo Alto, California-based turnaround and growth consulting firm. Author of Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior (Perigee, 1996), Goulston is also a professor at UCLA. In his work, he helps leaders and teams quickly recognize, accept, correct, and learn from mistakes.
You can contact Goulston directly via email.
Columns
- Do You Have Achiever's Disease?
- A reader writes in, sharing a story of truly extreme leadership -- and its down side.
- Take the POP Quiz
- What does POP mean to you? Find out and make your organization pop.
- The PEP CEO Challenge
- How strong is your pride, enthusiasm, and passion?
- You're Fired!
- The Donald is back. It's time to settle back into our easy chairs and watch the amusing, stimulating -- and even educational -- second season of the Apprentice.
- My Dinner with a Bully
- Coming face to face with an overbearing, win-at-all-costs blowhard can take courage. Recognizing those characteristics in yourself can take even more. (Fifth in a series.
- Standing up to Those Who Don't Do the Right Thing
- Character is one of the four characteristics of successful leaders. Sometimes, expressing it can take the courage of your convictions. (Fourth in a series.
- The Integrity-Based Business
- Integrity is one of the four characteristics of successful leaders. And it's important in every aspect of your business. (Third in a series.
- What Would My Mentor Do?
- Good judgment is one of the four characteristics of successful leaders. But how do you know what the right thing to do is -- and when to do it? (Second in a series).
- The CEO of the 21st Century
- What are the qualities and characteristics that help create successful leaders? Consider this four-point plan.
- Overcoming a Bad Case of the " Yips"
- Instead of dealing with failure and frustration in self-defeating, self-destructive ways, take a tip from golf to become not just a winner, but a champion.
