Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It! »

Marshall Goldsmith is widely recognized as the world's leading authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams. In November 2009 he was named by The (London) Times and Forbes as one of the fifteen most influential business thinkers in the world. The American Management Association has listed Dr. Goldsmith as one of the fifty great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past eighty years. He is one of a select few executive advisors and coaches who have been asked to work with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams. Marshall teaches executive education at Dartmouth's Tuck School and other leading business schools. His books have sold over one million copies and been translated in thirty languages. He has regular blogs on Harvard Business, BusinessWeek and Huffington Post. His articles, videos, audios, or resource pages have been reviewed by over four million visitors from 195 countries on www.MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com.

Mojo is the moment when we do something that's purposeful, powerful, and positive and the rest of the world recognizes it. This book is about the moment-and how we can create it in our lives, maintain it, and recapture it when we need it.

In his follow-up to the New York Times bestseller What Got You Here Won't Get You There, #1 executive coach Marshall Goldsmith lays out the ways that we can get-and keep-our Mojo. Our professional and personal Mojo is impacted by four key factors: identity (Who do you think you are?), achievement (What have you done lately?), reputation (Who do other people think you are-and what have you done lately?), and acceptance (What can you change-and when do you need to just "let it go"?).

Mojo is: that positive spirit-toward what we are doing-now-that starts from the inside-and radiates to the outside. Mojo is at its peak when we are experiencing both happiness and meaning in what we are doing and communicating this experience to the world around us. The Mojo Toolkit provides fourteen practical tools to help you achieve both happiness and meaning-not only in business, but in life.

Contents

Acknowledgments....................ix
Chapter 1 Mojo, You, and Me....................3
Chapter 2 Measuring Your Mojo....................17
Chapter 3 The Mojo Paradox....................34
Chapter 4 Identity: Who Do You Think You Are?....................43
Chapter 5 Achievement: What Have You Done Lately?....................56
Chapter 6 Reputation: Who Do People Think You Are?....................64
Chapter 7 Acceptance: When Can You Let Go?....................79
Chapter 8 Mojo Killers....................84
Chapter 9 Four Pointless Arguments....................97
Chapter 10 That Job Is Gone!....................102
Chapter 11 Change You or Change It....................109
Chapter 12 Identity: Making Sense of Who You Are....................116
Chapter 13 Achievement: Making It Easier to Get Things Done....................136
Chapter 14 Reputation: Taking Control of Your "Story"....................146
Chapter 15 Acceptance: Change What You Can, Let Go of What You Can't....................163
Chapter 16 Going Beyond Self-Help....................179
Coda You Go First....................183
Appendix I The Mojo Survey: Measuring Short-Term Satisfaction (Happiness) and Long-Term Benefit (Meaning)....................185
Appendix II What the Mojo Survey Results Mean....................195
Index....................201