Leadership Nuggets: Dealing With Hard Truths

Aug 18, 2015 • 1 Min Read

How do you deal with hard truths? Do you get defensive or accept them with an open mind and move forward?

Let the famous leadership coach, Marshall Goldsmith, share with us how we can learn from hard truths and make them work in our favour, and how.

As an assignment for you this week, we want you to pick someone important in your life, and ask him/her, “How can I be better?”

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