What Got You Here Won't Get You There

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of What Got You Here Won't Get You There pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

1. The book's core paradox: your past success can delude you into thinking your behavior caused it, when often you succeed *despite* certain habits, not because of them. The higher you go, the more behavioral (not technical) your problems become.
2. Goldsmith's central diagnosis is that at the top, the problem is rarely skill or knowledge, it's interpersonal behavior. The list of what to STOP doing matters more than the list of what to start.
3. The most common flaw is 'Winning Too Much', the compulsion to win every argument, every debate, even trivial ones that don't matter. It underlies most of the other 20 habits.

The other 4 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 8 chapters

The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.

1. The Success Delusion: Why What Got You Here Won't Get You There
2. The Higher You Go, the More Your Problems Are Behavioral
3. The Twenty Habits That Hold You Back
4. Winning Too Much and Adding Too Much Value
5. Feedback: Confronting the Habits You Can't See
6. Feedforward: Fixing the Future Instead of Relitigating the Past
7. How We Change: Apologize, Advertise, and Follow Up
8. Feedforward in Practice: Living the Change