num_pages: 244
description: Bestselling author and one of the worlds foremost executive coaches Marshall Goldsmith examines the emotional and psychological triggers that cause us to react and behave in certain preset often inappropriate ways at work and in life. Triggers shows us how to break that cycle and enact meaningful change.In Triggers renown executive coach and psychologist Marshall Goldsmith discusses the emotional triggers that set off a reaction or a behavior in us that often works to our detriment. Do you find that at times you suddenly become defensive or enraged by an idle comment from a colleague? Or that your temper rises when another car cuts you off in traffic? Your reactions dont occur in a vacuum. They are the result of emotional and psychological triggers that often happen only in specific settingsat meetings or in competitive situations or with a specific person who rubs you the wrong way or when you feel under particular pressure. Being able to recognize those triggers and understand how the environment affects our behavior is key to controlling our responses and managing others at work and in life. Make no mistakechange is hard. And the starting point is the willingness to accept help and the desire to change. This book will show you how.Over the course of this book Marshall explores the power of active questions to get us to take responsibility for our actionsand our failure to act. Questions such as Did I do my best to make progress toward my goal? Did I work hard at being fully engaged? He discusses the importance of structure in effecting permanent change. Because he points out change is hard and without a structure to keep us on track we inevitably relapse and fall back.Filled with illuminating stories from Marshalls work with some of the most accomplished executives and leaders in America Triggers shows readers how to achieve meaningful and sustained change that will allow us to open our imaginations and escape the rigidity of binary thinking.
language: English
title: Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be
publisher: Currency