Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be

"The goal is for you to move closer to be the person you want to be and to have less regret" according to LC. This is a really good book, written by an executive coach, about changed behavior and regret.A few concepts:-Fate is the hand of cards we've been dealt. Choice is how we play the hand.-Regret should be used to grow, embrace the pain and the message.-We do not appreciate inertia's power over us.-Meaningful behavioral change is hard.-No one can make us change.-Some people they want to change, but they don't.-Achieving change is not necessarily easy but it may be easy.-There is a difference between understanding and doing.-We are superior planners and inferior doers.-Chang. John Chancellor said Pure Gold. If you are good at setting goals but not that good at achieving them, then this is a must read. If you are a coach/mentor/leader that works with people to help them become a better version of themselves, then you will gain valuable insights from this book. You will learn valuable insights into what works and what doesn’t when it comes to changing human behavior.It is okay to be skeptical about such bold claims. But consider the accomplishments of the author, Marshall Goldsmith. He is one of the most respected coaches in the world. Mr. Goldsmith works with the elit. A Reader said More of a promotional tool than a book. This book has some good ideas and tools, but it lacks focus and feels forced. My impression is that Goldsmith wanted to put out another book but didn't have a way to fit his ideas together, so this reads like a series of independent--or perhaps loosely related--ideas with no central organizing structure. There is lots here that isn't exactly relevant to behavior change, he goes off on tangents to fill space, and the end sputters out like a runner trying desperately to reach the finish line (in this case, enough material for a book While I definitely took away some inter

His books have sold over a million copies worldwide, have been translated into twenty-eight languages and become bestsellers in ten countries. Marshall Goldsmith is a world-renowned business educator and coach, recognised in 2011 as the #1 leadership thinker in the world at the bi-annual Thinkers50 ceremony sponsored by the Harvard Business Review. . His work

'Creating behavior' is our new battle cry for a bright future."--Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO, The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, 1998 Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Recipient"Marshall is a valuable coach and partner in driving organizational change and performance improvement. Marshall promises that if he does his job as author and you do your job as reader/learner, you will move closer to becoming the person you want to be and also have fewer regrets. You have to want it. He is the top thought leader in executive coaching because he drives new thinking about self-motivation. He has helped me in so many ways. What a privilege to learn from his insights, savor his stories, and fully engage in positive personal change. I promise you, you’ll recognize your own tics in many of Marshall’s telling anecdotes—I sure saw many of my own--and if you pay attention to what Marshall says, you’ll see what you need to

In the course of Triggers, Goldsmith details the six “engaging questions” that can help us take responsibility for our efforts to improve and help us recognize when we fall short.Filled with revealing and illuminating stories from his work with some of the most successful chief executives and power brokers in the business world, Goldsmith offers a personal playbook on how to achieve change in our lives, make it stick, and become the person we want to be.. These triggers are constant and relentless and omnipresent. There’s a difference between achieving and trying; we can’t always achieve a desired result, but anyone can try. These are questions that measure our effort, not our results. So often the environment seems to be outside our control. Goldsmith offers a simple “magic bullet” solution in the form of daily self-monitoring, hinging around what he calls “active” questions. Even if that is true, as Goldsmith points out, we have a choice in how we respond.In Triggers, his most powerful and insightful book yet, Goldsmith shows how we can overcome the trigger po