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

Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

ISBN 10: 0451497864 / ISBN 13: 9780451497864

Published by Random House LLC US, 1702

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Triggers Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be
• Publisher: Random House LLC US
• Publication Date: 1702
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451497864
• ISBN 13: 9780451497864
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

Bestselling author and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith examines the environmental and psychological triggers that can derail us at work and in life. Do you ever find that you are not the patient, compassionate problem solver you believe yourself to be? Are you surprised at how irritated or flustered the normally unflappable you becomes in the presence of a specific colleague at work? Have you ever felt your temper accelerate from zero to sixty when another driver cuts you off in traffic? Our reactions don’t occur in a vacuum. They are usually the result of unappreciated triggers in our environment—the people and situations that lure us into behaving in a manner diametrically opposed to the colleague, partner, parent, or friend we imagine ourselves to be. These triggers are constant and relentless and omnipresent. So often the environment seems to be outside our control. Even if that is true, as Goldsmith points out, we have a choice in how w