Marshall Goldsmith is the leading executive coach in the world and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Got You Here Won't Get You There and Mojo. He received his PhD from UCLA Anderson School of Management. His client list is a who's who of American CEOs. He and his wife live in San Diego.
Advance Acclaim for Marshall Goldsmith and
Triggers
"Triggers provides the self awareness you need to create
your own world, rather than being created by the world around
you."
-- Alan Mulally, CEO of the Year (US) and #3 on Fortune
magazine's 50 Greatest Leaders in the World (2014) "Reading
Triggers is like talking with Marshall. You get clear,
practical, and actionable suggestions."
--Ian Read, CEO, Pfizer
"Triggers inspires us to be better people, better leaders,
better fellow travelers. '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. Triggers will guide a
new group of executives looking to reach their full business and
personal potential."
--Brian C. Cornell, Chairman and CEO, Target
Corporation
"Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world's foremost experts at
helping people get better. In this new book, he provides a rich set
of new, practical, life tested ideas, concepts and frameworks that
will help those of us who want to change, be the best that we can
be, and be the person we want to be."
--Hubert Joly, CEO, Best Buy
"I have had the great fortune of working with Marshall for several
years. He has helped me in so many ways. Triggers represents
a natural progression in Marshall's work and many of the ideas in
it have already helped me and many of his other clients. As with
all of his books, I know that Marshall's focused, practical and
insightful approach will help you in leadership, but even more
important, it can help you in life!"
--Jim Yong Kim - 12th President The World Bank
"Marshall Goldsmith is a great author and world-renowned executive
coach. His contribution to our group has been immense and we have
greatly benefited by his unparalleled experience and his knowledge.
In Triggers he shares illuminating stories from his work
with great global leaders. He helps us transform our lives and
helps us become more holistic human beings. This is a book worth
reading for every practicing professional and for those who aspire
to leadership.
--GM Rao - CEO GMR Group (India), Indian Entrepreneur of the
Year
"How do we create the change we need for our organizations and for
ourselves? Marshall Goldsmith is the master of helping us all find
that path, avoiding the negative triggers and building upon the
triggers that bring out our best. Here, again, he teaches with his
unique insight, warmth and positive energy. Our job is to learn and
do better, for a better outcome for all, which this book helps
guide."
--Tony Marx - CEO New York Public Library
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks...without Marshall
Goldsmith's help. With his coaching, you can change your old
behavior to create new outcomes."
--Deanna Mulligan - CEO Guardian Life, Fortune 50 Most
Powerful Women in Business
"We place a premium on developing strong leaders at McKesson and
over the years we have relied greatly on Marshall's leadership
insights to support our executive talent development across the
company. No matter what role a person plays in an organization,
Triggers provides a hands-on framework for helping people
live with intention and greater purpose, both professionally and
personally."
--John Hammergren - CEO McKesson, Harvard Business Review
100 Top Performing CEOs in the World
"No one can match Marshall's massive footprint in helping people
become what they want to be. He is the top thought leader in
executive coaching because he drives new thinking about
self-motivation. The importance of self-awareness, self-engagement
and positive behavioral change is best captured in Triggers.
It will help light up many lives!"
--Fred Hassan - Managing Director Warburg Pincus, former CEO
Pharmacia and Schering Plough, Chairman Bausch & Lomb
"Triggers is fantastic! It is a summary of all the things
that Marshall has taught me over the past years...that we can't
really reach our personal goals until we move away from
self-centered goals. In order to become the person we aspire to be,
we need to embark on a journey of awareness that requires
attention, action and discipline."
-- David Chang - James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef Award
winner, Founder and CEO Momofuku Group "I've known Marshall for
years and loved working with him. Reading Triggers reminds
me of being coached by Marshall. It makes me laugh, causes me to
reflect, and, most importantly, gets me to do something
positive."
--Liz Smith, CEO Bloomin' Brands (Outback, Fleming's, Roy's,
Carrabba's and Bonefish restaurants)
"This is a great book. Building on his brilliant career as an
author and executive coach advising CEOs on how to be more
successful leaders, Marshall here tackles a much more important and
fundamental challenge: "How can we each become the person we really
want to be?" Read this book and find out."
--Mark Tercek, President and CEO The Nature Conservancy, former
Managing Partner, Goldman Sachs, author Natures Fortune
"I had the great privilege of being coached by Marshall. He has
been able to trigger change in my life and help me move to the next
level of leadership. He has changed my life and my career.
Triggers could do it for you!"
--Regis Schultz - CEO The Darty Group (France), one of Europe's top
electrical retailers
"Marshall has taught me the importance of making a positive
difference in every aspect of my life. His coaching techniques and
valuable lessons empower you to extract greater meaning from
interpersonal relationships and provide a superior understanding of
the great results that can be achieved through positive
leadership."
--David Kornberg - CEO Express
"Another phenomenal book from Marshall, full of practical advice to
change behaviors for the better. A fun and very enlightening
read."
--Jan Carlson - CEO Autoliv (Sweden), world leader in auto
safety
"Imagine that for the cost of a book, you can receive personal,
career guidance from World's Best Coach? Marshall Goldsmith is that
Coach. Triggers is that book. Marshall reveals how you can
identify and remove blockers to your personal growth. But the key
is the doing not the planning. So buy the book and start the
doing!"
--Jim Lawrence - CEO Rothschild North America
"Marshall continues on his journey of creating tools to develop
effective leaders. In Triggers he presents simple and
effective methods that we can use to reinvent ourselves. Once
there's an understanding of the behaviors that will get you to the
next level, Marshall showcases how to ensure continued success. A
must read for leaders and those who aspire to be very successful
leaders."
--Joe Almeida - CEO Covidien
"Marshall's coaching invites leaders to focus relentlessly on our
behavior. The leader's behavior as well as the team's behavior
become the basis for great results and continuous improvement. This
will be a key to success for the connected, global,
knowledge-driven companies of the future. Triggers
accelerates our focus on creating the change we need to
succeed."
--Aicha Evans - VP and General Manager, Intel, Fortune Top
Ten Next Generation Female Leaders "Triggers is just like Marshall
- a combination of great coaching and a fun personality!"
--Jonathan Klein - Founder and Chairman, Getty Images
"Marshall Goldsmith's Triggers is a wonderful read. By using
real world examples to teach key leadership points he adds
tremendous credibility to the valuable leaders' lesson contained
throughout the book."
--Nils Lommerin -- President & CEO, Del Monte Foods, Inc.
"Once again Marshall Goldsmith proves why he is not just one of the
top 10 business thinkers but one of the top 10 all around
thinkers! What I love most about this book is that it's not just
for business leaders, it provides a clear path to improvement for
anyone who wants to make positive change in their lives. Thanks
again Marshall for helping me make positive and lasting
improvements in my behaviors and my life - my family thanks you
too!"
--Fred Lynch -- CEO Masonite International
"Triggers is this year's must-read for leaders who want to
learn what they can do to generate lasting, meaningful change for
their organizations--and themselves. Marshall has this seemingly
effortless way of guiding people to what really matters. He has
taught me, as he has countless others, how to bring rigor and
compassion to being a leader. For me, life is good because Marshall
is in it."
--Sandy Ogg -- Operating Partner, The Blackstone Group
"Marshall is an amazing coach who helped me become a better leader
and a better person. He has a unique blend of intelligence,
insight, and practical steps to improve performance. As he says in
his new book, Triggers, there is a big difference between
understanding and doing -- we all understand what to do, but
Marshall gives us the tools to actually change for the better."
--Robert Pasin, CEO Radio Flyer
"In Triggers Marshall helps us understand behavioral traps
we are constantly exposed to, and how to either avoid them or turn
them into positive experiences. As usual, he is logical and
intuitive --it all makes sense, but that does not mean that change
is easy. You have to want it. I enjoyed reading this book. As with
my coaching sessions with Marshall, I have come away with valuable
insights which will help nudge me toward becoming the person I want
to be. Life is good."
--Soren Schroder - CEO Bunge
"Triggers is Marshall at his story-telling best. Marshall
has a unique ability to enable leaders to put down their
well-developed guards, to see not what is wrong, but what is
possible if they dedicate themselves to getting better. This is a
must read for anyone who wants to get better at work and life."
--Brian Walker, President and CEO Herman Miller
"If you want to change your behavior, become the best person you
can be, overcome bad habits that get in your way, and have less
regret in your life then read this book--and apply its advice
immediately. Marshall Goldsmith's Triggers is the most
straightforward, clear, candid, no-fads, practical advice you'll
ever get on how to make change happen in your life. Marshall brings
to this book the full force of his nearly four decades of coaching
experience and shares profound insights, compelling stories, and
powerful techniques that you can put to use now that will benefit
your career, your relationships, and your peace-of-mind for years
to come. His questioning routines are alone worth the price of the
book. Triggers is Marshall Goldsmith's finest work yet, and
I highly recommend it."
--Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the multi-million seller, The
Leadership Challenge, and the Dean's Executive Fellow of
Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
"At the Thinkers50 we have long appreciated Marshall Goldsmith's
blend of practical advice and timeless human insight.
Triggers is his best book yet."
--Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove, co-founders of
Thinkers50, world leaders in the evaluation and
dissemination of management thinking
"I'm a raving fan of Marshall Goldsmith--and you will be, too, when
you read Triggers. 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. Not too bad! So read it!"
--Ken Blanchard, one of the bestselling non-fiction authors in
history, co-author of The One Minute Manager and Refire!
Don't Retire
"I have known and worked with Marshall for thirty years. Packed
with awesomely real truths about how we are with ourselves and how
to make life better, Triggers is the next step forward in
his amazing career."
--David Allen, world leader in personal productivity and
multi-million selling author of Getting Things Done
"In Triggers, Marshall Goldsmith distills wisdom gained from
decades of helping people - clients and friends - struggle with
truly changing their behavior. Though the book is written in an
engaging, approachable way, it is nonetheless profound. Marshall is
more than just a coach. He's a provocateur, a humorist, and a
challenger. If it's feedback you need to hear to 'trigger' the
change you need to make, Marshall would be my top choice."
--Rita Gunther McGrath, Thinkers50 - Most Influential
Strategic Thinker in the World, author of The End of Competitive
Advantage
"There are things about myself that I want to change or improve but
I always flame out after a little while, blaming work, travel,
family responsibilities, etc. Well now I have no excuse! In
Triggers, Marshall not only distills the obstacles to
change, he provides a simple (but not necessarily easy) process
that allows us to overcome the main roadblocks to positive change:
consistency and the environment. After reading this book, I am
ready to try!"
--Chris Cuomo - Emmy, Peabody and Edward R. Morrow award-winning
news reporter and host of CNN's New Day "I have seen
Marshall perform magic, helping an executive break through and
realize her potential and now in Triggers he generously
shares his secret sauce. A must read."
--Keith Ferrazzi - #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Whose Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone
"My professional career has been devoted to helping organizations
create strategy, implement strategy and achieve breakthrough
innovation. Triggers can help you create a strategy
for your life, implement your strategy and achieve breakthrough
innovation."
--Vijay Govindarajan - Coxe Distinguished Professor Dartmouth Tuck
School of Business, Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School
and the New York Times bestselling author of Reverse
Innovation
"There is a reason Marshall is the world's #1 Executive Coach, it's
because he understands people and how to get them performing at
their best. This book is a breakthrough in how you and your people
reach your peak levels of performance and then stay there. Just one
strategy we implemented has the productivity of my executive team
soaring. As the Chairman of the world's largest business coaching
company, I read a lot of books on business and personal success,
very, very few deliver the way Marshall has here."
--Brad Sugars - President, Chairman & Founder of ActionCOACH
"Triggers is your must-read roadmap to become the person you
deserve to be! It's like having the world's top executive coach as
your personal mentor, with rich stories and breakthrough research
that give you just the practical tools you need to take your career
to the next level."
--Mark Thompson - New York Times bestselling author of
Admired, Success Built to Last and Now, Build a Great
Business!
"No one applies the principles of quality and continuous
improvement to human interaction better than Marshall.
Triggers represents a fantastic next step in his
thinking!"
--Subir Chowdhury - first recipient of the Philip Crosby Award from
the American Society for Quality, author of thirteen books on
quality
"A wise book with delightful stories on how to
self-actualize."
--Philip Kotler, SC Johnson Distinguished Professor of Marketing,
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, the world's
leading thinker in marketing
"Marshall Goldsmith is well known as one of the world's top
thinkers on leadership. Once you read Triggers, you'll
realize that he is also one of the world's top observers of smart,
driven people and their many behavioral quirks. 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 do to change that
behavior for the better."
--Eric Schurenberg - President and Editor-in-Chief, INC
magazine
"Marshall Goldsmith is the most disciplined thought leader I know.
He personally practices what he preaches, with great results.
Triggers is his latest gift to leaders who want to achieve
positive behavioral change."
--Geoff Smart, Chairman of ghSmart, New York Times
bestselling coauthor of Who and Power Score
"Triggers is both a powerful wake-up call to be the
extraordinary person you were meant to be as well as a pragmatic
blueprint for self-renewal, restoration and realization. Get ready
for a roller coaster ride on the most important adventure of your
life."
--Chip Bell - author of Sprinkles and Managers as
Mentors
"Marshall and Mark have done it again!!! They have "done their
best" to prepare insightful, useful, and practical tips to ensure
sustainable behavioral change. Reading this book feels like having
Marshall "knee to knee" coaching me. What a privilege to learn from
his insights, savor his stories, and fully engage in positive
personal change. Marshall is truly a gift to all of us who want to
get better.
--David Ulrich - Professor, University of Michigan, bestselling
author and world's #1 thinker in human resources "The book is
anything but preachy... and Marshall offers up his own past
challenges and changes... to personalize the process, and perhaps
let you know that it's okay not to be perfect, if in some ways what
you are is "good enough" for you and those around you. And, of
course, there's a wealth of stories from his executive clients to
bring all these lessons home, as well. What they all demonstrate is
that, regardless of how "stuck in your ways" you've become, there
is hope to become unstuck, to change, to become the best you that
you can be, to become the person you want and know you
can be. So, whether you want to be less dictatorial or
distanced at home, more friendly and easier to approach to your
employees at work, or you just want to be a better neighbor, with
Marshall's help and methodology, perhaps we can teach old dogs, and
ourselves, new tricks."
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