Triggers can be positive or negative

This article is part of the Contemporary leadership series

I love my job! The only tough part of my profession as an executive coach and management speaker is that I travel constantly. On American Airlines alone, I have over 11 million frequent flyer miles. Have you ever seen the movie Up in the Air, starring George Clooney? If you have, you will know what this means – I have the card!

Not only do I travel in the United States, I travel around the world. I have over one million flyer miles on British Airways. You know you travel a lot when you have over one million frequent flyer miles on an airline from country that you don’t even live in!

If you travel as much as I do, you cannot let the day-to-day tribulations of life on the road get on your nerves. If you do, you will quickly go crazy.

In November 2015 Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was recognized as the #1 Leadership Thinker in the World and the top 5 Management Thinker at the Thinkers50 Award Ceremony in London. He was also selected as the #1 Executive Coach in the World by GlobalGurus.org, and one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. In 2011 he was chosen as the World's Most Influential Leadership Thinker. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013. What Got You Here Won't Get You There was listed as a top ten business bestseller for 2013 by INC Magazine / 800 CEO Read (for the seventh consecutive year). Marshall's exciting new research on engagement is published in his newest book Triggers (Crown, 2015).