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The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
Marcus Buckingham
Rating: 5.0/5 Stars
Rank: 131
Following the success of the landmark bestsellers First, Break All
the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham
offers a dramatically new way to understand the art of success.
With
over 1.6 million copies of First, Break All the Rules (co-authored
with Curt Coffman) and Now, Discover Your Strengths (co-authored
with Donald O. Clifton) in print, Cambridge-educated Buckingham is
considered one of the most respected business authorities on the subject
of management and leadership in the world.
With The One Thing You Need
to Know, he gives readers an invaluable course in outstanding
achievement -- a guide to capturing the essence of the three most
fundamental areas of professional activity.
Great managing, leading,
and career success -- Buckingham draws on a wealth of applicable examples
to reveal that a controlling insight lies at the heart of the three.
Lose
sight of this "one thing" and even the best efforts will be diminished or
compromised. Readers will be eager to discover the surprisingly different
answers to each of these rich and complex subjects.
Each could be
explained endlessly to detail their many facets, but Buckingham's great
gift is his ability to cut through the mass of often-conflicting agendas
and zero in on what matters most, without ever oversimplifying.
As he
observes, success comes to those who remain mindful of the core insight,
understand all of its ramifications, and orient their decisions around it. Buckingham backs his arguments with authoritative research from a wide
variety of sources, including his own research data and in-depth
interviews with individuals at every level of an organization, from CEO's
to hotel maids and stockboys.
In every way a groundbreaking book,
The One Thing You Need to Know offers crucial performance and
career lessons for business people at all career stages.
About the AuthorMarcus Buckingham, graduated from Cambridge University in
1987, with a master's degree in social and political science.
During his seventeen years with The Gallup Organisation, Buckingham
helped lead research into the world's best leaders, managers,
and workplaces.
He drew on this research and used it as the basis for two
bestselling books: First, Break All the Rules: What the
World,s Best Managers Do Differently and Now, Discover Your
Strengths, of which he was both the writer and the principal
author.
Buckingham is considered one of the world's leading
authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and
managing.
He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles, USA.
Editorials
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The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
Marcus Buckingham
![]() | | | Amazon.com | | As a social science researcher and an esteemed business consultant, Marcus
Buckingham (First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your
Strengths) has spent considerable time studying the big picture. This
wide-angle... read full editorial |
![]() | | | Review | | "The One Thing You Need to Know is actually a modest title. It
contains many things you need to know. Marcus Buckingham is flat out the
most original, provocative writer there is on the subjects of leadership
and management... read full editorial |
![]() | | | Review | | "Marcus Buckingham has a keen sense of what it takes to excel, and he backs
his insights with an impressive body of in-depth interviews and research.
This is an important book for anybody who aspires to effective... read full editorial |
Customer Reviews
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The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
Marcus Buckingham
![]() | | | Great examples, few platitudes | | (Ohio) March 8, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | It's difficult to evaluate a book like this so shortly after reading it,
since it doesn't give you time to actually apply the insights the author
is pushing. However, it's clear that Buckingham has written another
excellent... read full review |
![]() | | | An obviously great approach I've never seen used before. | | (Brookfield, WI USA) April 7, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | Marcus Buckingham is quickly setting himself apart from the current pack of
management and leadership gurus out there. He isn't yet in the same league
as Peter Drucker or Tom Peters, but he's young and he's headed... read full review |
![]() | | | Helping to Analyze Your Own Life | | (Winnemucca, NV) March 26, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars | | This is the third book by Mr. Buckingham. Each book has broken new ground
as he continues to develop his theories of management. In this one he
starts with a discussion where a senior manager at Wells Fargo bank said,
after... read full review |
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