Authors: Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
ISBN-13: 9780684852867, ISBN-10: 0684852861
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Marcus Buckingham spent seventeen years at the Gallup Organization, where he conducted research into the world's best leaders, managers, and workplaces. The Gallup research later became the basis for the bestselling books First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Best Managers Do Differently (Simon & Schuster) and Now, Discover Your Strengths (Free Press), both coauthored by Buckingham. Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, BusinessWeek and Fast Company. He now has his own company, providing strengths-based consulting, training, and e-learning. In 2007 Buckingham founded TMBC to create strengths-based management training solutions for organizations worldwide, and he spreads the strengths message in keynote addresses to over 250,000 people around the globe each year. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jane and children Jackson and Lilia. For more information visit: marcusbuckingham.com
In First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization present the remarkable findings of their massive indepth study of great managers.
In today's tight labor markets, companies compete to find and keep the best employees, using pay, benefits, promotions, and training. But no matter how generous its pay, or how renowned its training, the company that lacks great front-line managers will suffer.
Buckingham and Coffman explain how the best managers select an employee for talent rather than for skills or experience; how they set expectations', how they motivate people by building on each person's unique strengths; and, finally, how great managers find the right fit for each person, not the next rung on the ladder.
First, Break All The Rules provides vital performance and career lessons for managers at every level. This audiobook shows you how to apply them to your own situation.
Finally, something definitive about what makes a great workplace.
Introduction: Breaking All the Rules | ||
Chapter 1: The Measuring Stick | ||
Chapter 2: The Wisdom of Great Managers | ||
Chapter 3: The First Key: Select for Talent | ||
Chapter 4: The Second Key: Define the Right Outcomes | ||
Chapter 5: The Third Key: Focus on Strenghts | ||
Chapter 6: The Fourth Key: Find the Right Fit | ||
Chapter 7: Turning the Keys: A Practical Guide Gathering Force | ||
APPENDIX A: The Gallup Path to Business Performance | ||
APPENDIX B: What the Great Managers Said | ||
APPENDIX C: A Selection of Talents | ||
APPENDIX D: Finding the Twelve Questions | ||
APPENDIX E: The Meta-Analysis | ||
Acknowledgments |