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The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
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The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success

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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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherFree Press
Release dateMar 8, 2005
ISBN9780743279697
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Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham’s bestselling books have sold more than four million copies. The world's foremost thought leader on strengths and performance, Marcus relentlessly seeks the fundamental truths that help people unleash their greatest potential. He began his career as a researcher at Gallup, spending two decades studying excellence in leaders and teams. In 2006, he launched the Marcus Buckingham Company, which delivers education, coaching, and HR technology to some of the world’s most prestigious firms. Marcus has been profiled in Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, and Fast Company and has worked with companies such as Facebook, Cisco, Deloitte, Hilton, Lululemon, and The Walt Disney Company.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    A comprehensive yet compact guide to achieving success in many life aspects. I loved the way leading and management issues were tackled and overall the book provides with several I wouldn't say enlightening but surely worthwhile ideas and concepts.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    I read this book rather quickly because, at one level, it is like bubblegum. You don't get too much flavour. There are some useful tips scattered through the book, and this is good. However, these are sometimes buried deep within some anecdotes that are a bit longwinded. There is no great insight. Having said that, the tips that Marcus provides are commonsensical tips and, common sense is what many of us lack most of the time!There is no "One Thing" either!
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    I like complexity. That's the reason (one of the reasons) that I'll likely never write a best-selling management book. Buckingham, on the other hand, is a master at simplifying things and providing concise advice about managing, leading, and succeeding. I can see the benefits to his focused approach. I finished this book with a clear understanding of Buckingham's keys to great management (capitalize on employees' strengths), leadership (provide focus and clarity about the future), and individual success (play to your own strengths and avoid your weaknesses). And it's not that I disagree with any of these basic pieces of advice. However, as you'll see if you've read any of his other management books, Buckingham repeats a number of familiar themes in this book. Further, he sometimes ignores the other side of basic arguments. For example, he adamantly states that great leaders are born, not made. My reading of the research literature on leadership suggests that there is evidence to support both sides of that argument; however, Buckingham provides only examples that support his side. Some of these examples were quite interesting and may prove useful to those attempting to improve their management, leadership, and individual performance. But, in the end, I felt that Buckingham erred on the side of oversimplifying a complex topic.
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    I've read the book, seen his presentation, and highly recommend his approach to personal success and leadership.

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