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The One Thing You Need To Know…About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success |
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Author |
Marcus Buckingham |
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"Must Read" |
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Grade Level |
This book is a must-have for first-time supervisors who want to become leaders |
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Priceless Score |
A |
Marcus Buckingham’s other best sellers are: First Break All The Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths. In each book he draws on extensive employee and executive research gathered by The Gallop Organization. He provides easy to read, relevant stories to make each point.
Buckingham cuts through the clutter and really drills success down to a few key points in each area of managing, leading and individual success.
Here’s the one thing he says we need to know for success as a Manager, Leader and Self:
Manager: “They discover what is unique about each person and then capitalize on it. Great managers know and value the unique abilities and even the eccentricities of their employees, and they learn how best to integrate them into a coordinated plan of attack.”
Leader: “They discover what is universal and capitalize on it. Great leaders rally people toward a better future. Driven by their compulsion for a better future, their challenge is to do everything in their power to get other people to join together to make this future come true.”
Self: “Discover what you don’t like to doing and stop doing it. Your strengths are your natural appetites, and in this sense, irrepressible. You strengths are not only activities where you have natural talent: they are also activities that strengthen you. When using them you feel powerful, authentic, and confident and, in the best sense, challenged.”
One of the best analogies he provides is that great managers play chess, not checkers. In checkers all the pieces are uniform and move in the same way, they are interchangeable. In chess each player moves in a different way, and you can’t play if you don’t know how each piece moves.
This is a great book. It is practical, well-written and inspiring. While it builds on his other two best-sellers, it is not necessary to read the other books first.
June, 2005
