Today I had the opportunity to hear three great authors and business leaders at The Leadership Summit happening here in Chicago. Marcus Buckingham (author of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths), Tim Sanders (Chief Solutions Officer at Yahoo! and author of Love is the Killer App), and Steven Sample (author of The Contrarians Guide to Leadership).

I will be posting detailed notes on my site in the next couple of days, but in the meantime I wanted to leave you with a few thoughts from Marcus Buckingham who today shared a few thoughts from his new book, The One Thing You Need to Know, which will be released in 2005.

Five questions that will help managers better understand those who are on their team:

• What was your best day at work in the last three months? (Why?)
• What was your worst day at work in the last three months? (Why?)
• What was the best manager relationship youve ever had? (What did that manager do?)
• What was the best recognition that you've had? (What made it so good?)
• Where in your career did you learn the most?

(And thank you once again to FC and Heath Row for the kind opporunity to contribute on FC Now the past couple of days.)