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Topic: Marcus Buckingham

  
CONFERENCES   |  Comment

Some Good Stuff...

BY Scott Hodge
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 13, 2004 at 8:18 PM

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 ...READ»

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The Clear Leader

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 9:19 AM

Marcus Buckingham spent two decades studying great business leaders. His conclusion: True leaders have a unique ability to make things simple.READ»

IDEAS   |  3 comments

From the Reading Pile

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jun 16, 2005 at 4:10 PM

The most recent edition of Knowledge@Wharton includes a couple of interesting articles. Good Managers Focus on Employees' Strengths, Not Weaknesses focuses on the work of Marcus Buckingham, who suggests that good leaders play chess ...READ»

LEADERSHIP SKILLS   |  3 comments

Do You Know Your Own Strength?

BY Polly LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:39 AM

Gallup guru Marcus Buckingham advises some of the world's most powerful CEOs. He also helps hard-charging leaders who aren't CEOs make the most of their talents. What would he think of your career choices?READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

The Clear Leader

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM

Marcus Buckingham spent two decades studying great business leaders. His conclusion: True leaders have a unique ability to make things simple.READ»

PERSONAL GROWTH   |  Comment

Life/Work - Issue 40

BY Tony Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 99
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:18 AM

"The greatest sources of satisfaction in the workplace are internal and emotional."READ»

CAREER DEVELOPMENT   |  12 comments

Middle Manager, RIP?

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 95
Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 7:38 PM

More than five years ago, Marcus Buckingham proclaimed that middle managers were the most important people in your company. Why? "The single most important determinant of individual performance is a person's relationship with his or ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Let's be Clear…..

BY Grace Andrews
Relevancy Score: 94
Mon May 21, 2007 at 12:33 PM

I am very fond of the book The One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham. There are a number of useful concepts in this book, but the one that I liked best was Buckingham's focus on clarity. As leaders, we spend a lot of our ...READ»

BRAND STRATEGY   |  1 comment

Is Focus Overrated?

BY Anaezi Modu
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 1:32 PM

Full disclosure. I probably have undiagnosed ADD. I bet many more of us than we realize will develop ADD if we haven't already, with the relentless stimuli and pounding pressures of our tech-driven times. Back to focus. Why ...READ»

Kenan Samms
EI   |  2 comments

Are You Paying Attention To Your People?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 86
Thu Aug 7, 2008 at 9:13 AM

It’s amazing how many get to positions of organizational leadership while lacking emotional intelligence.  Lack of or poor EI costs organizations more money than you can imagine.  I’ve been quoted as saying “People take jobs ...READ»

LEADERSHIP SKILLS   |  Comment

25 Rules for Leaders

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 78
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:42 AM

Fast Company's recent RealTime San Diego generated a remarkable collection of ideas, tools, and inspirational advice. Here are 25 of the smartest insights that we took away from the event.READ»

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25 Rules for Leaders

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 78
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:44 AM

Fast Company's recent RealTime San Diego generated a remarkable collection of ideas, tools, and inspirational advice. Here are 25 of the smartest insights that we took away from the event.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

The Frankenleader Fad

BY Marcus Buckingham
Relevancy Score: 77
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:59 AM

At many companies, the effort to build good leaders ends up creating patchwork creatures.READ»

LEADERSHIP SKILLS   |  3 comments

Marcus Buckingham Thinks Your Boss Has an Attitude Problem

BY Polly LaBarre
Relevancy Score: 76
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:29 AM

Marcus Buckingham teaches CEOs how to get the most out of their people and their organizations. His first lesson: Forget everything you think you know about being a leader.READ»

BUSINESS BOOKS   |  Comment

The Strong Shall Inherit the Earth

BY Marcus Buckingham
Relevancy Score: 68
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:57 AM

In his debut column, the popular author kick-starts the "strengths revolution."READ»

EMPLOYEE RETENTION   |  Comment

Separating the Cream from the Crap

BY Mark Goulston
Relevancy Score: 64
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:49 PM

Just say "Yes" to Early Adopters, "No" and then "Bye" to Naysayers. READ»

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It's a new year. Can we change the conversation?

BY the founding editors
Relevancy Score: 63
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

As 2002 slips into 2003, it's almost a requirement to do an assessment of the year gone by and a forecast of the year to come. By most accounts, 2002 was a "bad" year for business: bad financial results; bad stock-market performances; ...READ»

HUMAN RELATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT   |  Comment

Competing on Culture

BY Jena McGregor
Relevancy Score: 60
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:04 AM

The CEO of Best Buy expands on Buckingham's vignette -- and how an employee-centric strategy can lead to customer-centric performance.READ»

CAREERS   |  Comment

The wrong question

BY steven sonsino
Relevancy Score: 55
Tue Mar 25, 2008 at 2:11 PM

A tall, bookish man with little round spectacles sidled up to me during the Wednesday morning coffee break. We were halfway through a week-long leadership workshop at London Business School and I could see him slowly making his ...READ»

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Best of the Worst ... Year Ever

BY Fast Company
Relevancy Score: 53
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:41 AM

Fast Company's most popular and powerful magazine stories of 2001.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  Comment

Feedback


Relevancy Score: 50
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:52 AM

Letters. Updates. Advice.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  4 comments

Can Pessimists Ever Be Great Leaders?


Relevancy Score: 44
Wed Mar 16, 2005 at 12:50 PM

Never. Even during the most difficult and troubling times, leadership is all about providing a compelling vision for a better future. No pessimist can make the case for that. I was reminded of this recently in reading the new Marcus ...READ»

BUSINESS BOOKS   |  Comment

Generation *##@**##@!!

BY Katharine Mieszkowski
Relevancy Score: 44
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:06 AM

A new book on workplace tensions among four generations -- veterans, boomers, Xers, and nexters -- explains why it's so difficult for all of us to get along. So do you have a problem with that?READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Two Heads are Better Than

BY Keith Ferrazzi
Relevancy Score: 43
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:49 PM

For the best business performance, you can’t do everything yourself -- you’ll need partners who support and complement your skills. To find someone who's a good fit, follow a few simple rules.READ»

CREATIVITY   |  Comment

Give Them a Story to Tell!

BY Ben Drury
Relevancy Score: 42
Mon May 11, 2009 at 5:33 AM

I recently attended a lecture on marketing and I heard a statistic that as shocking as it was didn’t really surprise me. You see according to a recent study at Durham University, 68% of customers move to a different supplier/provider purely because of the way their first provider treated them. That’s over two thirds of YOUR customers moving to a competitor, not because of your product, but because of the way it was “packaged”. Gone because of something that is totally within your control. How on earth do organisations get it so wrong?READ»

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