The One Thing You Need to Know
...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
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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.
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Release date
March 7, 2005 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780743551113
- File size: 109236 KB
- Duration: 03:47:34
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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A veteran researcher and consultant gives a superb lesson on how to thrive in any organizational role. The "one thing" is a brilliant distillation of years of management theory and the author's own insights about human nature. His obvious comfort and deep well of experience make his comments both enjoyable and credible. While giving credit to the spectrum of management advice in common usage, his ideas sound fresh and original, and he offers many suggestions for putting them into practice. To achieve individually, he says, do what energizes you and eliminate what drains you. If you can't quit a role, tweak it, find the right partner, or find an aspect of the role that brings you strength. Top-shelf advice delivered flawlessly by a true organizational visionary. T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine -
One thing you need to know about this audiobook is that Marcus Buckingham doesn't provide the key to the universe. (For that, you'll need a Himalayan holy man.) Instead, this unabridged collection of case studies, paradigms, and strategies helps you uncover the insights that are perfect for you and your management style. Once you discover your own "one thing," Buckingham explains how you can apply it to a wide range of situations. The result will be--as narrator Richard Rohan explains in his brisk, confident style--more efficiency, exponential returns, and greater satisfaction. There's a lot to consider here, and this unabridged work will keep you locked in from beginning to end. R.W.S. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
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