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Putting your Strengths to Work: How To Win The Talent War And Get Extraordinary Performances From Ordinary People
“Find out what you don’t like doing and stop doing it”
Marcus Buckingham
Great People Leadership
To attract, retain and inspire world class professionals is the sign of a ‘good leader’. To bring world class performances from mere mortals is the sign of a ‘great leader’.
Marcus Buckingham, the fastest-rising management guru in the world – has emerged in recent years as the leading authority on how to gain extraordinary performance from your people to deliver a high-performing organisation.
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Back to basics - the difference between managing and leading
Getting to the heart of true leadership - unraveling the overcomplicated discipline of leadership
Creating an organisation of high productivity, profit and customer satisfaction through engaged employees
What excellence on the front line really looks like
The core concepts that make for superior leadership
Why a Leaders job is to rally people towards a better future and why the future compels them to act
How clarity is the essence of great leadership and should be the preoccupation of an effective manager
Why it is important for leaders to disrupt routines to discover the real issues affecting an organisation
How to uncover and leverage the strengths of your team while managing their weaknesses
Why it’s our peoples strengths that are our greatest assets |
A wonderful resource for leaders, managers, and educators, Buckingham challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between engaged employees and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction and the rate of turnover.
In his role as author, independent consultant and speaker, Marcus Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal, and is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Yahoo and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths, and obtain and sustain longlasting personal and leadership success.
According to Buckingham (who spent years interviewing thousands of employees at every career stage and who is widely considered one of the world’s leading authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing), companies that focus on cultivating employees’ strengths rather than simply improving their weaknesses, stand to dramatically increase efficiency, while allowing for maximum personal growth and achievement.
Buckingham’s reputation and authority is based on nearly two decades researching the world’s best leaders and managers for the Gallup Organisation, challenging years of social theory and attempting to break through the pre-conceptions to get to the core of what drives success.
With his first two co-authored books, ‘First, Break All The Rules’ and ‘Now, Discover Your Strengths’, Buckingham’s core insight was that managers tend to focus on employee weaknesses, rather than create environments that allow their strengths to flourish. With his third book, ‘The One Thing You Need To Know’, Buckingham was catapulted into Amazon.com’s Hall of Fame – the top 25 authors who have sold the most books through Amazon during its 10 years of existence. His latest work, ‘Go Put Your Strengths To Work’, offers six practical steps for unleashing talents and powerful performances from people who may seem to be… well, just ordinary.
“A charming, blue-eyed, silver-tongued Brit, Buckingham, 41, is arguably the business world’s most in-demand management guru”
Business Week
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