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First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman
from Simon & Schuster

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Managerial Companion to "Now Discover Your Strengths"
  Having read and enjoyed Buckingham's "Now Discover Your Strengths" and having accepted his central premise that we're all gifted and gifted differently, this book felt intuitive. It introduces this main idea of unique giftedness ("talents" in Buckingham's vernacular), accepts it, and then asks how we ought to manage accordingly. This conclusion is built on a massive amount of Gallup research, and a number of helpful quotes and anecdotes result.
  The four keys that the authors identify are: (1) Select... more info

• First, Break all the rules
  Paradigm buster. After you finish this get the rest of the books related to this project: Now Discover your strengths; Strengthsfinder 2.0 and Go put your strengths to work.

• Read Immediately
  If your work involves employees, managers or ownership in a business of any size, get this book and read it immediately.
  The book is based of the "largest study of its kind every undertaken." And the conclusions from this study are very important. It is difficult today for most business to have a competitive edge in products or services. The last great resource for distinguishing one business from another is human capital - the employees. But most businesses manage by conventional wisdom.
  But as... more info

• Great Managers Lead Down
  Managing is hard work! Every week I coach managers in business, government and non-profits who are frustrated by how to get the work done by their direct reports so they can do their jobs and meet their boss' expectations. How-To-Manage books are a dime a dozen and frequently imprecise and unhelpful. So I was very pleased to find "First Break All the Rules," by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman to recommend and use with my clients. Based on extensive Gallop Organization research this book delivers value by... more info

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