Marcus Buckingham
Helping executives find their strengths is the focus of Marcus Buckingham, who worked at researcher Gallup Organization for 17 years. Buckingham, who published The One Thing You Need to Know...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success this year, is working on the third book in a trilogy that started with the best-sellers First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently and Now, Discover Your Strengths, which he wrote with Gallup colleagues. The book will focus on how executives can put their strengths to work on a daily basis.
In Buckingham’s new book, which he wrote solo, the Cambridge University-educated Brit explores issues such as the differences between managing and leading. His simple but radical advice for executives: Capitalize on your strengths, not your weaknesses. How? As Buckingham puts it: “Find out what you don’t like doing and stop doing it.”