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.

What Customers Say About The One Thing You Need to Know: ... About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success:

First off, the one thing you need to know about "The One Thing You Need To Know" is that there are actually three things to know - one each for managing, leading, and personal success. But once you've read that, you already have 2/3 of this book down. The one thing I didn't care for though was the similarity between this book and "Now, Discover Your Strengths," another one of Marcus Buckingham's books.

I normally don't like these types of books as they often suffer from an availability bias. It also has coverage of becoming a strength based-manger. The three things you need to know:For managing: "Discover What is Unique About Each Person and Capitalize on It"For leadership: "Discover What is Universal and Capitalize on It"For personal success: "Discover What You Don't Like Doing and Stop Doing It"The ideas of the book are presented through stories of people the author knows.

That book covers the idea of focusing on your strengths much more in-depth than this one does. For example the sports fan basing a leadership book on sports icons. But Marcus Buckingham has more experience than this, and his examples do seem to support his conclusions, which are general enough to be useful.

This book is more of the "why" and Discover Your Strengths is more of the "how." Overall I feel that his previous book, Now Discover Your Strengths, is the better read of the two because of the extra detail and the ability to take the strength finder profile. This book is still a good read, especially for the leadership section, but it's more of a library checkout than a must have on your book shelf.

Buckingham boils it down to one thing. This question may best be answered by one of the other books in the series, probably starting with 'Now Discover Your Strength', but this book may provide the answer too. Are you a manager or are you a leader. Do this one thing and multiply your effectiveness in all areas of your life. The thing this book does for sure is tell you how to be the best leader or manager. And not a 10-point checklist or anything. I love how in the preface he also tells you the secret to successful relationships. All of his advice has worked wonders for me.Mason Arnoldwww.Greenling.com

The 3 things that 'stuck':1) As a Manager: Celebrate uniqueness2) As a Leader: Call on needs we all share3) Sustained Success: Cut out activities that don't feed you - pull from strength.

The title is misleading.it's not one thing, it's many.and the many things the author cites are rehashed wisdom and experience, though he does present them in a succinct way. This book is for management junkies, not serious people looking for practical strategies to improve their and their team's performance. This is one more example of the superficial competition to fill your bookshelves with passed on wisdom. Better to roll up your sleeves and just DO IT.

I found Marcus Buckingham's wisdom about great management and leadership to be right on. Having worked in an environment that focused on people's weaknesses as an area for growth, this book was refreshing and pointed to the importance of developing talent and strengths. The examples are about well established people and very intriguing to study.