The One Thing You Need To Know, Marcus Buckingham
The One Thing You Need To Know, Marcus Buckingham
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The One Thing You Need To Know
...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success

Author: Marcus Buckingham

Narrator: Marcus Buckingham

Abridged: 3 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/07/2005


Synopsis

Following the success of the landmark bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham offers a dramatically new way to understand the art of success.

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.

About Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham spent seventeen years at the Gallup Organization, where he conducted research into the world's best leaders, managers, and workplaces. The Gallup research later became the basis for the bestselling books First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Best Managers Do Differently (Simon & Schuster) and Now, Discover Your Strengths (Free Press), both coauthored by Buckingham. Buckingham has been the  subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, BusinessWeek and Fast Company. He now has his own company, providing strengths-based consulting, training, and e-learning. In 2007 Buckingham founded TMBC to create strengths-based management training solutions for organizations worldwide, and he spreads the strengths message in keynote addresses to over 250,000 people around the globe each year. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jane and children Jackson and Lilia. For more information visit: marcusbuckingham.com


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matt on May 05, 2010

The One Thing You Need to Know: …About Great Managing, Great Leading and Sustained Individual Success (2005), Marcus Buckingham I think the title of Marcus Buckingham's bestseller should be changed. It would more appropriately be called the "90 Some Odd Things You Need to Know: …About Great Managing,......more

Goodreads review by Tim on June 10, 2018

Book dragged a bit in the beginning (as is normal for this type of book) but overall was a good read. I picked up a number of ideas and changed my view points on a couple of things.......more

Goodreads review by Brian on January 24, 2016

I knew I was going to like this book by Marcus Buckingham when right at the beginning he introduced the angle this book would take, which was to find the main “controlling insight” for a few very important areas of business. He defines a controlling insight as the best explanation, which has to appl......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on March 31, 2013

The One Thing You Need To Know By: Markus Buckijngham Copyright 2005 Reviewed March 2008 Listened to Unabridged Audiobook There is not really one thing you need to know that is the same for everyone. The book explores many ideas of what the one thing could be, and then in the end admits it would be impos......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on July 28, 2012

Since I truly believe you should read this book, or at least the two-page summary of it I posted to my website at www.WhatisCathyReading.com, the only thing I will tell you about the "one thing" is that it is actually three things: one for managing, one for leading, and one for success as an individ......more


Quotes

"Marcus Buckingham's insights about what matters most have been enormously helpful for our people. His grasp of the pivotal difference between great managing and great leadership, and how to act on that knowledge has proven an essential insight for key leaders at Best Buy."
-- Brad Anderson, Vice Chairman and CEO, Best Buy Co., Inc.