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Competing on Culture
In his new book, The One Thing You Need to Know...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success (Free Press, March 2005), Marcus Buckingham advises leaders to "find an edge -- one edge -- and talk about it all the time." Buckingham In his new book, The One...
Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., edge, Marcus Buckingham
Research articles 2005-03-01
Is Your Business Putting Up Barriers to Growth?
  Policies, processes and controls that are designed to improve performance can often deliver unintended, negative consequences. That's why London's mayor, Boris Johnson, is removing street furniture -- signs, traffic lights, barriers and road markings -- in order to create uncertainty about who has...
Tags: Barrier, London, KPI, Marcus Buckingham, Strategy, Management, Stuart Cross
Blog posts 2008-11-19

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1981: Man arrested for shooting at the Queen
Byline: KATIE CAMPLING THE Queen was left shaken after she was shot at while riding past crowds on horseback. The monarch was taking part in the Trooping the Colour ceremony on June 13, 1981, when Marcus Serjeant pointed a replica pistol directly at her on Horseguards'...
Articles 2009-06-13
Buckingham: nurture employees' strengths to build successful teams
WASHINGTON -- Too many businesspeople focus on shoring up their weaknesses, when the more effective strategy is to build on their strengths, said best-selling author Marcus Buckingham during his keynote speech at the Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators conference here. For years we have studied depression to understand happiness, disease...
Articles 2008-11-03
Monster Pairs with Best-Selling Career Success Author Marcus Buckingham for The Truth About You National Book Tour
Buckingham's Fifth Book Reveals Important Message to Young Professionals about Career Choices and Life Improvement MAYNARD, Mass. & LOS ANGELES -- Monster[R], the leading global online careers and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST), today announced its sponsorship of best-selling author Marcus Buckingham's...
Articles 2008-10-21
Taleo to Host Taleo WORLD 2008 User Conference
Taleo (NASDAQ: TLEO), the leading provider of ondemand talent management solutions, today announced that the Company ishosting its annual user conference, Taleo WORLD 2008, from September 15-18,2008 in Boston, MA. Featured speakers include: Marcus Buckingham, the best-selling author of"Expert on Outstanding Leadership and Management Practices"; Polly LaBarre,co-author of "Mavericks at...
Articles 2008-09-11
One more time—focus on your strengths
POINT Marcus Buckingham Author, independent consultant and speaker The Inconvenient Facts Study performance within any organization and you discover consistent and meaningful differences in performance among teams doing exactly the same work. Unit profitability, individual productivity, employee retention, customer satisfaction, an employee's...
Articles 2008-09-01
Counterpoint: Arthur Yeung
COUNTERPOINT Arthur Yeung Associate Dean and Philips Chair Professor, China Europe International Business School, People's Republic of China Drawing upon an extensive database of more than 2 million employees from hundreds of companies in more than 20 countries, Marcus Buckingham and his associates at...
Articles 2008-09-01
Counterpoint: Ranjan Acharya
COUNTERPOINT Ranjan Acharya Joseph George Anjilvelil WIPRO, Ltd. Bangalore, India The refrain of positive psychology comes through strikingly on reading Marcus Buckingham's proposal to replace remedial, paternalistic, infrequent and outdated performance management systems with strengths-based, employee-driven, community-generated designs. That such a refrain should sound...
Articles 2008-09-01
New publishing releases announced
New and upcoming releases in publishing: September "Home," by Marilynne Robinson: The sequel to the Pulitzer Prize- winning "Gilead." "Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba," by Tom Gjelten: The NPR host writes a biography of the Bacardi family. ...
Articles 2008-08-31
Go Put Your Strengths to Work; 6 powerful steps to achieve outstanding performance
Research shows that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work. In fact, just 17 percent of the workforce believe they use all of their strengths on the job. Go Put Your Strengths to Work aims to change that through a six-step, six-week...
Articles 2008-07-01
Where Will You Get Your Next Big Idea??? Envision '08 Brings Together International Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs for Conference
SAN ANTONIO -- International bestselling authors Dr. Stephen Covey and Marcus Buckingham, CEOs, successful business leaders, business visionaries and entrepreneurs will convene at the Envision '08 conference in historic San Antonio, Texas on April 23-25. Sponsored by The Texas A&M University Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship, Envision '08 will...
Articles 2008-02-13
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance Marcus Buckingham Free Press, (2007) 430 pages, Hardcover, $19.80 The key in increasing performance and productivity in the workplace is in making sure that one is prepared and empowered to do more of what he or...
Articles 2008-01-31
Former president of Mexico to speak in OKC, Tulsa
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox will discuss his business- centered approach to the development of Mexico and related opportunities in presentations in Oklahoma City and Tulsa on Feb. 5. His presentations are part of the Executive Management Briefings Series sponsored by the William S. Spears School of...
Articles 2008-01-15
OSU biz school announces speakers for Executive Management Briefings
Juan Enriquez, author of As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth, will be the first speaker for the Executive Management Briefings presented by the Oklahoma State University William S. Spears School of Business. Enriquez, who heads...
Articles 2007-11-08
Good from great
Frontline Leadership A focus on talent In their 1999 book, First Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Hoffman studied data collected by the Gallup organization to find out what differentiated great managers from mediocre ones. They suggested that the triad of talent, knowledge and skill constitutes the "base...
Articles 2007-10-01
Root Learning and The Marcus Buckingham Company to Develop Online Course for the Simply Strengths Experience
Strategic Partnership Focused on Building Strengths-Based Organizations; Hampton Hotels Collaborates with Solution Development as First Customer SYLVANIA, Ohio -- Root Learning, Inc., a strategic learning company that engages and connects people to create results, today announced a strategic partnership with The Marcus Buckingham Company, founded by Marcus Buckingham,...
Articles 2007-07-24
New books seek to enhance strategic management, increase performance
The following recently published books are among those that sit on the EBN bookshelf, and you may want to make them a part of your company's library as well. Contact the Web sites below for ordering information. Go Put Your Strengths to Work: ...
Articles 2007-05-01
ATTENTION SHOPPERS
What's new and where to find it. A quick look at new products services, and gear for trainers. Online Resources LEADER TO LEADER INSTITUTE website, www.leadertoleader.org Founded in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the Leader to Leader Institute is devoted to...
Articles 2007-03-01
SMART SEQUEL IN THE 'STRENGTH MOVEMENT'
SMART SEQUEL IN THE 'STRENGTH MOVEMENT' Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance By Marcus Buckingham (Free Press, 320 pp., $30) Reviewed by Darin Painter Many business leaders and trainers assume excellence is the opposite of failure, and that a deeper understanding...
Articles 2007-03-01
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