How do you get to what's real? Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback. These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring...

The Gallup organization has been at the forefront of measuring and analyzing opinions and behavior for over 60 years. Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, prominent leaders within the organization, have taken their considerable knowledge and applied it to a comprehensive study of successful managers across the country. In today's job market, companies often use impressive benefit packages to entice employees. Buckingham and Coffman have found that...

Utilizing a wide range of examples of personal achievement from Rudolph Giuliani to successful Walgreen's clerk, Manjit Kaur, Buckingham, an independent consultant, author, and speaker, examines three aspects he considers fundamental to this achievement: "great" managing, "great" leading, and career success. As well, the author explores "core insight" and its ramifications in decision making, using research from his own data and interviews. Designed...