First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently | Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman | Best Management Book I have Read

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	First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman Simon & Schuster, 1999 - 255 pages average customer review:based on 262 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

...the same twelve questions can serve as a self-questioning checklist for deciding on a planned career move!...

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham

From the managerial stand-point, I generally concur that the following twelve questions outlined in the book certainly are very useful in helping to measure the vibrancy & productivity of a workplace:

1) Do I know what is expected of me at work?
2) Do I have the materials & equipment I need to do my work right?
3) At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?
4) In the last seven days, have I received recognition or praise for good work?
5) Does my supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about me as a person?
6) Is there someone at work who encourages my development?
7) At work, do my opinions seem to count?
8) Does the mission/purpose of my company make me feel like my work is important?
9) Are my co-workers committed to doing quality work?
10) Do I have a best friend at work?
11) In the last six months, have I talked with someone about my progress?
12) At work, have I had the opportunities to learn and grow?

I also reckon, from the perspective of career planning, the same twelve questions can serve as a self-questioning checklist for deciding on a planned career move, in terms of:

- what do I get?
- what do I give?
- do I belong here?
- how can we all grow?

I also like the author's 'mountain climb' metaphor in the book.

Overall, this book is very well-researched & beautifully crafted.

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Best Management Book I have Read

I rarely have time for management books. I have never been past the first two chapters in any other of these books that I have tried. This book was a suggestion from a book list for a managment course I am taking. Being a little stubborn and oppositional, I liked the title right away. The content was also good enough to hold my interest. It does not read like other management books. It does not tell you to work magic and transform toads into princes. It does not say everyone should be good at everything. What it does say is to recognize who people are and match them up with jobs that work for them.

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Rules are Made to be Broken

4 Stars.

First, Break all the Rules, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, is an outstanding description of some great management practices. Grounded in extensive real-world research, including tens of thousands of interviews with both management and front-line personnel, this book presents some excellent contrarian advice on how to run an organization.

Several key ideas are presented in this book, and they run refreshingly against the grain of many more myopic and/or politically correct philosophies. Ideas such as hiring for talent and training for skills, giving more attention to higher performing employees, and focusing on strengths while (almost) ignoring weaknesses are simple, but often ignored, strategies for boosting an organization's performance.

Unfortunately, many leadership and management philosophies call for the hiring of the most educated and experienced candidate, treating everybody equally, and focusing on overcoming weaknesses (often to the detriment of strengths). The research that this book is based on shows us that the truly great managers out there ignore this latter advice in favour of the former.

Overall, the book is well organized and well written, although it could do with a bit less preachy self agrandizing ("We here at Gallup believe..." or some variant). But don't let that discourage you -- the advice provided is rock solid. The suggested strategies are tied to the research project and justified with thought experiments, anecdotes, and statistics from the real world.

Highly recommended to managers and front-line personnel.

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Just okay

I've read and listened to a great deal of management and business books and this one was just average. Nothing earth shaking nor groundbreaking. Good info if you are a "newbie" to management but for more advanced or knowledgable managers I would recommend the Jack Welch series of books instead.

Good Reading

The reading in this book is really infomative. It gives managers a way of opening up their mind. Most manager will already know what is in this book but by reading it it will make your more aware and conscious of the things. I suggest this book.

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