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First, Break All The Rules
What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently

By Marcus Buckingham

Year Published: 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1595621115
Categories: Management

98 Quotes Found

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First, Break All The Rules:

It is counterintuitive, but top performers… have the most potential for growth.

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First, Break All The Rules:

No one possesses all of the talents needed to excel in a particular role. Each of us is a couple of talent cards short of a full deck.

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First, Break All The Rules:

…there are only three possible routes to helping someone succeed: Devise a support system. Find a complementary partner. Or find an alternative role.

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As with all focus-on-strengths strategies, devising a support system is more productive and more fun than trying to fix the weakness.

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First, Break All The Rules:

You succeed by finding ways to capitalize on who you are, not by trying to fix what you aren’t.

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First, Break All The Rules:

…conventional wisdom’s view of teamwork is dangerously misleading… excellent teams are built around individual excellence.

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Regardless of what employees want, the manager’s responsibility is to steer employees toward roles where they have the greatest chance of success.

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First, Break All The Rules:

Help each person find a role that asks him to do more and more of what he is naturally wired to do.

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Most employees are promoted to their level of incompetence. It’s inevitable. It’s built into the system.

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…we now know that excellence in every role requires distinct talents and that these talents, unlike skills and knowledge, are extraordinarily difficult to train.

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