Book Titles

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:

Great managers envision a company where there are multiple routes toward respect and prestige…

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First, Break All The Rules:

…anywhere individual excellence is revered, you will find… graded levels of achievement.

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…in most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it.

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…the broad range in pay encourages the person to refine his talents and so become world-class. Great managers advise us to apply the same logic to all roles.

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The energy for a healthy career is generated from discovering the talents that are already there, not from filling oneself up with marketable experiences.

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You cannot put in what was left out, you can only draw out what was left in.

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The best managers… can level the playing field. They can be the ones to hold up the mirror. And they can create a safety net.

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…great managers [make] a point of giving their feedback in private, one on one.

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…a great manager must get to know his employees.

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…if, after pulling out all the stops to manage around his nontalents, an employee still underperforms, the most likely explanation is that his talents do not match his role.

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