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Marcus Buckingham Biography
During his 17 years with The Gallup Organization Marcus Buckingham helped lead their research into the world’s best managers, leaders and workplaces.
Buckingham has taken his broad experience in management practices and employee retention and put it into two best selling books: First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Best Managers Do Differently (Simon and Schuster) and Now, Discover Your Strengths (The Free Press) Marcus’ new book, The One Thing You Need To Know (The Free Press) was released in March 2005 and is a New York Times bestseller. Because of the success of his books, Buckingham was recently placed in the Amazon.com Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 All-Time Bestsellers.
Buckingham’s presentations take the key points of these books, combined with plenty of great examples from a wide variety of organizations, to show audiences how they can learn from the world’s best managers and leaders
A wonderful resource for both Human Resources and Management issues, Buckingham challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and the rate of turnover. Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University in 1987, with a master’s degree in Social and Political Science. Mr. Buckingham is represented for lectures by Leading Authorities, Inc., based in Washington, D.C.