Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham is an author and business consultant whose work examines people's strengths at work. He coauthored First, Break All the Rules with Curt Coffman and has written widely about management and performance.

Books by Marcus Buckingham

First, Break All the Rules

Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman

First, Break All the Rules examines how managers turn individual talent into performance. It asks what to select for, which outcomes to define, how to build on strengths, and how to find a fitting role. The book offers the Four Keys and twelve workplace questions as tools for understanding engagement, performance, and career choices.

14 chapters

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton

Why do people and organizations spend so much effort repairing weaknesses instead of developing distinctive talents? Now, Discover Your Strengths explains how talents combine with knowledge and skills to form strengths, how StrengthsFinder surfaces recurring themes, and how those themes can inform self-understanding, careers, management, and organizational design.

18 chapters