Top Management Books – First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently – by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
This is really a must read book for anyone that wants to be a good leader or manager at any level.
The content and key insights of “First break all the rules”, is taken from extensive research done byGallup. Rather then just looking at high level leaders, they have looked at leaders at all levels to try and understand some of the key skills of a good leader. The findings are generally that the best leaders can come from any background and be any sex or race.
The key of this book is really that a lot of conventional wisdom in terms of what leaders should or shouldn’t do is constantly being broken by the best leader, as they understand that it’s all about people and that all people are individuals and shouldn’t all be treaded the same.
Besides a great amount of data and great research, the book also has a lot of great stories explaining most of the logic behind the findings.
The book also focuses a lot on employee & customer satisfaction, where you can get some great insights. Especially on employee satisfaction it’s clear where so many companies fail and why.
Reading this book will both make you understand why some of the things you do work so well and it will help you understand some of the key things that you can look at doing differently.
Most leaders quickly realize that picking the right talents is the key to success, the book also helps a lot on this area.
Of the many management books I have read to this day, this book is clearly the one I have given the most copies of and recommended to the leaders working with me.
Thanks to Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman for such a amazing book!
I can recommend having a look at amazon for the book as you can often get a used copy very cheap.
