Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham’s Key Accomplishments Include . . .
In a world where efficiency and competency rule the workplace, where do personal strengths fit in?

It's a complex question, one that intrigued Cambridge-educated Marcus Buckingham so greatly, he set out to answer it by challenging years of social theory. Utilizing his nearly two decades of research experience as a Senior Researcher at Gallup Organization, Marcus Buckingham attempted to break through the preconceptions about achievement and get to the core of what drives success.

The result of his persistence, and arguably the definitive answer to the strengths question, can be found in Marcus Buckingham's four best-selling books: First, Break All the Rules; Now, Discover Your Strengths ; The One Thing You Need to Know and Go Put Your Strengths To Work. Marcus Buckingham gives important insights to maximizing strengths, understanding the crucial differences between leadership and management and fulfilling the quest for long-lasting personal success.

Mr. Buckingham examined what would happen if men and women spent more than 75% of each day on the job using their strongest skills and engaged in their favorite tasks - basically doing exactly what they wanted to do.

According to Marcus Buckingham (who spent years interviewing thousands of employees at every career stage and who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing), companies that focus on cultivating employees' strengths rather than simply improving their weaknesses stand to dramatically increase efficiency while allowing for maximum personal growth and success.

If such a theory sounds revolutionary, that's because it is.  Marcus Buckingham calls it the “strengths revolution.”  As he addresses more than 250,000 people around the globe each year, Marcus Buckingham touts this strengths revolution as the key to finding the most effective route to personal success and the missing link to the efficiency, competency, and success for which many companies constantly strive.

More on Marcus Buckingham . . .
In his role as author, independent consultant and speaker, Marcus Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal and is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Yahoo and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths and obtain and sustain long-lasting personal success.