First, Break All the Rules
What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently
Number of pages: 271
Publisher: Gallup Press
BBB Library: Business Classics, Psychology and Strengths
ISBN: 978-1531865207
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This New York Times bestseller (and the international bestseller) list for 93 weeks. Time Magazine listed the book as one of The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books. Based on in-depth interviews with more than 80,000 managers at all levels (and in companies of all sizes), the Gallup Organization’s Buckingham and Coffman reveal in this summary what great managers do differently from ordinary managers to coax world class performance out of their workers. Great managers, write the authors, routinely break all the rules. They take the conventional wisdom about human nature and managing people and turn it upside down. In this book you will learn which conventional wisdoms to ignore.
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