Marcus Buckingham

If you want to understand leadership, you have to understand it through the impact a leader has on followers. The word leadership explodes into meaninglessness if you don’t think about it from that perspective.

What a leader does for followers is turn anxiety into confidence. They’ve always done that throughout time and in every different society and situation. When leaders lead well, it’s because they’re able … [ Read more ]

Marcus Buckingham

When you say everyone in your company is a leader, it’s like saying everyone is a human. It doesn’t mean anything when everybody is it.

Most organizations are based on the assumption that everybody craves respect and the only way to get it is to climb up in the hierarchy as fast as we can. Companies set up recognition, prestige, pay, benefits, office, and title … [ Read more ]

Marcus Buckingham

To manage well requires that you recognize the subtle, but important, differences between people and that you know how to put those differences to work for your organization. Great managers thrive on helping people experience incremental growth. The dynamic creativity of figuring out how to move from the player to the plays is the real genius of a great manager.

Leadership isn’t about that at all. … [ Read more ]

Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham is coauthor of the bestselling books First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, and he is a well-known voice challenging business leaders to operate in new ways.

MCNews talked to Buckingham about his research on what separates the best leaders and managers from all the rest.