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Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in First, Break All the Rules, revealing what the world’s greatest managers do differently. With vital performance and career lessons and ideas for how to apply them, it is a must-read for managers at every level.
Included with this re-release of First, Break All the Rules: updated meta-analytic research and access to the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, which reveals people’s top themes of talent, and to Gallup’s Q12 employee engagement survey, the most effective measure of employee engagement and its impact on business outcomes.
What separates the greatest managers from all the rest?
They actually have vastly different styles and backgrounds. Yet despite their differences, great managers share one common trait: They don’t hesitate to break virtually every rule held sacred by conventional wisdom. They don’t believe that, with enough training, a person can achieve anything he sets his mind to. They don’t try to help people overcome their weaknesses. And, yes, they even play favorites.
In this longtime management bestseller, Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its massive in-depth study of great managers. Some were in leadership positions. Others were front-line supervisors. Some were in Fortune 500 companies; others were key players in small, entrepreneurial firms. Whatever their circumstances, the managers who ultimately became the focus of Gallup’s research were those who excelled at turning each individual employee’s talent into high performance.
Gallup has found that the front-line manager is the key to attracting and retaining talented employees. This book explains how the best managers select an employee for talent rather than for skills or experience, set expectations, build on each person’s unique strengths rather than trying to fix his or her weaknesses, and get the best performance out of their teams.
And perhaps most important, Gallup’s research produced the 12 simple statements that distinguish the strongest departments of a company from all the rest. First, Break All the Rules is the first book to present this essential measuring stick and to prove the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction and the rate of turnover.
First, Break All the Rules presents vital performance and career lessons for managers at every level — and best of all, shows you how to apply them to your own situation.
网友对First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently的评论
给人启发很大的书，英文版比中文版更加深刻。
差不多100元的书，印刷质量那么差，一看就知道是盗版。卓越真垃圾
几年前看过这本书的中文版，这次是为了英国的老板买了原版。昨天他很高兴地和我聊起这本书，非常欣赏其中的观点，并且还列举了他经历过的许多事旁证了书中的主要论点……呵呵，正中下怀，省得我费尽口舌教育他不要以为培训可以解决所有不胜任的问题，选对人才是最重要的。
I read it in two sittings, and made extensive notes. My only regret is that none of my previous managers (after a 25 year career) had read it - things could have gone a lot differently for me if they had....
I've read a lot of management books, and am an Agile consultant by profession, so I was interested in this book from a perspective of how I should be advising the middle managers that I come across when training teams. This book certainly answered that question...namely that the manager's role is to reach inside each employee and release his/her unique talents into performance. To help employees earn the accolade 'talented' by fitting them in the right role. In this new information age of collaborate, self-organized teams the message in this book is more relevant than ever (despite what the authors say about self-organization (or perhaps because of it)
I found this book valuable as it was based on research with over 80,000 managers, not just one person's personal experience. As a manager, the 12 questions that define a great place to work helped me step back and identify what type of environment I am creating for my employees --- or failing to create. Reading the book has led to some very open discussions with my direct reports on those issues. I especially liked the six questions for a review that turn a brief look at past performance into a discussion about what the person needs to do to move forward. I included those questions in my reviews this year.
In our department's people development, we often focused primarily on where people need to improve. The authors gave a different perspective on leveraging strengths and managing around weaker areas.
I also liked the definition of "manager" vs. "leader". Too often management skills are seen as inferior to leadership, yet this book showed that they are separate skill sets. I've got a ways to go with both skill sets, but now have somewhat of a blueprint for how to move forward. This book has helped me look at what I am doing to impact the quality of our work environment.
"This book, based on twenty years empirical data, you have to love that. After first reading this book in 2006, my reaction was "MAN! This is a validation of what my mentors showed me". I have had some GREAT mentors during my career, both in the military and later, as a civilian. They taught me how to see things outside of conventional wisdom (not merely ignore that wisdom). If I may now offer further review: The following will comprise of my impressions of the Conventional vs. Revolutionary Key Approaches, offered on pages 66 and 67 offered in FIRST BREAK ALL THE RULES (1999) by M. Buckingham and C. Coffman.
Conventional Key: "Select a person based on his experience, intelligence, and determination". There is nothing wrong with this statement in of itself. Let's say that there is are two candidates, one external, and one internal for one Engineering Change Order Coordinator position and the enterprise software system being used is Oracle. The external candidate does not have experience with the specified software, however has written thousands of ECOs, as well as cause and effect reports for their department. The other candidate has experience with exact software, however only minimal similar report writing. If the manager chooses the internal candidate due to the software experience, it may work fine in the long run. It can prove to be a better selection tool for the manager to use the Revolutionary Key: "When selecting someone, they select for talent, not simply experience, intelligence, and determination". In this case, the external candidate has a proven talent for working with personnel from multiple departments, in order to complete tasks that come with ECO writing. This individual will may likely have skill sets can perhaps cross over with minimal system training.
Conventional Key: "Set expectations by defining the right steps". Creating flowcharts to show the steps needed to complete a set of tasks is a good thing. Using the Revolutionary Key: "When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes, not the right steps", can prove better. Perhaps you still use Visio, but instead you reverse engineer the processes to find your prerequisites. Work the process backward, from your desired outcome, back to the start.
Conventional Key: "Motivate the person by helping him identify and overcome weaknesses". This less politically correct method of evaluating an employee, still fits well for some of the workers that reported to me. Their request was for me to "Tell me what I am doing wrong, so I can fix it." Revolutionary Key: "When motivating someone, they focus on strengths not weaknesses". For the most part, this approach has been the norm for myself, and the people that worked for me. The reviews that I wrote were geared more towards professional development in fact. I will not manufacture a weakness in someone, when one is not present! With influence from a previous manager, I began to have group study with the shop, install, and service foremen. Instead of having them read a book, we each studied a chapter a week. Each week, a different person would be assigned the chapter, and would write, and hand out a worksheet with a set of questions a couple days before we met, and then the team would discuss the assignment.
Conventional Key: "Develop the person by helping them learn and get promoted. Career path by default? There is a certain quaintness to the "paid your dues"?path. So, if the worker is one of the best, AND shows leadership potential, I would still recommend this process Revolutionary Key: When developing someone, they help him find the right fit not simply the next rung on the ladder. Truly a key point. Even if it is the "paid your dues path, finding there right fit, and then developing that individual to be able to handle the new level of responsibility.
Talent: "A recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied." Three recurring patterns that I feel a supervisor should have, are Ethics, Responsibility, And Command. A fairly cut and dry selection for me, as my most important mentors in the military and in business, all have had these talents
From the Striving Talents Ethics: A clear understanding of right and wrong, which guides your actions. Perhaps it is not telling your subordinate to lie to a supplier, or customer. Or maybe it is not being willing to have a good-old-boy network where you have your favorite workers stay in your office for extended meetings after lunch or smoke breaks with you, while the other workers are breaking knuckles turning wrenches. It is neither fair to the company, which expects work to be done during the periods that payroll is expected to compensate, nor those busting knuckles.
Thank you for this book, Mr. Buckingham and Mr. Coffman."
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