The One Thing You Need to Know

Following the success of the landmark bestsellers "First, Break All the Rules" and "Now, Discover Your Strengths," Marcus Buckingham offers a dramatically new way to understand the art of success. With over 1.6 million copies of "First, Break All the Rules" (co-authored with Curt Coffman) and "Now, Discover Your Strengths" (co-authored with Donald O. Clifton) in print, Cambridge-educated Buckingham is considered one of the most respected business authorities on the subject of management and leadership in the world. With "The One Thing You Need to Know," he gives readers an invaluable course in outstanding achievement -- a guide to capturing the essence of the three most fundamental areas of professional activity. Great managing, leading, and career success -- Buckingham draws on a wealth of applicable examples to reveal that a controlling insight lies at the heart of the three. Lose sight of this "one thing" and even the best efforts will be diminished or compromised. Readers will