Author | Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Management, employee satisfaction, motivating workers |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Published | May 1999 ( Simon & Schuster) |
Media type | Print, hardcover |
Pages | 271 |
ISBN | 0-684-85286-1 |
OCLC | 40762827 |
658.4/09 21 | |
LC Class | HD38.2 .B83 1999 |
First, Break All the Rules, subtitled What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999) is a self-help book authored by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman about improving employee satisfaction. The book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for 93 weeks. [1] Time magazine listed the book as one of "The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books". [2]
Buckingham and Coffman discuss the fallacies of standard management thinking and how good managers create and sustain employee satisfaction. The book is a result of observations based on 80,000 interviews with managers [3] as conducted by the Gallup Organization in the last 25 years.[ when?] The book goes into detail on debunking old myths about management, and gives advice to employers on how to obtain and keep talented people in their organization. [4]
Key ideas from the book include:
Author | Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman |
---|---|
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Management, employee satisfaction, motivating workers |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Published | May 1999 ( Simon & Schuster) |
Media type | Print, hardcover |
Pages | 271 |
ISBN | 0-684-85286-1 |
OCLC | 40762827 |
658.4/09 21 | |
LC Class | HD38.2 .B83 1999 |
First, Break All the Rules, subtitled What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (1999) is a self-help book authored by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman about improving employee satisfaction. The book appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for 93 weeks. [1] Time magazine listed the book as one of "The 25 Most Influential Business Management Books". [2]
Buckingham and Coffman discuss the fallacies of standard management thinking and how good managers create and sustain employee satisfaction. The book is a result of observations based on 80,000 interviews with managers [3] as conducted by the Gallup Organization in the last 25 years.[ when?] The book goes into detail on debunking old myths about management, and gives advice to employers on how to obtain and keep talented people in their organization. [4]
Key ideas from the book include: