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Marcus Buckingham (born 11 January 1966)[1] is a British author, motivational speaker and business consultant.

  • 2Life and career
  • 4Publications

Early life and education[edit]

Marcus Buckingham’s books have guided millions to become top performers in everything they do by focusing on their strengths. In Go Put Your Strengths to Work, a Wall Street Journal bestseller in hardcover, Buckingham will show you how to hone and apply your strengths for.

Buckingham was born on 11 January 1966, and was brought up in the village of Radlett, north of London. His father was the Personnel Director at Allied Breweries. Buckingham suffered from a substantial stammer which he initially found very difficult to overcome, and said he was unable to speak until the age of 13. He conquered it when asked to formally address other boys at his prep school, and pretended he was speaking to just one person, rather than 300. It proved a success: 'At my prep school, everyone knew I had a stammer. At my boarding school, nobody knew'.[2]

Buckingham was educated at Edge Grove School,[1] a boys' preparatory independent school in the village of Aldenham in Hertfordshire in Southern England, and then Aldenham School,[2] a boarding independent school for boys (near Aldenham), which he left in 1984,[3] followed by Pembroke College, Cambridge,[4] from which he graduated with a degree in Social and Political Sciences, in 1987.[2][5]

Life and career[edit]

While studying at Cambridge, Buckingham was recruited by educational psychology professor Donald O. Clifton, the founder of Selection Research, Incorporated (SRI). Clifton had co-founded SRI to develop interviews that would allow businesses to identify talents in individuals, to match people to the right roles.[6]

SRI acquired The Gallup Organization in 1988, and took on the Gallup name.[6] As part of Gallup, Buckingham became a member of a team working on a survey that measured a broad range of factors that contribute to employee engagement. Based on those surveys and on interviews with thousands of managers, Buckingham published (with coauthor Curt Coffman) First, Break All the Rules (Simon and Schuster, 1999). According to its subtitle, the book describes 'what the world's greatest managers do differently' The book became a New York Times best-seller[7] and has over a million copies in print. It was also chosen by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten as one of 'The 100 Best Business Books of All Time' in their book of the same name.

The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC)[edit]

In 2006, Buckingham started The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC) to create management training programs and tools. The company helped him to launch a coordinated series of products in conjunction with the publication of Go Put Your Strengths to Work. Most notable was Trombone Player Wanted, involving a young boy who wants to abandon playing the trombone in favour of the drums (apparently based on Buckingham's own experience in music classes as a boy). Together, the book and the film series became the basis of a TMBC workshop called Simply Strengths.

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TMBC was acquired by ADP, LLC in January 2017 (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/adp-acquires-marcus-buckingham-company-140000022.html)

Film and television appearances[edit]

In addition to the self-published short film series Trombone Player Wanted, Buckingham has made numerous television appearances as himself, on US television networks and cable channels including The View on ABC, I Want to Work for Diddy on VH1, The Oprah Winfrey Show on syndication, Good Morning America on ABC, The Today Show on NBC, Larry King Live on CNN and The Dave Ramsey Show on Fox Business Network.

Publications[edit]

  • First, Break All the Rules (with Curt Coffman; Simon & Schuster, 1999)
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths (with Donald O. Clifton; The Free Press, 2001)
  • The One Thing You Need to Know (The Free Press, 2005)
  • Go Put Your Strengths to Work (The Free Press, 2007)
  • The Truth About You (Thomas Nelson, 2008)
  • Find Your Strongest Life (Thomas Nelson, 2009)
  • StandOut: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution (Thomas Nelson, 2011)
  • StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths. Find Your Edge. Win at Work. (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015)
  • Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Review Press , 2019)

Articles[edit]

  • 'What's Happening to Women's Happiness?' (2009) — part I
  • 'Women's Happiness: What We Know for Certain' (2009) — part II

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ abJones, Del (3 March 2005). 'Business bows to an unlikely oracle: British boy wonder'. USA Today. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  2. ^ abcBlackhurst, Chris (5 December 2007). 'Playing to his strengths, the Beverly Hills Brit who's a self-help god'. London Evening Standard. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  3. ^'Notable OAs'(PDF). Aldenham School, Hertfordshire. Archived from the original(PDF) on 11 February 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. ^'Pembroke College - Cambridge Society Annual Gazette - Issue 84, September 2010 (pg.126 - 1984 - Marcus Buckingham)'(PDF). Pembroke College - Cambridge Society. September 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  5. ^'WEDDINGS;Ms. Rinzler, Mr. Buckingham'. New York Times. 17 March 1996. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  6. ^ ab'Corporate History'. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  7. ^'The New York Times Business Best Sellers'. New York Times. 10 October 1999. Retrieved 24 May 2011.

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Buckingham, an authority on workplace issues, provides a road map for managers to learn for themselves and then teach their employees how to approach their work by emphasizing their strengths rather than weaknesses. He offers a six-step plan for six weeks of reading and habit-forming action for discerning strengths, along with optional tools to enhance the process such as..more
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: Marcus Buckingham
Central Truths
1. The profitable question to ask is “How can we build the kind of workplace where more than two out of 10 people use their strengths for most of the day.
2. It is wise to look to a person’s behavior for clues to his underlying personality – it is wise to conclude that his underlying personality will be consistent across time and situations.
3. I will not learn and grow the most in my areas of weakness.
4. I will learn the most, grow th..more
Apr 01, 2019Annie rated it liked it · review of another edition
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I give this book 3.5 stars. The idea makes sense - build on your strengths rather than work on your weaknesses. This way, you go from good to great in using skills you enjoy. Most managers focus on addressing employees' weaknesses, which just brings that particular skillset from terrible to bad. The book expands on these steps to put your strengths to work:
1. Bust the myths (for example, you will grow by working on your weaknesses).
2. Get clear on what your strengths are.
3. Free your strengths (..more
Mar 26, 2011Daniel Taylor rated it really liked it
Shelves: own, books-read-in-2011, self-help, business
Last year I was reading in Success magazine about how two coaches approached giving feedback to their teams. The first coach made the team watch the video of the game and he pointed out everything the team did wrong. The second coach also made his team watch the replay, but he pointed out everything the team did right. Researchers found that the team that improved the most was the one where the coach had focused on his team's strengths.
In 'Go, Put Your Strengths to Work', Marcus Buckingham shows..more
I am not going to finish this book. Even though my boss told me to read it. I got up to page 160, which was like pulling teeth. The book says you shouldn't do this that make you feel tired and depleted, things that you dread doing. Well, that description perfectly fits how I feel about reading this book. Unless you're a complete moron, it will bore you to death to read this drivel.
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6 Powerful steps to achieve outstanding performance
1: Bust the myths
2: Get clear
3: Free your strengths
4: Stop your weaknesses
5: Speak up
6: Build strong habits
Sep 04, 2010Elizabeth is currently reading it · review of another edition
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Dec 28, 2012Erika RS rated it it was ok
I read this books as part of a reading group at work. It is a mediocre book with highly valuable information if you are willing to dig through the business speak and find it. As such, reading it in a group worked well. At our meetings, we were able to weed out the valuable information.
The theme of this book is that people do best when they focus on their strengths. This flies in the face of much popular wisdom which says that you should work to improve in your weakest areas. Instead, the author..more
Feb 28, 2009Lychee rated it liked it
The most useful of the books about the Clifton Strengths finder. Although it probably helped having read some of the other associated work, and being at an organization that uses this work. Not sure that I'll actually follow the suggested program, but it does give me something to aim towards. Most useful are its suggestions for taking the 'strengths themes' and turning them into something actually useful on the job. Wish I'd had some of these ideas at hand when I was younger and thinking about w..more
Too esoteric and not that helpful. Some of it is practical, some application is not. I think some of the skills he mentions are innately practiced by high-performing individuals, but the exercises as a whole don't add up for many. A bit of a snoozer for me. He is a bit full of himself, too.
Great book! This puts the focus on what you do best not what your weak points are. Great for college students or those out in the business world. Instead of focusing on those C's or D's focus on the A's and B's you get in school or in the real world.
As with the others in this series, this was a real eye-opener into what really motivates us and how to best capture- no, make that cultivate, peak performance from ourselves and our teams
Read MAY 2007
This is a must read for anyone struggling with being effective and/or lost in the mire of all the various systems and programs out there. Very simple. Very effective.
A good central idea -- you'll do your best work when you feel engaged, strong, and successful -- but not very useful overall. Why not?
1. Unsupported arguments. The three myths in Step 1 refer lightly to some twin studies, but overall, the reasoning given against the myths (and elsewhere in the book) is largely 'because I say so.'
2. Redefining ordinary terms. Previously, this author collaborated on an assessment named the StrengthsFinder. But now he says those aren't actually strengths, they're r..more
Once upon a time, about nine years ago, I read a book called 'Now, Discover Your Strengths' by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. It required me to take a survey online which asked me several questions about how I process information, relate to people, and so on, and then it gave me my top five 'strength talents,' things that I'm wired to do naturally. The premise of the book declared that by knowing these strengths, I could then start pursuing a career more meaningful to me, and that I wo..more

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I absolutely loved this book! It provides a clear template of how to work to your strengths, instead of to your weaknesses. Most people are conditioned to believe that we need to focus on improving our areas of weakness in order to grow, both personally and professionally. However, the opposite is actually true. You need to focus on where you are already strong, and continue to build upon and enhance those skills. It is then imperative to direct your work days so that most tasks being performed..more
This book was okay. I read it as part of a book club for work - the discussions we ended up having were excellent but the book itself was just okay. It starts off sounding extremely promising and in theory most of it is very promising. It can be very challenging to follow everything the book suggests to do but the least you can do is try and ask. The book itself was a bit boring at times and seems like it could have been condensed. Overall, it's a great thing to think about and consider (doing m..more
Feb 11, 2019Jeremy Vandelac rated it really liked it
Im stuck between a 3 and a 4. It has its moments, but to me it didnt quite hit my needs. I feel that I am aware of my strengths and weaknesses. I have put myself in place to use them as often as possible. I think this is a great book for someone that may be looking for a life change, or isnt happy with their current situation, which would move it to that 4 spot. Up and coming professionals should give this a try, maybe even young people that are torn about their future. But for me, didnt do me m..more
The book was ok. I appreciate the topic and Marcus Buckingham's work. The book just didn't add anything to my understanding how to work using my strengths. I've read several other books, so I think this book overlapped what I had read before.
The book came out in 2007, so 10 years later and the website Simply Strengths that he refers the reader to several times is no longer a domain he owns.
If you are new to Strengths studies, this may be a useful book. For me, it was just ok.
Feb 21, 2019Elitsa Ivanova rated it it was amazing
'Conventional wisdom tells us that out ideal job is far removed from our present situation, 'out there' somewhere in a mythic world where we are our own boss, telecommuting from our cabin in the hills, doing what we love, making loads of money along the way, disturbed only by the whinnying of our horse and the scent of the wet trees'.
In short, work on your strengths and not your weaknesses. There you don't have to read the book :p
Honestly, i read this book a while ago and I can't remember what this book taught me except for my first sentence about. This tells you about how unmemorable and un-epiphanizing this book is.
I had high expectations for this one as I really found First Break All the Rules to be inspiring, however I was disappointed with the format and reiteration of concepts.
The third book in his strength series, this book is designed to work with the short film “Trombone Player Wanted” (the first two parts of the film are provided free online with the purchase of the book) to promote strength-based organizations by stepping the reader through 6 chapters (he recommends doing one a week) to identify and grow your strengths in your work and life. Buckingham begins by having readers take the Strengths Engagement Survey (SET), to gauge the present involvement of their s..more
I read this one for work, as it had been recommended to us by our managers. It is therefore difficult for me to review the book without thinking of work, and this has likely influenced my review.
There is a number of interesting ideas in this book, and Buckingham challenges some well-worn ideas about people and how they work and grow in a manner that is successful. His base idea is that we will grow much more by focusing on our strengths and nurturing them than we will by trying to improve our we..more

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Apr 22, 2008Gary Smith rated it it was amazing
Are you jazzed up at the end of your work day or
burned out? Do you look forward to your work everyday?
Marcus Buckingham is after working for the Gallop organization for many years inteviewed thousands of companies and people about their work.
And found out some interesting data from which he has written a series of books.
His thesis is simple..you will accomplish the most in life by focusing on your strengths. In fact, by focusing on your strengths you will get huge leaps in your success levels t..more
A book to accompany the Strength Finder series.
Buckingham works through solid examples here and helps the reader to understand more about how to be effective as work.
At the same time getting clearer on more practical action steps would be great.
Overall decent book to read
Sep 14, 2012Robert Chapman rated it really liked it · review of another edition
As I mentioned in my previous review of Mojo, I inadvertently read a series of books which all follow similar themes with their own unique approach. Those themes are all about strengths, satisfaction, and energy. All of these things are vital to our work and personal lives if we intend to be happy, learn, and continue to grow.
Unlike Mojo, this book offers a more structured and scientific approach to identifying and making use of your strengths. The author states that only 17% of people, or 2 in..more
Oct 07, 2014Valerie Dykstra rated it really liked it
- As you grow, your personality doesn't change. You become more of who you already are.
- You will grow the most in your areas of greatest strength.
- A good team member volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time. A great team member is not well rounded. The great team is well rounded, precisely because each great team member is not.
- A strength is something in which you have consistent, near-perfect perfomance.
- Three ingredients combine to create a strength: 1) Talents. Because you ar..more
Sep 20, 2016Angela Lam rated it it was amazing
Shelves: readingraphics, productivity, motivation, learning-development
A great book for those who want to go beyond concepts of strengths-use and actually apply them. The book outlines in great detail how to identify your strengths and weaknesses, and what to do about them.
I started to try Steps 1-3 (out of the 6 steps) as I read the book. By the end of the week, I had finished the book and drafted my first set of strengths/ weakness statements. E.g.
“I feel strong when I offer solutions, either by integrating information and ideas into an actionable form, or by po..more
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It's a complex question, one that intrigued Cambridge-educated Marcus Buckingham so greatly, he set out to answer it by challenging years of social theory and utilizing his nearly two decades of research experience as a Sr. Researcher at Gallup Organization to break through the preconceptions about a..more
“Your childish clarity faded, and you started listening to the world around you more closely than you did to yourself. The world was persuasive and loud, and so you resigned yourself to conforming to its demands.” — 2 likes
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