Wisdom from the books of Marcus Buckingham as recorded by Tom Peters

1. Why I Marcus
Buckingham

3. Marcus
Buckingham: The
One Thing You
Need to Know

4. One Thing:
Successful
Marriages!

5. Think of the most
generous
explanation for your
spouse’s behavior
and believe it!

6. “No matter what the situation, [the
great manager’s] first response is
always to think about the
individual concerned and how
things can be arra
rranged to help that
individual experience success.”
—Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know

7. “The key difference between
checkers and chess is that in
checkers the pieces all move the
same way, whereas in chess all
the pieces move differently. …
Discover what is unique about
each person and capitalize on it.”
—Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know

8. “The mediocre manager believes that most
things are learnable and therefore that the
essence of management is to identify each
person’s weaker areas and eradicate them. The
great manager believes the opposite. He
believes that the most influential qualities of a
person are innate and therefore that the
essence of management is to deploy these
innate qualities as effectively as possible and
so drive performance.” —Marcus Buckingham, The One
Thing You Need to Know

9. “I don’t know what
the final number
will be, but it
will be more than
we can bear.” —Rudy Giuliani
(from Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know)

10. “Sustained success
means making the
greatest possible impact
over the longest period
of time.”
—Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need
Marcus
to Know

11. “Discover what
you don’t like
doing and stop
doing it.”
—Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know

12. “Whenever you become aware
of some aspect you dislike,
do not try to work through
it. Do not chalk it up to
the realities of life. Do
not put up with it. Instead,
cut it out of your life as
fast as you can. Eradicate
it.”
—Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know
Marcus

13. “The one thi you need
thing
to know about sustained
individual success:
Discover what you don’t
like doing and stop
doing it.”
—Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You
Marcus
Need to Know

14. “It is
always
showtime.”
showtime.”
—David D’Alessandro, Career Warfare
David
(from Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know)