First, Break All the Rules

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First, Break All the Rules
Book Cover
Author	Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject(s)	Management, Employee satisfaction, Motivating workers
Genre(s)	Nonfiction
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	May, 1999
Media type	Print, Hardcover
Pages	271
ISBN	ISBN 0-684-85286-1

First, Break All the Rules (1999) is a book authored by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman who try to offer solutions to better employee satisfaction with the help of examples of how the best managers handle employees. The book gained popularity among managers since its release. The subtitle of the book is: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently.

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Business authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman tackle the fallacies of standard management thinking and how good managers create and sustain employee satisfaction in First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. The book is a result of observations based on 80,000 interviews with managers^[1] as conducted by the Gallup Organization in the last 25 years. The core of the matter lies in how these managers have debunked old myths about management and how they created new truths on obtaining and keeping talented people in their organization. Some key ideas of the book include what the best managers do and don’t do: they treat every employee as an individual; they don’t try to fix weaknesses, but instead focus on strengths and talent; and they find ways to measure, count, and reward outcomes.

According to the authors, the basic things all managers should know are what the employee is expected to do, how to equip him to do it, and how to give praise for a job well done.