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The One Thing You Need to Know
By Marcus Buckingham

?The One Thing You Need to Know? discussed The ?one thing? that a person should know when it comes to leadership, management, and personal success.

Buckingham?s ?one-liners? offered solutions to our most complex questions.

I. What is the one thing you need to know about happy marriage?

Find the most generous explanation for each other?s behavior and believe it.

II. The difference between a leader and a manager?

A manager?s starting point is the individual employee. The leader?s focus is better future.
Thus, great leaders rally people to a better future.

The Four Skills You Simply Must Learn if you are not to fail as a manager:

Select good people.
Define clear expectations.
Make immediate praise a constant, predictable, and certain part of your management style.
Show care for your people.

Great managers play Chess. Learn how each piece moves and then incorporate these unique moves into your over-all plan of attack.

III. What is the one thing you need to know about management?

Discover what is unique about each person and capitalize on it.

The great manager 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 to drive performance.

IV. The One thing you need to know about great leading:

A leader wins our loyalty.

Discover what is universal and capitalize on it.

Five Fears of the Human Race

Fear of death?the need for security
Fear of the outsider- the need for community
Fear of the future?the need for clarity
Fear of chaos?the need for authority
Fear of insignificance?the need for respect

Effective leaders need to be clear.

V. The one thing you need to know about sustained individual success?

Discover what you don?t like doing and stop doing it.

Genetic differences cause your mind to become wired with a unique network of synaptic connections, which, in turn creates in you distinct patterns of thought, feeling, learning, memory, and behavior. While you continue to learn throughout your adulthood, you will learn the most in those areas where you already know the most, where your synaptic branches are already thick and strong. You will feel more positive and energized when you avoid thinking deeply about past struggles and instead focus your past achievements.

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