Buckingham has taken his broad experience in management practices and employee retention and put it into two best selling books: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Best Managers Do Differently (Simon and Schuster) and Now, Discover Your Strengths (The Free Press). His most recent book, The One Thing You Need to Know, is a powerful concept based on leading and managing your organization.

Buckingham's presentations take the key points of these books, combined with plenty of great examples from a wide variety of organizations, to show audiences how they can learn from the world's best managers and leaders.

A wonderful resource for both Human Resources and Management issues, he challenges conventional wisdom and shows the link between employee opinions and productivity, profit, customer satisfaction, and the rate of turnover. Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University in 1987, with a master's degree in Social and Political Science.

He outlines four keys to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the right results, and selecting staff for talent - not just knowledge and skills. Buckingham also offers audiences specific techniques for helping people perform better on the job.

Rules are for breaking. Research indicates that great business managers have one thing in common - a willingness to break the rules, to step outside the boundaries. Marcus Buckingham takes this basic truth and applies it to the needs of his audience, unveiling new ways to exceed expectations and inspire colleagues.

Buckingham has spent the last decade helping clients find and motivate their most talented employees. He is co-author of the best seller First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently. The largest study of its kind, the book reveals practices that oppose conventional wisdom when it comes to successful managerial behavior. His next book, Now, Discover Your Strengths draws from the same study and focuses on key professional characteristics to help the reader identify their own hidden talents.

Buckingham's mission, as he describes it, sounds almost quaint: "to create a better marriage between the dreams of workers and the drive of companies to win."