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6 unusual facts about Marcus Buckingham

First, Break All the Rules

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

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Business authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman discuss the fallacies of standard management thinking and how good managers create and sustain employee satisfaction.

Jenifer Fox

In 2007, Jenifer traveled around the country on a bus tour with strengths pioneer Marcus Buckingham promoting the Strengths Movement, Buckingham wrote the foreword to Fox's book citing her vision for education as something revolutionary.

Marcus Buckingham

Some prominent feminists including Katha Pollitt and Barbara Ehrenreich criticized the book and a series of articles written by Buckingham in Huffington Post.

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Now, Discover Your Strengths is a self-help book written by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.

Two-factor theory

That said, a study by the Gallup Organization, as detailed in the book First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, appears to provide strong support for Herzberg's division of satisfaction and dissatisfaction onto two separate scales.