So in 1996 Marcus bucking him first onto the scene talking about these things called

strengths and how to harness them in a mega bestseller called the first break all the rules.

That was followed a couple years later by a book called Now Discover Your Strengths which

he co-wrote with Donald Clifton who's kind of like the father of strengths and it was

all about helping people flourish in work and life and that became a lifelong obsession

of his leading to a really widely acclaimed deeply rewarding career as a researcher developing

strengths based tools and insights first at Gallup and then launching his own consulting

firm the Marcus Buckingham Company.

So Marcus now leads the People in Performance Research team at ADP Research Institute and

remains the CEO of his consulting company and his latest book Nine Lies About Work takes

an in depth look at some of the biggest lies that pervade the way that we work the way

that we build organizations and lead some of the biggest mistakes that we make in building

our own careers and in leading ourselves and others and he also then reveals some of the

deeper truths or antidotes that put us back on the right track.

In today's conversation we dive into all of this his own personal journey his encyclopedic

knowledge of data and information and wisdom just dropping you know almost nonstop about

the way we work so fascinating so illuminating both to get to know him as a person and his

deep and insightful and incredibly valuable mind when it comes to the way that we make

decisions about our own work and life so excited to share this conversation with you

and by the way be prepared to be surprised and awakened a bit along the way.

I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.

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