Author

Books by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall

Marcus Buckingham is a British-American author and researcher who spent twenty years at the Gallup Organization before founding his own research consultancy, now part of ADP. His books include Now, Discover Your Strengths, First, Break All the Rules (co-authored with Curt Coffman), and StandOut. He is known for popularizing the strengths-based approach to management and employee development. Ashley Goodall spent his career as a senior HR executive at Deloitte and Cisco, leading large-scale research into performance management. Nine Lies About Work draws on data from both their careers and represents their most direct challenge to mainstream HR practice.