马克斯·巴金汉

马克斯·巴金汉（英文：Marcus Buckingham）是一名作家、演讲者及商业顾问。马克斯·巴金汉致力于释放人类的天赋能力，提高公司职员的绩效并开创未来人们的工作方式。

学习生涯

马克斯·巴金汉曾就读于埃奇格罗夫学校（一所位于英格兰南部赫特福德郡阿尔登纳姆村的男子预科私立学校），之后就读于阿尔登纳姆学校（一所寄宿制的男孩立私立学校），及在1987年毕业于剑桥大学彭布罗克学院，获得了社会政治学学位。

职业生涯

在剑桥大学学习期间，著名的教育心理学教授当奴·克利夫顿招募了马克斯·巴金汉进入选择研究公司。选择研究公司于1988年收购了盖洛普国际研究教育中心，并以盖洛普为名。作为盖洛普国际研究教育中心的一部分，马克斯·巴金汉也成为盖洛普国际研究教育中心的成员，并与库特·科夫曼合著了《首先，打破成规──八万名杰出经理人的共通特质》。马克斯·巴金汉主持多项职场绩效的研究，后来成为作家、研究员以及演说家，每年对全球超过250万名听众演说。

主要理念

马克斯·巴金汉认为人们应该专注于发挥自己的天赋，而不用担心自己的劣势。 作为研究人员，马克斯·巴金汉证明了培养员工的天赋优势与公司成功之间的相关性。 马克斯·巴金汉最近的研究着眼于人类的实际工作方式，他解开了工作评估如何影响绩效的发现，发现管理人员常常会在不知不觉中产生偏见和无益的反馈。

著作

《首先，打破成规──八万名杰出经理人的共通特质》(与库特·科夫曼合著、吴四明译)

《发现我的天材: 打开34个天赋的礼物》(与当奴·克利夫顿合著)

《你必须知道的一件事》

《活用我的工作天才》

《关于工作的9大谎言》 (与艾希利·古德合著、李芳龄译)

《在每个位子上发光：巧用你的工作天赋》(罗雅萱译)

Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham (born 11 January 1966) is an English author, motivational speaker and business consultant based in California.

Early life and education

Buckingham was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and grew up in the village of Radlett, Hertfordshire. His father was the Personnel Director at Allied Breweries. Buckingham had a stammer which he initially struggled with, and said he was unable to speak until the age of 13. He learned to manage it when asked to formally address other boys at his prep school, and pretended he was speaking to just one person, rather than 300. It proved a success: "At my prep school, everyone knew I had a stammer. At my boarding school, nobody knew."

Buckingham was educated at Edge Grove School, a boys' preparatory independent school in the village of Aldenham in Hertfordshire in Southern England, and then Aldenham School, a boarding independent school for boys (near Aldenham), which he left in 1984, followed by Pembroke College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a degree in Social and Political Sciences, in 1987.

Career

While studying at Cambridge, Buckingham was recruited by educational psychology professor Donald O. Clifton, the founder of Selection Research, Incorporated (SRI). Clifton had co-founded SRI to develop interviews that would allow businesses to identify talents in individuals, to match people to the right roles.

SRI acquired The Gallup Organization in 1988, and took on the Gallup name. As part of Gallup, Buckingham became a member of a team working on a survey that measured a broad range of factors that contribute to employee engagement. Based on those surveys and on interviews with thousands of managers, Buckingham published (with coauthor Curt Coffman) First, Break All the Rules (Simon and Schuster, 1999). According to its subtitle, the book describes "what the world's greatest managers do differently" The book became a New York Times best-seller and has over a million copies in print. It was also chosen by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten as one of "The 100 Best Business Books of All Time" in their book of the same name.

The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC)

In 2006, Buckingham started The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC) to create management training programs and tools. The company helped him to launch a coordinated series of products in conjunction with the publication of Go Put Your Strengths to Work. Most notable was Trombone Player Wanted, involving a young boy who wants to abandon playing the trombone in favour of the drums (apparently based on Buckingham's own experience in music classes as a boy). Together, the book and the film series became the basis of a TMBC workshop called "Simply Strengths".

TMBC was acquired by ADP, LLC in January 2017.

Film and television appearances

In addition to the self-published short film series Trombone Player Wanted, Buckingham has made numerous television appearances as himself, on US television networks and cable channels including The View on ABC, I Want to Work for Diddy on VH1, The Oprah Winfrey Show on syndication, Good Morning America on ABC and The Jane Pauley Show.

Personal life

Buckingham and American author Jane Rinzler married in 1996 and divorced in 2017. They have a son, Jack, and a daughter, Lilia. He lives in California.

Publications

First, Break All the Rules (with Curt Coffman; Simon & Schuster, 1999)

Now, Discover Your Strengths (with Donald O. Clifton; The Free Press, 2001)

The One Thing You Need to Know (The Free Press, 2005)

Go Put Your Strengths to Work (The Free Press, 2007)

The Truth About You (Thomas Nelson, 2008)

Find Your Strongest Life (Thomas Nelson, 2009)

StandOut: The Groundbreaking New Strengths Assessment from the Leader of the Strengths Revolution (Thomas Nelson, 2011)

StandOut 2.0: Assess Your Strengths. Find Your Edge. Win at Work. (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015)

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Review Press, 2019)

Love+Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) ISBN 978-1647821234