Marcus Buckingham on the four questions he asks himself every week

My guest today is Marcus Buckingham. Marcus is the author of a stack of best-selling books, including First, Break All the Rules, Now, Discover Your Strengths, The One Thing You Need to Know, and Stand Out, to name a few. His latest book, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Publishing, 2019) takes an in-depth look at the lies that pervade our workplaces and the core truths that will help us change it for the better. Marcus has appeared on “Larry King Live,” “The Today Show” and “The Oprah Winfrey Show” and now leads People + Performance research at the ADP Research Institute and remains CEO The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC). I was keen to get Marcus on the show as he is someone who challenges the status quo of how organisations operate, and I was keen to see how he had applied his advice in his own life. In our chat, we cover:The four questions Marcus asks himself every weekWhy "do what you love" is bad adviceWhy “work-life balance” is an unhelpful conceptHow Marcus has reduced the amount of work he loathes and increased the amount of work he lovesHow Marcus reframed how he thinks about networking and mingling to find it more enjoyableHow Marcus made firing people a less awful taskMarcus’s process for creating great keynote presentationsHow Marcus thinks about the opening of his speechesWhy the annual planning process organisations use is broken - and how to fix itWhy Marcus thinks about work as a collection of projects Find out more about Marcus via his website, get your hands on his most recent book Nine Lies About Work, and sign up to the Freethinking Leader Coalition. Visit https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write a short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at http://howiwork.co   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.