Marcus Buckingham’s groundbreaking ideas about how to turn strengths into performance have changed the business world. Beginning with First, Break All The Rules, his books have sold more than four million copies, and he has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune,/ and Fast Company. His leadership development firm The Marcus Buckingham Company works with organizations worldwide, including Facebook, Kohl’s, Hilton, Accenture and The Gap, to achieve a straightforward but impactful mission: instill at scale the very few practices shared by the world’s best leaders. TMBC’s strengths-based performance platform StandOut, launched in 2011, reinvents performance management by providing team leaders with a light-touch, in-the-work tool to accelerate and evaluate employee performance.