Product Description

In the new short-film series, Trombone Player Wanted, Marcus Buckingham, best-selling author and one of Business Week's Best of 2006-Thought Leaders, teaches you how to discover your Strengths and put them to work. The bite-sized short films, six in the series and approximately 15 minutes in length, communicate to you in a way to drive your personal and team performance.

Trombone Player Wanted is a powerful tool that helps you discover and put your Strengths to work. Trombone Player Wanted is more than a short film series--it is a stirring new medium.

Each of the six films in Trombone Player Wanted provides powerful lessons for managers and employees striving to be more productive and more focused today than they were yesterday.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30420 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-06-04
• Formats: NTSC, Widescreen
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 82 minutes

About the Actor
Marcus Buckingham holds a master's degree in social and political science from Cambridge University and is a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management. Having interviewed thousands of people, Marcus Buckingham is widely considered one of the world's authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing. The definitive perspective on the strengths movement can be found in his best selling books "First, Break All The Rules" and "Now, Discover Your Strengths" while understanding the crucial difference between managing and leading may be found in his title, "The One Thing You Need To Know". Marcus lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.

Customer Reviews

Wow!
This video series (6 vignettes) is, in a word, amazing. Marcus Buckingham ("First, Break All the Rules") talks about strengths and weaknesses in a very new way. All the while, an unspoken and unnarrated story of a boy and a trombone goes on in parallel. As a corporate trainer, I'm skeptical about this stuff, and find most business videos overpriced, poorly acted, and not well-thought-out. Not so here, as Buckinham's message is clear, relevant, and very useful. Highly recommended.

Excellent video series
I read the book Go Put Your Strengths to Work and thought it was incredible. It's a drastic mind shift from the traditional "fix what's broken" attitude. This video series is incredibly inventive - it drives home a point while being interesting to watch. I intend on taking these videos and turning them into a development program for my employees.

Best creative video on the subject
When I first say this video, I was set back in amazement on how cleaver Marcus has made a "talking head" video. It is the best I've ever seen and the application is for all businesses and non-profits. I'm going to order 10 more to give to my business friends. I can't say enough to recommend this series. This is well done!