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The Greatest Management Principle in the World
From the Preface to the Latest Edition
When The Greatest Management Principle in the World, aka, GMP was first published, it struck a nerve. One hundred thousand hardcover copies were printed, followed by many, many more in paperback. The book was translated and published in over a dozen languages. In addition to the book, a video division of Simon & Schuster produced several GMP videos, and the Nightingale-Conant Corporation published both single and six-cassette GMP audio programs. I was interviewed on Good Morning America, and spoke at numerous business and professional conferences from South Beach to Singapore.
My purpose in updating and republishing GMP is because the very simple principle it teaches is needed more than ever. Organizations as small as two-person households or as enormous as China ignore it every day. Once you learn the principle, look around and you’ll see what I mean.
Consciously practicing GMP enriches your life both monetarily and in many other ways. It draws people to you. Customers, colleagues, bosses, your spouse, your children, friends and anyone you come in contact with will like or love you all the more.
Fail to practice it at your own peril. You’ll find it much more difficult to work with your spouse, your children, your boss, colleagues at work or whomever. In some cases, the failure to understand and practice GMP has led to the downfall of nations. The Soviet Union is a case in point. Our own federal, state and local governments are abusing GMP to an increasing degree that has me seriously concerned. That’s covered later in the book.
The primary purpose of this book is to help you improve where you work or will be working. Most of all, I hope GMP causes you to think, look around, and take action to improve your workplace and your life in general.
In this newly revised and updated edition, you will read about real organizations successfully practicing GMP, how they go about making it work and how you can too. You will also read about other organizations, whose leaders create inefficiency, ineffectiveness and havoc by failing to understand and misapply this one very simple principle. If you want your workplace to be one of the former, please read on.
Michael LeBoeuf
Paradise Valley, Arizona
August 2014
When The Greatest Management Principle in the World, aka, GMP was first published, it struck a nerve. One hundred thousand hardcover copies were printed, followed by many, many more in paperback. The book was translated and published in over a dozen languages. In addition to the book, a video division of Simon & Schuster produced several GMP videos, and the Nightingale-Conant Corporation published both single and six-cassette GMP audio programs. I was interviewed on Good Morning America, and spoke at numerous business and professional conferences from South Beach to Singapore.
My purpose in updating and republishing GMP is because the very simple principle it teaches is needed more than ever. Organizations as small as two-person households or as enormous as China ignore it every day. Once you learn the principle, look around and you’ll see what I mean.
Consciously practicing GMP enriches your life both monetarily and in many other ways. It draws people to you. Customers, colleagues, bosses, your spouse, your children, friends and anyone you come in contact with will like or love you all the more.
Fail to practice it at your own peril. You’ll find it much more difficult to work with your spouse, your children, your boss, colleagues at work or whomever. In some cases, the failure to understand and practice GMP has led to the downfall of nations. The Soviet Union is a case in point. Our own federal, state and local governments are abusing GMP to an increasing degree that has me seriously concerned. That’s covered later in the book.
The primary purpose of this book is to help you improve where you work or will be working. Most of all, I hope GMP causes you to think, look around, and take action to improve your workplace and your life in general.
In this newly revised and updated edition, you will read about real organizations successfully practicing GMP, how they go about making it work and how you can too. You will also read about other organizations, whose leaders create inefficiency, ineffectiveness and havoc by failing to understand and misapply this one very simple principle. If you want your workplace to be one of the former, please read on.
Michael LeBoeuf
Paradise Valley, Arizona
August 2014
181 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 1, 1985
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April 3, 2022
Going through old books on my bookshelf. Read this while getting my doctorate in business. It’s a good read and includes what seems like simple advice, but is really strong business advice for anyone working in business today. For some people, managing people is difficult because they have a strong personality and they push their ideas on people instead of being a leader that others will easily follow. This book is for them. For some, management comes easily and they instinctively know how to lead. This book is not for them. :-)
January 8, 2023
GMP as your beacon in life
GMP is a great book with not only the management philosophy but the tool kit required to implement it. It is indeed about cooperating and collective intelligence for achieving common goals….the greatest strength of the homo-sapien.
GMP is a great book with not only the management philosophy but the tool kit required to implement it. It is indeed about cooperating and collective intelligence for achieving common goals….the greatest strength of the homo-sapien.
April 29, 2025
Simple and concise framework
November 29, 2013
Its a must have for every managers. And if you re not one, at least you'll get a lot of insights on how effective and efficient management system should be. Basically everything that gets rewarded gets done. It is even applicable to personal relationships ( yep no kidding, its the same system all along). I have yet found anybody who does not approve of this book being one of the best management books around. Definitely a must read
October 18, 2025
I read this book during early years of my career (i.e. few decades ago), but it made a huge impression on me and my thinking about management principles. The book is tiny, but its size masks the to-the-point knowledge and experiences distilled into simple words.
March 18, 2012
This book is perhaps one of the best management books I have read. I have given it to those I have trained and sent on to careers in managementt and supervising people.
May 23, 2015
GMP = the things that get rewarded get done.
November 30, 2015
One of the best, straight to the point management books you will read. Changed my approach, and life as a manager.
April 21, 2018
its an useful book
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