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Jim Clifton

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Jim Clifton is the chairman of Gallup, a global analytics and advice firm. Clifton served as the CEO of Gallup from 1988 until 2022, and is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller It's the Manager, the bestseller Born to Build, The Coming Jobs War, and writes The Chairman's Blog. He is the creator of the behavioral economic framework, “The Gallup Microeconomic Path,” a metric-based economic model that establishes the linkages among human nature in the workplace, customer engagement and business outcomes, which is used by over 500 companies worldwide. His father was psychologist, educator, and author Dr. Donald O. Clifton, who founded of Selection Research, Inc. (SRI). Under Jim's leadership, SRI acquired the Gallup Organization in 1988.
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It's the Manager: Moving From Boss to Coach

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Published by Gallup Press in May 2019, It's the Manager: Moving From Boss to Coach is a business leadership book by Jim Clifton, Chairman of Gallup, and Jim Harter, Ph.D., Gallup's Chief Scientist for Workplace. Drawing on Gallup's decades of workplace research, the book argues that the single biggest factor in organizational performance and employee engagement is the quality of the manager — and that today's workforce demands coaches, not commanders. It earned recognition as a Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller and remains a widely cited resource in management and human resources circles.

Reviewed Mar 27, 2026

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