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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Draw
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Waste

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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
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The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
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Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.
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CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying Our people are our greatest asset. And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
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Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.
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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.
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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
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Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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