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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

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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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Hail
Neutral
Execution
Remain
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Creativity
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All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.
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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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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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In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.
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