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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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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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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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