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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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People
Excel
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Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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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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I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.
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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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Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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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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We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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