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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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Cases
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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People should be hired as is and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.
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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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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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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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