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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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Rewards
Cases
Matter
Trying
People
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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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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We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
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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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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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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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