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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

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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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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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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Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.
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Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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 the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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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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