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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
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Longest
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Sustained
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Time
Impact
Periods
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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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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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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CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying Our people are our greatest asset. And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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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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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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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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