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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

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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
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Intention
Toward
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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right seats), and then leveraging 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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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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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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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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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