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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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Ideas
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People
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Toward

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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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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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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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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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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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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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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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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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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