Quote

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

Marcus Buckingham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Toward
Trust
Idea
Ideas
Work
People
Intentions
Connecting
Intention

More quotes by Marcus Buckingham

Image
Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham