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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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Trust

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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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Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.
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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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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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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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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.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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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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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
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