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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.

Marcus Buckingham

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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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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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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