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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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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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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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The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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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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