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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
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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.
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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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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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