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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
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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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 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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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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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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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.
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There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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