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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!
Marcus Buckingham
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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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