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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.
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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.
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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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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.
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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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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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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