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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

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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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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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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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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
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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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In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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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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Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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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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