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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
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Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
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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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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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Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
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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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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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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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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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