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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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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
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Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.
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All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.
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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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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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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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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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Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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