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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

Marcus Buckingham

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Weakness
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Grow
Least
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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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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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