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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

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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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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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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying Our people are our greatest asset. And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
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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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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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There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.
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