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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.
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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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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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We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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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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