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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.

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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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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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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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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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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Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
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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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In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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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Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right seats), and then leveraging them.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.
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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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