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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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As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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