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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

Marcus Buckingham

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Precious
Leader
Authenticity
Commodity

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Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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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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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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People should be hired as is and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.
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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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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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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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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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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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