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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
Leader
Authenticity
Commodity
Precious

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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
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All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.
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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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 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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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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