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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
Commodity
Precious
Leader
Authenticity

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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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