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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
Authenticity
Commodity
Precious
Leader

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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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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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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
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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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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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