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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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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