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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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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.
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Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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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Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!
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