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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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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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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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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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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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The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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