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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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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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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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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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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying Our people are our greatest asset. And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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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