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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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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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We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.
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It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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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Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.
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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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