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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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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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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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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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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
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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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Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right seats), and then leveraging them.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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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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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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