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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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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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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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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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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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People should be hired as is and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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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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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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