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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
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Strengths
Contribute
Identify
Challenge
Challenges
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Children

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Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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