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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
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Identify
Challenge
Challenges
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Others
Children

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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
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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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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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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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