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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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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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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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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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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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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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