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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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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 time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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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I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.
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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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