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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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