Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
Marcus Buckingham
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Obsessed
Hero
Mythologize
American
Iconoclastic
Culture
Charging
Hard
Visionaries
Important
Ceo
People
Heroes
Celebrate
More quotes by Marcus Buckingham
Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
Marcus Buckingham
Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
Marcus Buckingham
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.
Marcus Buckingham
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
Marcus Buckingham
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
Marcus Buckingham
Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.
Marcus Buckingham
Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
Marcus Buckingham
We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
Marcus Buckingham
Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
Marcus Buckingham
Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right seats), and then leveraging them.
Marcus Buckingham
A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
Marcus Buckingham
Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.
Marcus Buckingham
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
Marcus Buckingham
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
Marcus Buckingham
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.
Marcus Buckingham
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.
Marcus Buckingham
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.
Marcus Buckingham
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.
Marcus Buckingham
If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
Marcus Buckingham
