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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Wants
Company
Keep
Women
Find
Every
Workplace
Talented
Highly

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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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.
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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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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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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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