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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use 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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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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.
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There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
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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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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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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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