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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
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Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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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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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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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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Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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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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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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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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