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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
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Book
Good
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Richly
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Coherent
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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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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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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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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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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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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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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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.
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It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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