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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
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Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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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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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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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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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.
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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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.
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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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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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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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