Quote

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

Marcus Buckingham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
America
Odd
Britain
Name
Names
Known
Bigs

More quotes by Marcus Buckingham

Image
Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right seats), and then leveraging them.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
Marcus Buckingham
Image
It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
Marcus Buckingham