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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
Author
Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Britain
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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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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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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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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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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