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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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Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.
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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.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
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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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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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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.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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