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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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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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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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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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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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 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.
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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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