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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Helping
Strengths
Work
Studying
People
Identify
Corporations
Helps
Organization
Build

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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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 best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
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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.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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