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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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Studying
People
Identify
Corporations
Helps
Organization
Build
Study
Helping
Strengths

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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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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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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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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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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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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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Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.
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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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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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