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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Path
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Looking
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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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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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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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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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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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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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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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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People should be hired as is and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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