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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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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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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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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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