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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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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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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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