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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Women
Increasingly
Empty
Feeling
Less
Lives
Feelings
Become

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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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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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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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In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
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Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
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