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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.

Marcus Buckingham

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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 secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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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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