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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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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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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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