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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?

Marcus Buckingham

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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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Measure
Important

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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.
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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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