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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.
Marcus Buckingham
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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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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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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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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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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.
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