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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
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Rally
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Integrity
Better
Unique
Different
Toward
Something
Creativity
People
Courage
Leader
Future

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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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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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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying Our people are our greatest asset. And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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 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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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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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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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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