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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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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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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.
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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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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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 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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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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Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
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Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.
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Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right seats), and then leveraging them.
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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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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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