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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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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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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!
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Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.
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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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