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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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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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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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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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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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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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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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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
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People should be hired as is and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.
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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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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.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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