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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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'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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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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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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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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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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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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