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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.

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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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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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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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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 live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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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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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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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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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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