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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
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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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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The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
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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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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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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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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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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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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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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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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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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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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