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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.

Marcus Buckingham

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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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As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.
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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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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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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.
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The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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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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