Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Develop
Tasks
Greatest
Interest
Completing
Help
Aptitude
Individual
Hired
Helping
Strengths
People
Managers

More quotes by Marcus Buckingham

Image
All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?
Marcus Buckingham
Image
If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying Our people are our greatest asset. And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
Marcus Buckingham
Image
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!
Marcus Buckingham