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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
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Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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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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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.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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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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When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
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