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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
Aptitude
Help
Hired
Individual
Strengths
Helping
Managers
People
Develop
Tasks
Greatest
Completing
Interest

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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.
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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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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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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.
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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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Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.
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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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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
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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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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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