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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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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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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Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
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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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We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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