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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
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Hire
Promote
Obviously
Soon
Meet
Within
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Needs

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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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