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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
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Hire
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Obviously
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Within
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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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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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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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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.
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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.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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.
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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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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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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
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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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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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