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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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Within
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Needs
Hire
Promote
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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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Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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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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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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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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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