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Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right seats), and then leveraging them.

Marcus Buckingham

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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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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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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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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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The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.
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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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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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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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If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.
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