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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Measure
Almost
Anything
Mechanisms
Shortage
Mechanism

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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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It remains true that great managers recognize individualities and focus on developing strengths rather than weaknesses. Great leaders, in sharp contrast, recognize what is (or could be) shared in common - a vision, a dream, a mission, whatever - and inspire others to join them in the given enterprise.
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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
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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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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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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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Remember, what you focus on expands results follow focus.
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Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
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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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American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
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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.
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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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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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The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.
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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
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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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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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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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