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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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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 companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
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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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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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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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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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Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.
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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 corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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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 the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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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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Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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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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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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