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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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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
Human
Avoidable
Humans
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Waste
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Terrible
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Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
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As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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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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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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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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People should be hired as is and their managers then help them to develop their individual strengths while completing tasks for which they have the greatest aptitude and in which they have the greatest interest.
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