Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham is a British-American New York Times best-selling author, researcher, motivational speaker and business consultant best known for promoting what he calls "Strengths." Basing most of his writing on extensive survey data from interviews with workers in countries around the world, he promotes the idea that people will get the best results by making the most of their strengths rather than by putting too much emphasis on weaknesses or perceived deficiencies...
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people trying rewards
In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it
sex humility pride
You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair
book thinking ideas
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
organization people corporations
Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.
names america odd
It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
boys men choices
Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.
oxygen people hatred
Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.
strong want culture
Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.
focus remember results
Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus.
jobs people quitting
People quit managers, not jobs.
jobs stars zuckerberg
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.
running simple emotional
Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.
unique patterns use
We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.
way path best-way
The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.