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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leader authenticity commodity
Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
organization helping strategy
The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.
leader anxiety answers
Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.
perfect choices risk
If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.
inspirational want clear
If you want to be clear, act.
inspiring cease
We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
ideas people intention
No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.
class long leader
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.
office inspire coaching
To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.
being-yourself art hurt
"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!"
genius great-men triggers
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.
inspiring practice design
Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
motivational hard-work needs
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
dream passion sky
Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.