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 anxiety answers
Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.
organization helping strategy
The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.
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.
stress too-much littles
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.
leader authenticity commodity
Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
boss choices fuel
Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
feels
A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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.
leader clarity preoccupation
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.
people leader great-leader
Great leaders rally people to a better future.
fixing weakness maximizing
You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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.
dream goal house
We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
way path best-way
The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.