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Marcus Buckingham

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I’ll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I’m afraid that I’ll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

Myself, Fool, People

Marcus Buckingham

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization – but only when they fall on fertile ground.

Innovation, Fall

Marcus Buckingham

You won’t find a CEO who doesn’t talk about a ‘powerful culture’ as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you’d be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

Time, Culture, Powerful

Marcus Buckingham

Strengths are not activities you’re good at, they’re activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you’re doing it you look forward to doing it; while you’re doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you’ve done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

Time, Good, You

Marcus Buckingham

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.

Day, Passion, Sky

Marcus Buckingham

The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules of conventional wisdom.

Marcus Buckingham

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.

happiness, motivational, strong

Marcus Buckingham

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

leadership, management

Marcus Buckingham

In fact, over the last twenty years, authors have offered up over nine thousand different systems, languages, principles, and paradigms to help explain the mysteries of management and leadership.

Marcus Buckingham

Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers: People don’t change that much.Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out.Try to draw out what was left in.That is hard enough.

Marcus Buckingham

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

Marcus Buckingham

The Four Keys of Great Managers:1. “When selecting someone, they select for talent … not simply experience, intelligence or determination.”2. “When setting expectations, they define the right outcomes … not the right steps.”3. “When motivating someone, they focus on strengths … not on weaknesses.”4. “When developing someone, they help him find the right fit … not simply the next rung on the ladder.