Marcus Buckingham

True individuality can be lonely.

— Marcus Buckingham

Great leaders rally people to a better future.

— Marcus Buckingham

If you want to be clear, act.

— Marcus Buckingham

People leave managers, not companies

— Marcus Buckingham

My point is, people really don't change very much.

— Marcus Buckingham

People quit managers, not jobs.

— Marcus Buckingham

Discover what you don't like doing and stop doing it.

— Marcus Buckingham

Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

— Marcus Buckingham

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

— Marcus Buckingham

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

— Marcus Buckingham

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

— Marcus Buckingham

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

— Marcus Buckingham

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

— Marcus Buckingham

There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

— Marcus Buckingham

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

— Marcus Buckingham

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

— Marcus Buckingham

“that all salespeople are different, that all accountants are different, that each individual, no matter what his chosen profession, is unique.”

— Marcus Buckingham

If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making…

— Marcus Buckingham

Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well…

— Marcus Buckingham

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is…

— Marcus Buckingham

There are "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the…

— Marcus Buckingham

We're all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique - they're called talents. And our charge is to bloody well…

— Marcus Buckingham

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.

— Marcus Buckingham

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little…

— Marcus Buckingham

People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever.…

— Marcus Buckingham

Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised…

— 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…

— Marcus Buckingham

“The power of skills and knowledge is that they are transferable from one person to another. Their limitation is that they are…

— Marcus Buckingham

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had…

— Marcus Buckingham

Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices…

— Marcus Buckingham

“So this is (a manager's) dilemma: The manager must retain control and focus people on performance. But she is bound by her…

— Marcus Buckingham

You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the most creative, be the most inquisitive,…

— Marcus Buckingham

When it comes to exploring your creative side, it's very easy to think of all the reasons you can't do it-you don't…

— Marcus Buckingham

Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then…

— Marcus Buckingham

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

— Marcus Buckingham

What do we know to be important but are unable to measure?

— Marcus Buckingham

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

— Marcus Buckingham

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

— Marcus Buckingham

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

— Marcus Buckingham

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

— Marcus Buckingham