Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader. — Marcus Buckingham Authenticity Copy Share Image
No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them. — Marcus Buckingham Connecting Copy Share Image
What do we know to be important but are unable to measure? — Marcus Buckingham Important Copy Share Image
Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning. — Marcus Buckingham Bed Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything. — Marcus Buckingham Measure Copy Share Image
Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear. — Marcus Buckingham Answers Copy Share Image
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. — Marcus Buckingham Culture Copy Share Image
Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace. — Marcus Buckingham Business Copy Share Image
Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment. — Marcus Buckingham Built Copy Share Image
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. — Marcus Buckingham American culture Copy Share Image
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 Feels Copy Share Image
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how… — Marcus Buckingham Ability Copy Share Image
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 Coaching Copy Share Image
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 Bloody Copy Share Image
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is… — Marcus Buckingham Consistent Copy Share Image
There are "four keys" to becoming an excellent manager: finding the right fit for employees, focusing on strengths of employees, defining the… — Marcus Buckingham Becoming Copy Share Image
Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well… — Marcus Buckingham Cellars Copy Share Image
“The power of skills and knowledge is that they are transferable from one person to another. Their limitation is that they are… — Marcus Buckingham Knowledge Copy Share Image
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 Activity Copy Share Image
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 Concrete Copy Share Image
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 About Copy Share Image
Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a… — Marcus Buckingham Ads Copy Share Image
Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it,… — Marcus Buckingham Achieve Copy Share Image
“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 Dilemma Copy Share Image
You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the most creative, be the most inquisitive,… — Marcus Buckingham Advantage Copy Share Image
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 Action Copy Share Image
Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then… — Marcus Buckingham Advice Copy Share Image
Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less. — Marcus Buckingham Empty Copy Share Image
You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness. — Marcus Buckingham Areas Copy Share Image
The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people. — Marcus Buckingham Corporate Copy Share Image
Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear. — Marcus Buckingham Clarity Copy Share Image
The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. — Marcus Buckingham Followers Copy Share Image
