Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to… — Marcus Buckingham 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 Copy Share Image
We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product.… — Marcus Buckingham 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 as a… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
You can find energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must learn how to catch them, hold on… — Marcus Buckingham 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 often situation-specific… — Marcus Buckingham 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 use them. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people. — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success. — Marcus Buckingham 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 how many… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
