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
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
What do we know to be important but are unable to measure? — Marcus Buckingham Important Copy Share Image
We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities. — Marcus Buckingham Corporate Copy Share Image
“that all salespeople are different, that all accountants are different, that each individual, no matter what his chosen profession, is unique.” — Marcus Buckingham Alike 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
If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making… — Marcus Buckingham Choice 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
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
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
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
Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths. — Marcus Buckingham Company 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
“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
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 Albums 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
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
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and… — Marcus Buckingham Better future Copy Share Image
Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures… — Marcus Buckingham Cameras 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
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
You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness. — Marcus Buckingham Areas 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 Cases Copy Share Image
Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time — Marcus Buckingham Impact Copy Share Image
As a general rule, people tend to do best what they enjoy doing most. — Marcus Buckingham Enjoy Copy Share Image
If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success. — Marcus Buckingham About success Copy Share Image
It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain. — Marcus Buckingham America Copy Share Image
A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened. — Marcus Buckingham Feel Copy Share Image
I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out. — Marcus Buckingham Book Copy Share Image
You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses. — Marcus Buckingham Fixing Copy Share Image
Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk. — Marcus Buckingham Americans Copy Share Image
