All Marcus Buckingham Quotes
- It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple… Apple
- American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. American
- Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk. American
- Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace. Company
- I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out. Book
- Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground. Best
- It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain. America
- 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 expert… Better
- Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths. Been
- The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path. Best
- The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people. Appallingly
- The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each… Ability
- Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less. Become Increasingly
- Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we… Albums
- Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is… Brilliant
- We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work,… Always Within
- 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… Activities
- The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist. Follower
- 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… Advantage
- Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach… Advice
- 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. All
- In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of… Consistent
- The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it. Ask
- Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say… Best
- Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is,… Attention