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I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Book
#Business
#Good
#I Think
#Think
Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Doing
#Empty
#Feeling
#More
#Women
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 person's trigger.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Ability
#Genius
#Great
#Person
#True
Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Delivery
#Google
#Search
#Way
#Welcome
When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Action
#Beginning
#Process
#Simple
#Step
A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Energy
#Envy
#Goals
#Looking
#Nice
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Best
#Fall
#Innovation
#Organization
Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Generation
#Just
#Me
#Pampered
#Parents
Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Feel
#Momentum
#Need
#Pressure
#Work
We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Goodbye
#Need
#Say
#Universities
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, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Clean
#Doing
#Dreams
#House
#Work
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 people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Everything
#Love
#Passion
#People
#Sound
The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Best
#Find
#Looking
#Path
#Way
Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Feel
#Overwhelmed
#Stress
#Too Much
#Us
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 to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.
- Marcus Buckingham
#Doing
#Good
#Look
#Strength
#Time
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