Marcus Buckingham Quotations

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

True individuality can be lonely.