Marcus Buckingham

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 co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

Marcus Buckingham

It’s odd that I’m a big name in America and not known in Britain.

Marcus Buckingham

My point is, people really don’t change very much.

Marcus Buckingham

The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

Marcus Buckingham

the only truth is your own. The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares.

Marcus Buckingham

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.

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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

Marcus Buckingham

This can be both a blessing and a curse. You are blessed with a wonderfully unique filter but cursed with a systematic inability to understand anybody else’s.

Marcus Buckingham

Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older.

Marcus Buckingham

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