Marcus Buckingham

If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

Marcus Buckingham

If you want to be clear, act.

Marcus Buckingham

If you want to change your life so that others may benefit from your strengths, then change your values. Don’t waste time trying to change your talents.

Marcus Buckingham

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization – but only when they fall on fertile ground.

Marcus Buckingham

Leading is taking someone’s unique gifts and finding a way to help them contribute to the world.

Marcus Buckingham

Passion isn’t something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you’re actually doing every day.

Marcus Buckingham

People leave managers, not companies.

Marcus Buckingham

People on your team want two things: Make me feel a part of something bigger than me and make me feel special.

Marcus Buckingham

Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time.

Marcus Buckingham

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

Marcus Buckingham