Marcus Buckingham

The opposite of a leader isn’t a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

Marcus Buckingham

You can find energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must learn how to catch them, hold on to them, to feel the pull of their weight and allow yourself to follow where they lead.

Marcus Buckingham

All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.

Marcus Buckingham

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

Marcus Buckingham

Any recurring patterns of behavior that can be productively applied are talents.

Marcus Buckingham

As oblivious as we can be to our own strengths, it’s even easier to ignore the particular and unique strengths of others.

Marcus Buckingham

Change the ideas and keep the forms the same, and you will have changed little.

Marcus Buckingham

Companies don’t have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.

Marcus Buckingham

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

Marcus Buckingham

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

Marcus Buckingham