Marcus Buckingham

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than 10,000 other people.

Marcus Buckingham

Focus on each person’s strengths and manage around his weaknesses. Don’t try to fix the weaknesses. Don’t try to perfect each person. Instead do everything you can to help each person cultivate his talents. Help each person become more of who he already is.

Marcus Buckingham

Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don’t hurt another’s physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what’s unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!

Marcus Buckingham

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

I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.

Marcus Buckingham

If you are innately skeptical of other people’s motives, then no amount of good behavior in the past will ever truly convince you that they are not just about to disappoint you. Suspicion is a permanent condition.

Marcus Buckingham

In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.

Marcus Buckingham

Life’s tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

Marcus Buckingham

Managers were encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

Marcus Buckingham

Many of us feel stress and overwhelm not because we’re taking on too much, but bc we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

Marcus Buckingham