Marcus Buckingham

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

Marcus Buckingham

You have a genius.

Marcus Buckingham

You should know that what wakes me up at night, what gets me running fast in the morning, and, frankly, what prompts me to lose any semblance of my habitual reserve is the conviction that work doesn’t have to be this grim. We can do better.

Marcus Buckingham

You shouldn’t take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair.

Marcus Buckingham

You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.

Marcus Buckingham

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

Marcus Buckingham

You won’t find a CEO who doesn’t talk about a ‘powerful culture’ as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you’d be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

Marcus Buckingham

A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.

Marcus Buckingham

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

Marcus Buckingham

CEOs hate variance. It’s the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

Marcus Buckingham