Marcus Buckingham

Don’t helicopter in at seventeen thousand feet, because sooner or later you and your people will die on the mountain.

Marcus Buckingham

Don’t waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

Marcus Buckingham

During Gallup’s interviews with great managers, we found a consistent willingness to hire employees who, the managers knew, might soon earn significantly more than they did.

Marcus Buckingham

Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.

Marcus Buckingham

Getting after this terrible, avoidable waste of human potentiality is what gets me out of bed every morning.

Marcus Buckingham

Google and Facebook, each in their own way, have revolutionized the delivery of advertising based on search and social networking, creating a sort of anti-Spam: targeted, relevant ads that a consumer might actually welcome rather than spurn.

Marcus Buckingham

I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I’ll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be incapable of talking. I’m afraid that I’ll make a complete fool of myself and be unable to go on.

Marcus Buckingham

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

Marcus Buckingham

If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.

Marcus Buckingham

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

Marcus Buckingham