Book Titles

Go Put Your Strengths to Work
6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance

By Marcus Buckingham

Year Published: 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0743261678
Categories: Performance, Strength, Work

39 Quotes Found

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

The radical idea at the core of the strengths movement is that excellence is not the opposite of failure, and that, as such, you will learn little about excellence from studying failure.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…all we learn from mistakes are the characteristics of mistakes. If we want to learn about our successes, we must study strengths.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…a person or an organization will excel only by amplifying strengths, never by simply fixing weaknesses.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…each of us is at our most creative, our most innovative, and shows our best judgment precisely in our areas of greatest strength.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

You don’t focus on people’s strengths to make them happier. You do it to make them better performers.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

Most of us have heard the voice of our strengths loudly enough to seek out roles that call upon some aspects of our strengths…

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

You have development needs… but… you will learn the most, grow the most, and develop the most in your areas of greatest strength.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

Your strengths are your multiplier. Your strengths magnify you.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

Specialization: It’s nature’s strategy for winning.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

Find your natural advantages, and you are more likely to thrive…

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