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:

True teamwork occurs only when a complementary set of strengths comes together in a coordinated whole.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

A good team member deliberately volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…it’s human nature to want to put as positive a spin as possible on who we are, at least in terms of how we present ourselves to the outside world.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…your strengths are more than merely what you’re good at.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

You may feel a twinge of fear, but, unprompted, you put yourself in situations where you will have to perform [your instinctual strengths].

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…each of us is at our personal peak of happiness when we are deeply immersed in a specific activity.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

Your strengths are those activities that make you feel strong.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…your appetites drive your abilities. At least those that last.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…conventional wisdom is correct to say that you tend to get good at those activities you practice.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

Very few of us maintain a strong appetite for an activity in which we clearly have no ability.

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