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:

…organizations will gradually spend more time and resources on those activities that add the greatest value…

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…most of us, when you look closely, have a combination of strengths and weaknesses that is not entirely predictable.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

Tragedy, so it’s said, is not the battle of right against wrong, it’s the inevitable clash of right against right.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…until you realize that it’s not your manager who controls how you spend your days and weeks at work… you will continue to be a victim of someone else’s circumstances.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

No matter how much your manager may like you, what you likes even more is getting things done.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

The best reason to take a job is always that the activities of the job itself intrigue you and strengthen you.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

…this strength of yours will not only showcase you in the most self-assured and confident light possible, it will also provide a core of certainty…

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

You can whine about it, or you can give of your best where you have the best to give, and reap the rewards of this excellence.

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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:

All any of us can do is know ourselves well enough to identify where our greatest possible contributions lie, and then do our utmost to make those contributions real.

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