146 Quotes by Marcus Buckingham

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

As with all catalysts, the manager's function is to speed up the reaction between two substances, thus creating the desired end product. Specifically, the manager creates performance in each employee by speeding up the reaction between the employee's talent and the company's goals, and between the employee's talent and the customer's needs.

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

The time you spend with your best (employees) is, quite simply, your most productive time.

True individuality can be lonely.

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

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.