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Marcus Buckingham

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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

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We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work. Marcus Buckingham

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people. Marcus Buckingham

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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day. Marcus Buckingham

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Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data. Marcus Buckingham

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Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part. Marcus Buckingham

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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples. Marcus Buckingham

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment. Marcus Buckingham

Life Practice Strongest Through Built Continuous Your Moment Designing

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground. Marcus Buckingham

Best Innovation Organization Fall Only Throughout Practices Fertile Sown Ground

People buy pads all the time, because they want to write stuff down. We're never going to get away from paper, ever. People like writing; that's why more people are writing more real thank-you notes now - not just to stand out, but because there's something about pen to paper, about holding something cool in your hands. Marcus Buckingham

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My career expertise is as a psychometrician - somebody who builds tests to measure personality. Companies would employ me to build interviews to measure the talents of people before they were hired. Marcus Buckingham

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Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year. Marcus Buckingham

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

Corporate Say Goodbye Traditional Need Universities

Though women begin their lives more fulfilled than men, as they age, they gradually become less happy. Men, in contrast, get happier as they get older. Marcus Buckingham

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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

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