Marcus Buckingham Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“Every company wants to know how to find and keep highly talented women in the workplace.”

“The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.”

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

“Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.”

“You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.”

“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.”

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

“When you feel as though you can't do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it's just a simple step, and don't stop at the beginning.”