Marcus Buckingham at THE FORUM 2010
- Psalms 18:32
- The difference between a good and bad marriage is not the number of fights, but what happens between the fights.
- Excellence is not the opposite of failure.
- Studying failure does not explain excellence.
- Any great company will have significant range in performance in its teams.
- Who sits on your personal board?
- Would you be on the personal board of the people that you lead?
- Think of the reason why you would have someone on your board.
- Those are the same things that the people you lead are expecting from you.
- You cannot be cowardly in leadership.
- Leaders need to define what quality looks like.
- Clarity is vital to leadership.
- The three most important questions that great leaders ask are: 1. Are my coworkers committed to quality work? 2. Do I know what is expected of me at work? and 3. At work do I have the chance to do what I do best everyday?
- The challenge of leadership is to multiply.
- Everybody has areas that they can get better at but greatest areas to get better at are at your strengths.
- Manage around your weaknesses. They are not areas of opportunity.
- Strengths are not what you are good at and your weaknesses are not what you are bad at!
- Strengths are activities that strengthens you and weaknesses are activities that weakens you.
- S= Success (if you feel effective), I = Instinct (You look forward to it), G= Growth (you feel focused), N= Needs (you feel fulfilled.)
- If you feel any of the above put them in the strengths category.
