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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

E140: How To Find Ultimate Fulfilment At Work: Marcus Buckingham

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Marcus Buckingham, is one of the world's most in-demand career experts and the author of several best-selling business books including, ‘First, Break All The Rules’, ‘Nine Lies About Work’ and ‘Love + Work’. He is known as the world’s most prominent researcher on strengths and leadership at work, and today leads research at the ADP Research Institute.

Marcus is used to consulting with teams at brands such as Disney, Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Facebook and focuses on strengths versus weaknesses, how to take feedback, how to build on strengths and identify leadership.

From struggling with a stammer in his early teens, to becoming a prolific public speaker, Marcus opens up about how he overcame it as well as touching on many other insightful topics. We talk about how to become a great manager, how to make your employees happy and what a strength really is. I want to thank Marcus for his enthusiasm and true love for what he knows so much about. I hope you will learn something from this because I certainly did.


Topics:

  • Overcoming a stammer to become a public speaker
  • Starting your journey in Physiology
  • How do I know what a strength is?
  • How do I ask a good question?
  • The biggest predictor of employee satisfaction
  • How to manage under performers
  • Dealing with people that don't do things the way you do them
  • Your book Love + Work
  • Should we be dragged by what we’re good at in a job we hate?
  • How did you overcome your job challenges?
  • Promotions and helping people grow
  • How to have a successful relationship
  • The last guest's question


Marcus'

book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Work-Find-What-Rest-ebook/dp/B08T24QK35


Marcus:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mwbuckingham

https://www.instagram.com/marcusbuckingham/


Watch the episodes on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheDiaryOfACEO/videos


Follow us on Telegram: https://t.me/diaryofaceo



Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Craftd - https://bit.ly/3JKOPFx

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.6

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0:07.8

I lost my dad I lost my marriage I saw my company then you sort of ask yourself what you're doing with your life

0:14.9

My name's Marcus Buckingham. He's the best-selling author a rock star in corporate America

0:19.5

I couldn't say my own name until I was 12 the more you try to fix a stammer the worse it gets from a very early age

0:26.7

We start telling people that a strength is what you're good at, but yeah, I'm good at some things

0:30.3

I hate what's that that's a weakness. I had got myself into position where I was solely responsible for one

0:37.8

Huge client, Disney. I looked like I sort of feel confident, but I had years of panic attacks

0:44.5

It was super psychologically

0:46.5

Damaging to be trying to be somebody that you're not the first relationship you better have is a really good one with yourself

0:53.5

The best people in any job they find love in the activities themselves

0:58.4

Love is for work and workers for love and if we do that

1:01.3

It's not just individually satisfying. It's what companies want from us

1:07.0

So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the Diro of a CEO USA edition

1:12.7

I hope nobody's listening, but if you are then please keep this yourself

1:25.6

Marcus, it's a pleasure to have you here in our studio here in LA another Brit

1:29.4

So we've had a quite a few Brit's in but you're one that's particularly inspired me with your work

1:34.6

And when I was doing the research on you and reading through your book and your prior book

1:39.0

I I was overwhelmed with the amount of questions I wanted to ask you because of the the depth of knowledge

1:46.0

But also how much the topics you talk about resonate with me the place I wanted to start with you though that I found particularly

1:51.8

Surprising having met you having spoken to you having seen how people have

1:56.4

Become very enamored with you as a public speaker is you started your life with a stammer. Yes

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