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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

How To Find Ultimate Fulfilment At Work: Marcus Buckingham

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Business, Society & Culture, Education

4.517.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 99 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. Follow Marcus: Twitter - https://twitter.com/mwbuckingham Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/marcusbuckingham Marcus' book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Work-Find-What-Rest-ebook/dp/B08T24QK35 Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

0:37.2

My name is Marcus Buckingham he's a best-selling author a rock star in corporate America I couldn't say my own name until I was 12.

0:45.3

The more you try to fix a stammer, the worse it gets.

0:48.2

From a very early age, we start telling people

0:49.9

that a strength is what you're good at.

0:51.0

But yeah, I'm good at some things I hate. What's that?

0:53.9

That's a weakness. I had got myself into position where I was solely responsible for one huge

1:00.5

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

1:07.0

It was super psychologically damaging to be trying to be somebody that you're not. The first relationship you better have is a really good one with yourself.

1:16.0

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

1:21.0

Love is for work and work is for love, and if we do that, it's not just

1:24.5

individualistically satisfying, it's what companies want from us.

1:28.2

So without further ado, I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the diary of a CEO USA Edition. I hope nobody's listening

1:36.4

but if you are then please keep this to yourself. Marcus, it's a it's a pleasure to have you here in our studio here in LA, another Brit, so we've had quite a few Brits in, but you're one

1:55.1

that's particularly inspired me with your work.

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