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1-on-1: Marcus Buckingham

by Sandra Bienkowski

Success Magazine

Monday, November 30, 2009 - 12:00

Strengthening Your Self-Discovery

SUCCESS: What are the best ways for people to discover their strengths?

Marcus Buckingham: It’s ironic that your strengths can be so easy to overlook, because they’re clamoring for your attention in the most basic way: Using them makes you feel strong. All you have to do is teach yourself to pay attention. Try to be conscious of yourself and how you feel as you’re completing your day-to-day tasks.

Most of the time, we’re so focused on getting our work done that we don’t really have time to notice how we feel about it. At the end of the day, we go home and tell our loved ones that it was a good day or a bad day, but we haven’t made the effort to notice why the day feels good or bad as it happens. When you make the conscious effort to notice yourself at work (or at play, for that matter), you will find that you experience what I call “strong-moments” throughout your day—times when you feel invigorated, inquisitive, successful. Those moments are the best clues as to what your strengths are.

How Women Handle Success

by BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 12:00

Marcus Buckingham, author of Find Your Strongest Life talks to a panel of high-achieving women about success

In his latest book, Find Your Strongest Life, best-selling author Marcus Buckingham set his sights on analyzing what the happiest and most successful women have in common. BusinessWeek invited Buckingham and several dozen readers to an Oct. 7 breakfast at the midtown Manhattan headquarters of BusinessWeek for a panel discussion with four top female executives.

The panelists, all of whom have been successful in managing their own careers while also helping foster a culture of leadership within their companies, were Andrea Wong, CEO of Lifetime Networks; Geralyn Breig, president for North America at Avon Products (AVP); Susan Peters, chief learning officer at General Electric (GE); and Billie Williamson, inclusiveness officer for the Americas at Ernst & Young.

Here are edited excerpts of their conversation.

Words of Wisdom From Strong Women

by Marcus Buckingham

The Huffington Post

Monday, October 19, 2009 - 12:00

In the course of our research for Find Your Strongest Life,
we interviewed many women who had been extraordinarily successful, and
had created a fulfilling, satisfying life. These interviews were
wide-ranging, vivid and punchy. In my last couple of posts, I have described the “catch-and-cradle” approach to life
shared by many of these women. In this post, I’m going to draw directly
from the women themselves. Here are four of the most distinctive pieces
of advice that were shared.

The Most Influential Management Gurus

by Klaus Kneale

Forbes

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 12:00

Consulting firm CrainerDearlove compiled this list of today's top thinkers.

Leadership consulting firm CrainerDearlove
surveyed 3,500 people and a panel of experts to determine the 2009
edition of the Thinkers 50, a biennial list of the most influential
living management thinkers.

For more about the list, see “The Most Influential Business Thinkers.”

Marcus Buckingham on Strong Women

by Diane Brady

BusinessWeek

Monday, October 12, 2009 (All day)

The management guru talks happiness

Management consultant and best-selling author Marcus Buckingham talks with Senior Editor Diane Brady about the growing dissatisfaction among women, and the common strengths of those who succeed.

Quiz: Where Can You Find Happiness?

by The Today Show

MSN

Monday, September 28, 2009 (All day)

Author Marcus Buckingham offers a quiz to help you find a fulfilling life

Recent studies have shown that as women get older, they get sadder (whereas men get happier as they age). Author Marcus Buckingham cites these studies and offers solutions to this unhappy paradox in his book, “Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently.”

Want to learn more about what makes you happy? Buckingham designed a quiz called the Strong Life Test to help women find their “strongest life” — what he defines as the life that fulfills you and brings you happiness.

Blue is the New Black

by Maureen Dowd

The New York Times

Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 09:07

….Before the ’70s, there was a gender gap in America in which women felt greater well-being. Now there’s a gender gap in which men feel better about their lives.

As Arianna Huffington points out in a blog post headlined “The Sad, Shocking Truth About How Women Are Feeling”: “It doesn’t matter what their marital status is, how much money they make, whether or not they have children, their ethnic background, or the country they live in. Women around the world are in a funk.”

(The one exception is black women in America, who are a bit happier than they were in 1972, but still not as happy as black men.)

Marcus Buckingham, a former Gallup researcher who has a new book out called “Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently,” says that men and women passed each other midpoint on the graph of life.

Leadership Strengths At the Top Of the Class

by Larry Reynolds

Training Journal

Monday, July 6, 2009 (All day)

Larry Reynolds reports on a recent leadership masterclass by strengths-based development guru Marcus Buckingham

What’s the difference between leadership and management? Is leadership just a fashionable term for describing the kinds of things we want the managers in our organisation to do, or are the skills and behaviours of a leader utterly different to the skills and behaviours of a manager?

Marcus Buckingham, author of best selling business books First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover your Strengths, certainly takes the view that leaders and managers are completely different beasts. He spelled out the differences to an international audience of CEOs, L&D specialists and me at a masterclass in London last month.

Here’s what he had to say.

Top 10 Things To Do If You Become Unemployed

by Marcus Buckingham

The View

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 (All day)

Losing one's job is never easy. Act your way into a new way of thinking. Don't get down, get a plan.

GET CLEAR:

1. Financial assessment
Begin by doing a thorough review of your current financial situation:

What are your monthly necessities? (rent, utilities, food etc..)
What is the amount that you will need to cover these necessities?
What choices do you have to make to ensure that you cover your necessities for at least three months?
What costs can you reduce immediately?

Hoard your cash. Look for opportunities to save money: eat at home, downgrade cable packages, buy less expensive brands, borrow books and movies from the library, consolidate debt into one low interest payment- there are myriad money saving tips – seek them out and apply them.

Career Women at Midlife: Sadder and Sicker

by Michelle Conlin

BusinessWeek

Friday, March 27, 2009 (All day)

While women are securing greater power in the workplace, they are also growing less satisfied with their lives as they age

Kathy Caprino’s life seemed the stuff of glossy-magazine perfection. The big deal marketing job, complete with roomy office, upbeat assistant, and lunchtime indulgences in retail therapy. The cool contemporary spread in Connecticut. The emotionally aware jazz percussionist husband frolicking with the two healthy kids.

What a photo spread: a mise en scène of Third Wave feminisism, writ fabulous. Only as she powered through her prime earning years, notching promotions and amplifying her assets, Caprino began to ask herself why she felt lost and angry all of the time. She developed a chronic case of tracheitis. Life became about snapping at her husband, falling asleep around her kids, and loathing the deadened corporate machine she had become. At 38, Kathy Caprino had it all. She was also the unhappiest and unhealthiest she had ever been.