Good Life Project What We Get Wrong About Work | Marcus Buckingham
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Jun 11, 2019 
Marcus Buckingham, researcher and author known for strengths-based work, shares ideas on honoring uniqueness at work. Short talks explore how workplaces suppress individuality, why fixing weaknesses is overrated, and how leaning into what you love—including side projects—boosts contribution and engagement. Expect practical reframes and surprising challenges to common work myths.
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Most Work Is Transactional Because Organizations Value Uniformity
- Only 15.8% of people worldwide are fully engaged at work, showing most work is transactional.
- Modern companies, designed like assembly lines, treat uniqueness as a bug and push employees to be uniform cogs for efficiency.
Projection And Fixing Crush Individuality
- We habitually project our own preferences onto others and try to fix perceived flaws, which grinds down individuality.
- Projection plus impatience with individuality plus desire to remediate makes it hard to let people be themselves.
Using Strengths Daily Is The Universal Driver Of Engagement
- Across 19 countries the strongest driver of full engagement is the chance to use strengths daily.
- This desire for being seen for what is special is universal, not culturally or gender-specific.
