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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

Tom Peters

Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

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