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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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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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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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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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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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