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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.

Tom Peters

Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
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
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
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
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative

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