One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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For me, reading is reading.
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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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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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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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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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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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