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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.

Tom Peters

Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
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
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
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
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

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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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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