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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.

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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Degree Leadership Sorry Team
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Halos Powerful Want
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
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
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
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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Bazookas Rifles Vision
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
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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