Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
TOM PETERSPublic Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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