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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

Tom Peters

You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Asking Important People
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
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
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
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
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
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
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
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
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

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