Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
TOM PETERSIf 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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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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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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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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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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