Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
TOM PETERSUltimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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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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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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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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