Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
TOM PETERSProgress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Public 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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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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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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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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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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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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