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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

Tom Peters

Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Important Media Ultimately Want
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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Demand Elements Important
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Halos Powerful Want
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
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
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles

Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

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