Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
TOM PETERSUsage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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.
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Ultimately, 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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