Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.