There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around.

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

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

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.