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What was the plan? Strategic Leadership
Development for the Library Sector Margaret
Allen CEO and State Librarian State Library of
Western Australia
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We want people to lead from whatever level they
are in, so leadership is not ME it can exist all
the way through. Jan Fullerton AO

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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders
will be those who empower others. Bill
Gates
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Leaders need to go beyond the concern with
particularity they need to develop the capacity
to see the big picture. Alex Byrne
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• I have built my organization upon fear.
• Al Capone

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The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we had when we
created them. Albert Einstein
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When confronted by a difficult problem, you can
solve it more easily by reducing it to the
question, How would the Lone Ranger handle
this? David Brent/Ricky Gervais
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Success is not a straight line not like a rocket
taking off into the unknown True success goes in
a circle. True success means taking what you
learn, or what you earn , and giving it back
again using your great talent and resources to
build up your communities, encourage your peers
lay down stepping stones for others to tread in
your wake. Her Excellency Quentin Bryce AM
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• The greatest danger for most of us is not that
  our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it
  is too low and we reach it.
• Michelangelo

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The clock is ticking. If we dont change how we
do things and how we present ourselves, well
just look quaint. Andrew Wells
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to
do something you want done because he wants to do
it. Dwight Eisenhower
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder
of success Leadership determines whether the
ladder is leaning against the right wall.
  Stephen R. Covey
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• There is always ambiguity, uncertainty around
  something that is happening in an organisation.
  So lets not treat it as aberrant, lets treat it
  as part and parcel of what we have to do.
• Anne-Marie Schwirtlich

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• Being in power is like being a lady. If you have
  to remind people that you are, you arent.
• Margaret Thatcher

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Its really your job as a leader to keep looking
for a way through. Its that thing of not having
to necessarily know what the outcome will be,
that would be good for librarians to
learn Cathrine Harboe-Roe
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We must become the change we want to
see. Ghandi
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you dont have all the answers and you cant
have all the knowledge and moving from a mental
model where you think youre the only one
resource is an important step to make. Youll
get old and tired if you dont replenish your own
resources. Margy Burn
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Someone has to take responsibility, I
will. Winston Churchill
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Management is doing things right leadership is
doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker
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I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want
to be here before the action starts. Kerr
y Packer
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we need more people in their 20s who are
prepared to take chances but unfortunately
theyre actually held down. We talk a lot about
staff succession planning. Craig Anderson
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Think left and think right and think low and
think high. Oh, the things you can think up if
only you try! Dr. Seuss
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• Margaret Allen
• CEO and State Librarian
• State Library of Western Australia
• margaret.allen_at_slwa.wa.gov.au