1. What was the plan? Strategic Leadership Development for the Library Sector Margaret Allen CEO and State Librarian State Library of Western Australia

2. 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

3. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates

4. Leaders need to go beyond the concern with particularity; they need to develop the capacity to see the big picture. Alex Byrne

5. I have built my organization upon fear. Al Capone

6. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them. Albert Einstein

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. The clock is ticking. If we don’t change how we do things and how we present ourselves, we’ll just look quaint. Andrew Wells

11. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight Eisenhower

12. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; Leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen R. Covey

13. There is always ambiguity, uncertainty around something that is happening in an organisation. So let’s not treat it as aberrant, let’s treat it as part and parcel of what we have to do. Anne-Marie Schwirtlich

14. Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to remind people that you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher

15. It’s really your job as a leader to keep looking for a way through. It’s that thing of not having to necessarily know what the outcome will be, that would be good for librarians to learn… Cathrine Harboe-Roe

16. We must become the change we want to see. Ghandi

17. …you don’t have all the answers and you can’t have all the knowledge and moving from a mental model where you think you’re the only one resource is an important step to make. You’ll get old and tired if you don’t replenish your own resources. Margy Burn

18. Someone has to take responsibility, I will. Winston Churchill

19. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker

20. I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts. Kerry Packer

21. …we need more people in their 20s who are prepared to take chances but unfortunately they’re actually held down. We talk a lot about staff succession planning. Craig Anderson

22. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try! Dr. Seuss

23. Margaret Allen CEO and State Librarian State Library of Western Australia margaret.allen@slwa.wa.gov.au