The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
TOM PETERSMake an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Usage 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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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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You are your projects!
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It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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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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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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