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.
TOM PETERSHe who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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