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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

Tom Peters

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Column Impact Labels Make Tables
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Important Media Ultimately Want
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
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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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval

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