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

Tom Peters

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
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
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
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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Business Country Growth Real
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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Business Creativity Fun
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources

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