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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
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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Book Digital Hard People Print
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
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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Academic Library Strong Tuition
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative

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