I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
TOM PETERSPrint-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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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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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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