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Tom Peters

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
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Age Digital Space
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
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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Blue Office Revolution White
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
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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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
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
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching

Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

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