Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
TOM PETERSAuthority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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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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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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For me, reading is reading.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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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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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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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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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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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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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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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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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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