The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
TOM PETERSIt 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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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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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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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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Hire attitude train skills.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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