The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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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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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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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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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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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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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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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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