Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
TOM PETERSBusiness is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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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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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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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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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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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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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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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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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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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