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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

Tom Peters

I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
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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Next Strategy Volunteer
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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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
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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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
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
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

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