I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
TOM PETERSThe 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Authority 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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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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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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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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