The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
TOM PETERSAll white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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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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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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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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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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