Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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More Tom Peters Quotes
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Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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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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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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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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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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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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