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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

Tom Peters

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun
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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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
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
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
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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Believe Secret Statistically World
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
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
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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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Column Impact Labels Make Tables
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Accelerating Pace Way World

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