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Tom Peters

I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
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
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
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
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts

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