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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Tom Peters

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
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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Community People Way
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
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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Connections Littles Mind
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

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