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Tom Peters

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
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
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
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Business Dull Lunch
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
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
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
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

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