Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
TOM PETERSAccept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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What gets measured gets done.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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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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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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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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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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