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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.

Tom Peters

The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
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
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
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
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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
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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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding

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