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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Tom Peters

We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Age Digital Space
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
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
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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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
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
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
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
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
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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