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.
TOM PETERSThe whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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