Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
TOM PETERSUsage 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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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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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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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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What gets measured gets done.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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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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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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