The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
TOM PETERSTRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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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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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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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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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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You are your projects!
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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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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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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