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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.

Tom Peters

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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Asking Important People
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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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
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
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
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
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
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
Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged

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