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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

The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
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
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
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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Business Person Real School Second
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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