A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
TOM PETERSWe 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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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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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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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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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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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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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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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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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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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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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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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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