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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.
Tom Peters
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
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Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
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If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
Tom Peters
Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
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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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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.
Tom Peters
Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
Tom Peters