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Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.
Tom Peters
The principal reason, invariably, most successful giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.
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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
Tom Peters
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
Tom Peters
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we' they think 'team'.
Tom Peters
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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.
Tom Peters
You have to stand out if you want to move up.
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Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.
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A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
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Don't settle for less than is possible.
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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
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
Tom Peters
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
Tom Peters
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
Tom Peters
One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call the other digital divide.
Tom Peters
Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
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