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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Only pissed-off people change the world.
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Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.
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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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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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An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
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Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.
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A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
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But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.
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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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The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
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Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
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