With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently. Tom Peters More Quotes by Tom Peters More Quotes From Tom Peters Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread. Tom Peters usage library digital People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library. Tom Peters library digital people Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success. Tom Peters fire action way It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component. Tom Peters library tuition strong I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens. Tom Peters book people fiction Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized. Tom Peters bricks-and-mortar library digital I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too. Tom Peters world needs thinking The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature. Tom Peters force human-nature perception All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented. Tom Peters life-is white facts Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. Tom Peters support games people The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it. Tom Peters secret believe world We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured. Tom Peters library opportunity people 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 dangerous-situations bricks-and-mortar long I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand. Tom Peters giving years thinking Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work. Tom Peters effective-listening achievement hard-work Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our Tom Peters priorities care lying If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen. Tom Peters intelligent done silly Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view. Tom Peters entrepreneur views memories Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered Tom Peters connections mind littles Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at. Tom Peters helping believe way
