Tom Peters Quotes
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.
Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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.
Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
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.
Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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.
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.
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices.
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books.
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!
