Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).Collection: Book
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Book
I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.Collection: Book
Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.Collection: Reading
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.Collection: Cities
The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.Collection: Selfish
A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.Collection: Collections
One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. PeriodCollection: Size
Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.Collection: Environmental
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that "overcome" such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingly.Collection: Success
The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.Collection: Pace
I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.Collection: Communication
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.Collection: Memories
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.Collection: Communication
"Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been.Collection: America
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!Collection: Journey
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.Collection: Teaching
Life is too short for non-WOW projects.Collection: Life Is Too Short
Leaders do stuff that matters.Collection: Leader
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.Collection: Quality
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.Collection: Perception
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.Collection: Motivation
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.Collection: Loyalty
I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.Collection: Flags
The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.Collection: Reading
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.Collection: Team
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.Collection: Teamwork
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.Collection: Jobs
The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.Collection: Art
In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.Collection: Organization
It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. 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. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.Collection: Education
Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.Collection: Book
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.Collection: Perfection
Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?Collection: Dream
Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.Collection: Rap
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.Collection: Moving
I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.Collection: Clients
Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.Collection: Vision
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.Collection: Limits
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Reading
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.Collection: Media
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.Collection: Mars
For me, reading is reading.Collection: Reading
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.Collection: People
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.Collection: People
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.Collection: Believe