If timing ain't everything, it's damn close

We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.