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Successful People Are On Time!
I recently attended a Microsoft event at their corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington. This event was a fantastic opportunity to meet with fellow leaders in the Microsoft partner community from around the world and spend quality time with each one of them. The event was held over four days and we had a very tight schedule and the importance of timeliness was critical to its overall success.The timeliness factor really didn’t hit me until I was ready to head back to the airport for my trip home. My town car arrived a few minutes early to collect me a

mportant items. Even the paragraphs of this post help to distinguish parts of this topic. Adding subheads makes it even easier for the reader. If I wrote this as one long paragraph, with no breaks, it would be a lot harder to read. And I'd run the risk that

Private Equity Deals Offer Alternate Exits to IPOs
WSJ article "IPO Obstacles Hinder Startups" offers a good coverage of how IPOs are becoming tougher for small venture-backed companies.This raises the question, what should CEOs and early-stage VCs do, once a company has reached $100 M+ in annual sales? (Below this threshhold, it is absolutely undesirable to go public; investor courting, ongoing investor management, Sarbanes-Oaxley compliance related paperwork and massive expenses - being some key distractors ...)In general, by year 5 or year 6 in a company’s history, the Series A investors, the Founder

WHAT'S On The Page?

Typically, a Western audience reads from top to bottom and left to right. That doesn't necessarily mean information has to be placed on a page in that order. As readers, we look at a page and attempt to figure out what is the important message on the page. If everything is shown the same way, same size, same spacing — no importance is established for anything on the page. It looks foreboding and unfriendly.

BUILDING Hierarchy

When you look at many well-designed ads, there's a headline that is big and attention grabbing, maybe a large photo, and then the rest of the information is arranged to give each part more or less importance. There may be additional smaller photos showing details, or contact information or where to find a product. There may be copyright notices at the bottom of the page in small type. All of these things are designed, sized and spaced to help the reader move through the information logically. Readers aren't forced to work through everything to find the important items. Even the paragraphs of this post help to distinguish parts of this topic. Adding subheads makes it even easier for the reader. If I wrote this as one long paragraph, with no breaks, it would be a lot harder to read. And I'd run the risk that

Effective Business Card Design for Lawyers
Are you looking for new business cards that will help you market your law practice and you want a design that will look good but will also give someone all of the information that they need at first glance? When you are a lawyer you want something that looks professional because people that need a lawyer want someone who seems to be well put together and has the ability to defend them. Sometimes the appearance of a business card can help someone determine that you are the lawyer for them.Custom business cards are a great way to go. Think about it, you can t

tant message on the page. If everything is shown the same way, same size, same spacing — no importance is established for anything on the page. It looks foreboding and unfriendly.

BUILDING Hierarchy

How To Upgrade Your Success
This is a very unsexy topic, unlikely to raise your pulse, but I think these concepts, once understood will make a major difference to understanding exactly how you can upgrade your success in anything.While you may find this article somewhat abstract, you will also find many useful applications for it, once you grasp the universal applicability of these two concepts.The two concepts are processes and resources.A process is anything that has a starting point, a sequence of events, and an end point.A business process, for example, is manufa

's a headline that is big and attention grabbing, maybe a large photo, and then the rest of the information is arranged to give each part more or less importance. There may be additional smaller photos showing details, or contact information or where to find a product. There may be copyright notices at the bottom of the page in small type. All of these things are designed, sized and spaced to help the reader move through the information logically. Readers aren't forced to work through everything to find the important items. Even the paragraphs of this post help to distinguish parts of this topic. Adding subheads makes it even easier for the reader. If I wrote this as one long paragraph, with no breaks, it would be a lot harder to read. And I'd run the risk that

Gap Analysis Gives Clear Vision of Your Future
Whether your vision is rapid growth, higher productivity, stakeholder value or quality improvement, getting there starts by understanding what it takes to reach your goals. The logical first step is an objective assessment of current conditions, commonly referred to as an operations assessment or a GAP Analysis. So to achieve your strategic goals you need to know what it takes to get there.Operations AssessmentGetting there begins with an objective assessment of where your organization is now. What are its core processes, critical metrics, and pe

d a product. There may be copyright notices at the bottom of the page in small type. All of these things are designed, sized and spaced to help the reader move through the information logically. Readers aren't forced to work through everything to find the important items. Even the paragraphs of this post help to distinguish parts of this topic. Adding subheads makes it even easier for the reader. If I wrote this as one long paragraph, with no breaks, it would be a lot harder to read. And I'd run the risk that

Fire Risk Assessment - It's The Law
Any responsible person, even with limited formal instruction or experience, can do a simple fire risk assessment. More complex buildings will need to be assessed by a person with full training and experience in fire risk assessment.Mainly companies and building owners will be affected by the new legislation but it could be anyone who has some control over premises. Fire certificates will no longer be valid.Under the new regulations it is the responsibility of employers to do a risk assessment of their places of work, which must contain provisions concer

SPACING Unites or Separates

When you are placing elements on a page or even typing long documents, spacing can help the reader determine what items go together. A simple example is the subheads I'm using in this post. They are closer to the paragraphs they go with then they are to the paragraphs before them. You don't have to think about what the subheads belong with; it's obvious from the spacing.

Looking at well-designed ads, you may also see the use of a company's logo or brand. It will probably be spaced near contact information, address, phone numbers, even Web addresses and the names of contacts. This is all information that fits together logically and so spacing these things together makes a unit out of them. It separates this important information from the rest of the elements on the page, therefore giving it a position in the page's hierarchy.

SPACING Photos

Making photos look good on a page can be difficult, particularly if there are many photos

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If you are thinking of getting into the medical billing industry, you might want to read about some common on the job problems you are bound to run into. Doing so may just save your life.

Several success stories have emanated from the lean manufacturing initiatives. Although some organizations were not able to sustain the success after a few years, many others kept building on the initial success through continual improvements in processes. Discussed below are the keys to lean manufacturing success that were common for most of the success stories:

In most companies, there is money in the budget for executive business gifts for employees that can be given at special events, but it can sometimes be difficult to decide exactly what to give to whom.

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