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To change the default text styling fonts in Google Apps permanently, you can manage this from your Gmail Settings as follows: * Make sure Default Text Styling is enabled (see below). * Follow the Settings link in Gmail. * Go to the General tab. * Use the Bold, Italic, Font, Size and Text Color
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The knowledge worker must operate beyond the traditional desktop software tools which enable individual productivity. In today's economy, there is an immense increase in the amount of information flow between customers, vendors, management and team members. Managing and leveraging this information flow requires tools which are agile, collaborative
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In today's business environment, a resultant proposal, legal document or any numerous pieces of information produced through knowledge work is a product of collaboration. Today, more than ever, knowledge work requires inputs and approvals from internal stakeholders and external customers and vendors. As documents, appointments and emails are
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Our economy is overwhelmingly a service economy. The last statistic from 2006 showed 84% of Americans are in the service business. This was a 4% increase from 2000. In layman's terms, this means that 1 out of 6 people you shake hands with actually make a physical object.
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Being in the age of speed means we are all moving fast and having to shift attention continually. It is hard to execute with depth when we lack clarity. The feeling of being overwhelmed is common. The usual problem is that we are trying to act without addressing what has
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Everyone is overwhelmed. This I know from working with clients through thousands of hours of consulting. The information age has entirely new rules and many people are stuck using the training, thinking and methods of the industrial age. The world is only accelerating. You may wish for the good old
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I have found relationships which seemed to have clicked and moved relatively fast. However, I am not sure I can say that I have made meaningful or true connections without some type of courtship. Thus, dating your customer takes on the same ritual and cadence. Just as it is wreckless
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There is a lot of noise out there today. Every new tool is vying for attention and causing followers to have to adopt them. The social media buzz has business people thinking about themselves - "how do I capitalize on this craze?" rather than how do I bring
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It is difficult today to focus and execute. I like what I heard from a client the other day, “We like working with AscendWorks. While others talk, you guys do. We need more doers, not talkers.” I thought that captured a great essence on what can easily differentiate those who thrive in the new econo
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It is difficult today to focus and execute. I like what I heard from a client the other day, “We like working with AscendWorks. While others talk, you guys do. We need more doers, not talkers.” I thought that captured a great essence on what can easily differentiate those who
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste." - Henry Ford "I have always felt that America is the land of unlimited opportunities for those who will 'pay the price.'" - J.W. Marriott In the next
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Have you ever looked at the result you produce? Perhaps it is a legal brief, a sales proposal or a software solution. Most likely, whether it is tangible or completely virtual, there were many tools, people and steps to create the end result. On our team, we deliver business systems.