Doing It Right: Editor's Tips

i. Editor's Tips: How to Get the Most Out of This Book

This total learning system is designed to provide practical, immediate help for any business.

The tools, ideas and stories can be used be anyone, who is interested in increasing a company’s ability to realize its potential more effectively, regardless of the size or configuration of the business.

The message has been tailored for small and mid-sized companies.

Given that the overwhelming majority of those businesses are family owned or privately held, that is the voice you’ll find in this work.

Please recognize that decision was not made to exclude anyone looking to find value here.

Your interest in exploring this learning system means that you have taken an important step along the road to increased and continuing success.

This book contains powerful information, tools, and stories that can be used to strengthen your business.

First - please review the tips below as well as the Welcome message to follow. This will insure that you will get the most return on your investment.

Strength in Unity – The picture on the cover of this book, titled Unity in Motion, created by Canadian artist Ron Matzov, describes the interconnected world of work, business, and life in a wonderful way. That is why we chose it.

According to Ron, "This image exemplifies synergy in action. It is an exploration of cooperation, trust, and resourcefulness, illustrating how the whole truly is greater than the sum of the parts.

It demonstrates that positive behaviors, just like their negative counterparts, build momentum through self-reinforcing cyclical patterns."

For greatest ease in viewing and navigation, be sure to maximize your browser window using the buttons in the upper right corner.

Color-coded text - This book was created in layers - allowing you access to the information you seek in the most effective way.

Take a look at our Table of Contents. You will see that different levels of content are identified by their colors.

Use the Table of Contents - Each page contains a link to bring you back to the Table of Contents, so navigation is easy and consistent throughout.

Click on each Section name to see a complete list of topics, stories, tools and readings relevant to that section.

Copyright - All content is the property of Daniel D. Elash, Ph.D., and iBizResources.com, Inc., and is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws. At no time should you violate the copyright by forwarding purchased copies to an unauthorized person and/or people who have not purchased the document.

Exceptions to the Copyright - It is fine with us for you to print the book entirely or print the tools and other elements for your own use. In fact, we expect it.

For example, in facilitating a meeting with some of your people, you may find it handy to have visuals created from the diagrams you’ll find here. However, no part of "Doing it Right" may be used for any commercial purpose, including but not limited to, conference and seminar presentations, without written permission from iBizResources.com or Dan Elash.

Printing – Many people will find that printing the relevant tools and content that address a current task or issue meets their needs.

For those who prefer to print the learning system in its entirety, we recommend you use a ring binder, placing dividers at the beginning of each part, and sub-dividers for each section within its part, through section 10.

Section 11, Resources, contains all the tools, stories and recommended readings. The tools and stories should be placed at the end of their respective sections, in the order in which they appear in the text. Insert the recommended readings for each section after the tools and stories.

All the best.

Wayne Messick,Author & Publisher
Family Business Strategist & Business Coach
Certified in Workplace Conflict Resolution
New York, NY
212-501-4912