The MakingITclear® Newsletter

August, 2004

Volume 2, Number 5

In this issue:

1. Featured Article: How to Improve ROI and your Project Selection Process
   
2. Quotes of the month

Featured Article

How to Improve ROI and your Project Selection Process
by Harwell Thrasher

This newsletter article has been combined with another newsletter article on ROI from the July, 2004 newsletter, “Why ROI isn't Working.” The resulting white paper, entitled “Why Return on Investment (ROI) isn't Working, and How to Fix It,” is available for download. To order this white paper, click here.

Quotes of the Month

In keeping with this month's topic, here are some appropriate quotations from the MakingITclear® collection. Use them in your presentations to emphasize critical points.


“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)


“Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.”

Robert Reich


“The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.”

Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable Business," by Louis E. Boone


“Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”

Miyamoto Musashi


“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”

Woody Allen (1935 - )