FEATURE:  Achieving Stability in a Volatile Marketplace

TAX BRACKET:  Retirement Contributions

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Business Development Corner:

• Pursuing Excellence in Your Small Business

• Some Principals for Success

• Surviving a Cash Crunch

• 5 Common Employee Relation Problems

Memorable Quotes

Achieving Stability in a Volatile Marketplace

Today's marketplace operates at breakneck speeds. In almost every segment, a customer can have a change of heart and a new priority overnight. Keeping pace with technology, innovation, competition and fulfilling customers desires can leave a business owner breathless.

Retirement Contributions

Making contributions to retirement plans often “contributes” to the stress of financial and tax planning.  Let us help get you “up to date” with the changes affecting retirement planning as a result of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and regulations issued in 2002.

Turn a Table into Text

Example: You’ve received a file with data presented in a table format. You’d like to use the data in another document, but as plain text instead of a table.

1. Click anywhere in the table.

2. Choose from the menu bar Table - Convert - Table to Text.

3. Under Separate text with, select Paragraph marks, Tabs, Commas or Other (type punctuation mark of your choice).

4. Click OK.

Pursuing Excellence In Your Small Business

Achieving and managing excellence throughout your business can take years.  You and your tea m have to embrace the idea and make it a part of your business and your personal value system.

Some Principles for Success

Unlike in the movies, successful business does not require ruthless behavior or contrived schemes. More often than not, it requires doing things "right."

Surviving a Cash Crunch

Some small business executives say that when you're strapped for cash, it's best to explain the situation to your suppliers and ask for extensions on your credit. Others, however, recommend that you keep the problem to yourself.

5 Common Employee Relations Problems

Identifying the problem is half the road to solving it right? If you're experiencing problems in your organization, consider whether any of these factors could be at the root of it.

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
- W. J. Davison

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
- F. Hawes

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln