Conceiving a business plan is often a Zen experience. We gather talented and motivated people to discuss where we are headed and how we are going to get there. At some point, whether it takes two minutes, two hours, or two weeks, everything comes together in some exciting way; everybody is energized and high spirited to get the plan going; we leave the meeting and the moment is gone like a pebble dropped into a mossy pond. The messengers from that meeting sally forth to spread the word but the business plan loses momentum as friction and inertia sets in. Enlightenment appeared before you but when you looked, it lost its form and dissolved into nothingness.
Improve Linux performance
Performance breakthroughs seem to come in two varieties: easy and hard. That’s no platitude; the boundary between the two is surprisingly clear.
When you hear about some — the easy ones — you clap your hands and say, “wow” or “of course” or “slick.” Although in some cases it has taken considerable genius to realize their first application, they’re easy to understand.
Paid Performance: A New Pricing Structure for SEO Companies
“Pricing structures” have always been the source of much discussion among professional SEO’s. Knowing how much to charge for SEO services is difficult, and it depends on so many factors. So in the beginning, most SEO’s tend to charge less for their services, then spend hour upon hour getting results for their clients.
Managing Performance Every Day
Your company has decided it needs to eliminate costs. Hundreds of jobs are on the line. The executives of each division have been directed to cut costs by 35%. The tension throughout the company is so thick you can cut it with a knife. You know some departments will be totally eliminated because the work can be outsourced to save money.
High Performance Leadership: Are You ‘Playing Small?’
Are you holding back at what you do, or yearn to become? Do you know that you have, right now, within you all of the resources that are necessary to ‘play big’ and become a high performing leader, at whatever it is you have a true passion for? Do you know that?
A New Pricing Structure for SEO Companies . . . Paid Performance (Part 1 of 3)
“Pricing structures” have always been the source of much discussion among professional SEO’s. Knowing how much to charge for SEO services is difficult, and it depends on so many factors. So in the beginning, most SEO’s tend to charge less for their services, then spend hour upon hour getting results for their clients.
Looking To Sustain High Performance? Start in the Board Room
When you survey business and management publications and listen to Wall Street and other business analysts, most of the attention is focused on what the senior management team of the organization is doing to generate earnings and to build and sustain high performance. The spotlight continues to focus on CEO performance, and CEO turnover continues to rise. In fact, the average tenure of CEOs in the S&P 500 today is slightly over six and a half years. Pressure is applied with fervor by investors who still feel entitled to double-digit growth in performance.
Optimizing Your Pay Per Click Performance
Pay per click search engines have become one of the most popular ways to market your site in the last few years. There are now hundreds of millions of dollars spent each year on this form of advertising. Unfortunately, it has got to the point now where only companies with big budgets can compete for the best keywords … or has it?
Risk reversal .Getting paid for performance . one incredibly powerful approach
I’ve regularly written about the importance risk-reversal plays in dissolving buyer scepticism. As a way of allaying buyer fears, some of my clients have adopted money back guarantees and their sales have increased dramatically just as a result of implementing that guarantee.
Measuring Application Performance
When considering a benchmark to determine the overall performance of a Java application, bear in mind that bytecode execution, native code execution, and graphics each play a role. Their impact varies depending on the nature of the specific application: what the application does, how much of it is bytecode versus native code, and how much use it makes of graphics. How well a JVM will perform for a given application depends on how the unique mix of these three functional areas maps onto its capabilities. Given these variables, the best way to benchmark a JVM is against your own application. Since thats not possible before the application has been written, you must find those benchmarks that are most relevant to the application you intend to write.