Question-Based Planning (ibook)

It only takes us a day to abstract current plans into this "goal tree" form. It's a useful way to see what areas need attention, if any. How many of your managers are excited by your strategic plan? Click here for 1-page summary It's frustrating that "strategic" plans rarely produce results and cost so much and take so long.

Question-Based Planning answers the three core questions of leadership: Why are we doing this? Most likely it will be a waste of time to include images in your drafts, because you will be switching and moving images around later in iBooks Author. You can always export body content of your manuscript without the images and widgets to a text file.

For my book I drafted as much as I could in Scrivener and then exported the entire document to Pages for additional revisions. To get started with iBooks Author, you can choose to begin with a template or create your template from scratch. Like Pages, iBooks Author includes an Inspector with formatting and layout tools.

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Also similar to Pages, the iBooks Author toolbar includes a font style tool, a button for multimedia widgets and buttons for adding shapes, charts, and tables. All templates can of course be customized, which means you can create your template based on an existing template, or create one from scratch. To customize a template make all the changes you would like to chapter pages, sections, and the different types of pages e.

The changes made to layouts will be applied to all new pages you create in your book. Multimedia iBooks consist of chapters, sections, and pages. As with standard ebooks, your book can be made up of chapters and pages, but in iBooks, you can break content down into sections within chapters for better presentation of information and reader navigation.

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For each of its templates, iBooks Author creates the first chapter and section for you. Click on a page to start typing or pasting content, just as you do in Word or Pages. You can click in the Insert menu to add another section, chapter, or insert more pages.

If you have a version of your manuscript drafted in Pages or Word, you can drag and drop the file itself onto the first chapter of the book, and iBooks Author will import the content of that file and create chapters and sections based on how the content is laid out in the imported file. The application will attempt to use the chapter headings you typed in the original document. The formatting of the imported chapters and section will be based on what is set for your iBooks. But remember, you can go the Layout section of iBooks Author and change the formatting of headers and body style, and the select to apply those changes universally.

As with Word and Pages, you can also use the Style Drawer located under the View menu and in the toolbar to apply or change styles. As I worked through each chapter, I realized that a lot of the content I had drafted in Scrivener could be better communicated with a gallery of screenshots or interactive images. I had decided early on that I wanted most of my book to be image driven rather than pages and pages of text.

This provides a consistent style throughout your book. When you make changes to the layout, click the Apply Changes button to apply them universally. Sections are not required in a regular iBook, but adding sections is useful when it comes to an interactive multimedia iBook. For example, chapter 8 of my book consists of seven sections. This special ToC allows users to use the pinch finger gesture on any page of the book to open the ToC for quick navigation. Users can swipe back and forth between chapters and sections.

Also note the text size for iBooks templates are typically 20pts, which is an appropriate size for reading on an iPad-sized device. Readers can adjust the size of the font in the reader, so resist the urge to make this larger than it needs to be. Instead of your book being pages and pages of text, widgets add visual elements like images, video files, and 3D animations to spruce up your book. The gallery widget is probably the easiest and most useful widget. For example, a gallery widget can be inserted into a blank page, or it can be added and resized alongside existing text on a page.

Widgets are inserted from the drop-down widget selector in the toolbar. The Widget section of the inspector allows you to also re-arrange or replace added images. When you click on an image in the gallery, it brings up the Edit Mask which allows for resizing the image.

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Sometimes to make for a better fit, you should capture images based on the actual dimensions of the widget frame you set on the page. Before publishing your book, try to make sure the measurements for your media elements are consistent from page to page. Do this by clicking on the Metrics panel within Inspector to refine and adjust measurements so that each related media element has the same dimensions.

Using that perfect photo can also come without sweat and cost. The five sources here ease your hunt because you simply subscribe to them with an email. Read More which you can use to find images for your iBook. You can readjust the size of the table of contents text, but you can only edit the chapter titles and sub-headings on their individual pages or in the thumbnails.

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The chapter number text frames can also be moved around, such as below or above the chapter titles. A glossary might be most useful for technical or historical books for providing readers with definitions of selected names and terms, which appear in-line.

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Click on the Glossary button in the book assets column to add definitions. As for cover art — I recommend getting a custom design created. Also, as you write your book, constantly preview it in iBooks Reader on both the iPad and Mac. The preview version of your book can be downloaded to your iOS device via iTunes. You can also export the book as an.

Exporting to Dropbox worked better and slightly faster for me, but if your Mac supports AirDrop with iOS devices, you can send your iBook straight to your iPad.

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If you can hire a professional proofreader, all the better. Hiring a qualified copy editor for your book as you complete chapters is also very helpful. An editor can help sharpen your sentences and provide recommendations for revisions. During the editing process, I exported my pages to a plain text file, and then opened that file and formatted the chapter headings and sections so my sister-in-law could proofread the manuscript. For her last round of proofreading, she proofread directly in iBooks Author, as did another proofreader of the book.

In addition, take advantage of the Proofreading tool also located in the Edit menu.

Revising, editing, and proofreading your book is a painstaking process, but if you release your book with lots of grammar and spellings mistakes, readers will almost certainly let you know about it. Regardless, you should still manually save a backup copy of the document to another drive. Read More can automatically do that for you. To publish and sell your iBook in the iTunes Book Store, you first need to create a free account on iTunes Connect , which requires your personal banking account information and some form of social security number this can change from region to region , which is used to pay taxes on the income from book sales.

Producer allows you to specify which assets — including cover art, book description, and book price — will appear on the iTunes Books page for your book. Up to five screenshots of sample pages in your book can be submitted for your book page. Note, the dimensions of these images must be either: To get an accurate size, create a blank file with one of these dimensions in Photoshop or some other graphic editor, then add and scale your screenshots down to size.

If your files are not the supported dimensions, you will get an error message, which will prevent the submission of your book package to the iTunes Books Store. After you have edited and previewed your iBook a thousand times, you will want to create a sample version of your that can be downloaded for free by potential customers on iTunes. A repentant MBA leads a jargon-free revolution against the ineffective, inefficient and frustrating tyranny of traditional "strategic" planning. Question-Based Planning is completed in five two-hour meetings, gets summarized on a page, and includes monthly, disciplined follow-up.

A CEO says, "I've been to weekend 'strategic planning' retreats in which we were supposed to write a mission statement, set goals and create an action plan. Question-Based Planning gave us the discipline to get through the tough issues.

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