Although ACT! comes with several Dashboards right out of the box you might want to create your own Dashboard that contains the specific components that you want to view. For example, you may create unique Dashboards for each member of your sales staff to show you the specifics about their individual sales and activities. Alternatively, you may create a new sales Dashboard and have each component show the sales of a specific sales person.
You may believe in that old adage look before you leap and that is definitely the case when it comes to creating new Dashboards. After all, why reinvent the wheel if the existing one works just fine? You'll want to clearly define a reporting need and make sure that one of the existing Dashboards doesn't already fulfill it.