Sentences with phrase «more and more authors of»

More and more authors of both publishing processes are finally adopting a more realistic, genuine definition though, and that is the ability to work as a full - time writer.

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Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together, says, «People's relationship to money is not rational, it's emotional... We need to focus more on the psychological blocks and triggers that stand in people's ways, instead of just explaining how to budget or the importance of compound interest.»

In his studies of truly great performers, K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist and author of several landmark studies on elite performance... found that they practiced and rested a lot more than their good but not elite peers.

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

Roberta Matuson, a Boston - based business consultant and author of the 2013 book Talent Magnetism, says small firms need not be bound to rigid formal HR processes, which creates the opportunity for more creative hiring practices.

This one statistic alone should make all employers more interested in boosting bliss: Truly cheerful employees spend about 80 % of their time at work doing what they're there to do; the least content spend only 40 % of their time on job - related activities, according to a survey by workplace happiness consultant and author Jessica Pryce - Jones.

«First, domaining is not a get - rich - quick scheme,» says John Motson, author of the e-book, Domaining Manifesto, proprietor of industry blog DNXpert.com, and owner of more than 1,000 domains, including a few valued at more than $ 100,000.

If you're more like me and less like the authors of Fortune's outstanding blockchain and cryptocurrency site The Ledger, this newfangled stuff is more often than not clear as mud.

He is a seasoned software entrepreneur, project and product manager with 10 + years of experience in the IT arena, advisor to several fast - growing ventures, popular blogger and contributing author in tech and business media (Inc., Wired, Pando Daily) Also, Andrew frequently speaks about project management, business and innovation at such events as E2 Innovate, PMI Global Congresses, Enterprise Connect, IBM Connect and more.

But as bestselling author and Oprah - anointed happiness expert Shawn Achor pointed out on in an excerpt from his new book on the TED Ideas blog recently, that sort of praise — well intentioned as it might be — actually does more harm than good.

Using the authors» analogy — despite its condescending overtones — of kids and adolescents growing more quickly than adults, if we took away the extra gallons of milk and after - school snacks, if we stopped providing education, if we penalized a kid for an inadvertent mistake, if we took away all the extra tools and resources required to usher kids through childhood, what would that look like?

But while the idea of paying almost of a fifth of the telecommuting workforce to veg is enough to infuriate the calmest of managers, workplace expert and author Kevin Burns suggests keeping that percentage in perspective and applauding the other 75 % of employees who consistently put in more than four hours of work in a day.

Repak, a professional speaker and author of «Dollars and Uncommon Sense» agrees, saying, «It doesn't take a Ph.D. to figure out that you'll have more money if you earn interest on it.»

«More often than not, it's the obvious questions people fall down on because they think them through superficially,» says Martin Soorjoo, founder of San Francisco - based Investor Pitch Clinic and author of Here's the Pitch: How to Pitch Your Business to Anyone, Get Funded, and Win Clients (Wiley, 2012).

Researchers, including the authors, have found that older people shown pictures of faces or situations tend to focus on and remember the happier ones more and the negative ones less.

The Harvard grad and author of Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (Business Plus, 2013) tweets uplifting quotes, links to emails he has sent to Zappos employees and links to articles about how to make the office a more fun, collaborative place to work.

As Adam Grant, author of Give and Take, points out, by paying it forward, you are more successful without expecting a quid pro quo.

Independent authors enjoy more creative control and far better royalties: They keep 50 % to 70 % of book sales, vs. 15 % to 25 % royalties for traditionally published books.

Rhonda Abrams, author of The Successful Business Plan and founder / CEO of The Planning Shop says that if you haven't met your potential investor face - to - face, your business plan is more important than ever.

«Short sleep was more important than any other factor in predicting subjects» likelihood of catching cold,» said Aric Prather, assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Francisco and the study's lead author.

Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.

Your market research, both qualitative and quantitative will be able to help you answer some of these questions, says Silverstein, who also is the author of Women Want More: How to Capture Your Share of the World's Largest, Fastest - Growing Market.

In other words, exercising after a long period of not eating could set us up for a longer, more intense fat burn, noted Eric Doucet, the lead author on the study and a professor of kinesiology at the University of Ottowa.

To John Warrillow, the founder of the Sellability Score and author of the book Built to Sell, there are few things more important than recurring revenue for a business owner who is prepping to sell a company.

«First of all, it's likely that the other person deserves more credit than we are inclined to give them,» say the authors, and secondly, this positivity may make the person more likely to reciprocate.

Rhett Power is head coach at Power Coaching and Consulting and the author of The Entrepreneur's Book of Actions, a new book about daily exercises for becoming wealthier, smarter, and more successful.

His colleague at the ILO, Ekkehard Ernst, who heads the Employment Trends Unit at the ILO Research Department and was the main author of the report, agreed it was «imperative» that «active labor market policies be implemented more forcefully to address inactivity and skills mismatch.»

Traditional answers often focus on various sectors and involve more or less hand - wringing about their rise and fall, but according to the author of a forthcoming book on entrepreneurship and economy, there is another, better way to view our economy — as one single ecosystem, a sort of one - sector economy that interacts as a unit much like a forest and which should be nurtured as it grows and recycles itself.

Donna Karan's senior VP of global communications, author of Leave Your Mark, and one of the more authentic and uncensored personalities for you to add to your feed.

One of the more influential Zuckerbergs of all time, Randi is also an impactful author and thought leader in the digital space.

A lot of professionals, including celebrities, authors, athletes, and much more, have earned a substantial amount of money on Instagram.

As I recall the headline read, more or less, «Women Don't Negotiate Because They're Not Dumb,» and the author went on to cite research to make her point that when women do ask for more money, people tend to hate it, and «pushy» women end up paying mightily in terms of career progression and opportunities.

The authors of the study — two professors from Stanford, one from the University of Minnesota, and an economist at the Social Security Administration — describe it more dryly.

Author and researcher Morten Hansen conducted a five - year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees to determine exactly how top workers maximize both their time and performance.

«All of those founders had originally left to bring in a more professional leader or CEO - type,» notes Vince Molinaro, Managing Director for Leadership Solutions at Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions and author of The Leadership Contract.

«Fear of confrontation is so overwhelming, but if you communicate boldly, more frequently, and honestly... and you're not afraid to work through conflict, you'll likely reduce your stress and be a better worker,» says Lynn Taylor, national workplace expert and author of Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant; How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job.

Head of content at MarketingProfs, and author of some of the more compelling digital - centric books out there, such as Everybody Writes and Content Rules.

-- Phillip Stutts, CEO of Go Big Media and author of Fire Them Now: The 7 Lies Digital Marketers Sell and the Truth About Political Strategies That Help Businesses Win, who has contributed to more than 1,000 election victories of senators, governors, representatives, and two U.S. presidents

According to David Randall, the author of Dreamland, even a short nap «primes our brains to function at a higher level, letting us come up with better ideas, find solutions to puzzles more quickly, identify patterns faster and recall information more accurately.»

Turkle is the author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on human relationships to technology.

However, David Burkus, associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University and author of the forthcoming book Under New Management, questions whether that obsession with secrecy might do a company culture more harm than good.

«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting for the influence of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

The study's author found that the men who saw male models were more likely to choose the risky bet compared to the men who were shown images of female models and average individuals.

According to Nataly Kogan, author of Happier Now: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Everyday Moments, «There are more than 11,000 different studies that have shown that if there is one habit that we can all adopt to improve our physical and emotional well - being, it's the practice of gratitude.»

Ashish Jha, the senior author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper, points out in a blog post that there are reasons why women doctors might well deliver better care, citing research to suggest that they might adhere more closely to established clinical practice guidelines and that patients often report better personal experiences (something that ultimately might lead to better outcomes).

«You get the traffic, you convert the traffic, you sell the traffic, then you take your money and you reinvest it in more traffic,» says Marshall, author of 80/20 Sales and Marketing (Entrepreneur Press).

Kevin Hogan, author of The Science of Influence, explains that «most people react to the fear of loss and the threat of pain in a much more profound way than they do for gain.»

In their book The Power of Moments, authors Chip and Dan Heath give more insight into what is required to deliver these types of experiences, defining moments, as they describe them:

While most discussions of this topic focus on potential lost jobs or apocalyptic scenarios, these authors — Accenture's Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson — see the glass as decidedly more than half full.