Sentences with phrase «about business book»

From our discussion I drew out three interesting observations about business book publishing in the 21st century.

The interesting thing about this business book, though, is that not only does it not force its way onto the scene with catch - phrases, but that its creation was actually born from a whole new attempt to shake things up in one key business: publishing.

I promise that nobody from Basecamp forced me to talk about their business book (nor did they pay me to do so).

This is a blog primarily about business books.

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I recommend this book because I hate the typical «entrepreneur» books about someone building a business.

Ferriss is all about optimization — so if you're still a slave to the corporate life, this book just might inspire and enable you to take the leap and start your own business.

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

«This is the only entrepreneurship book I have come across that talks honestly about the incredible challenges that entrepreneurs face when running a business, and not just about facing the difficult decisions, but about the way running a company affects you mentally.

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

For example, if you were an author writing a book about how to drive traffic to a website, you need to find an example of how your business suffered when it didn't have traffic to its site.

Glenn Fogel, Bookings Holdings CEO, and CNBC's Seema Mody talk about the company's better - than - expected fourth quarter sales as the online travel company receives a boost from a rise in reservations and strong performance from its international business.

Great books keep us informed about our world, introduce us to inspiring role models, and teach us important concepts we can apply in life and business.

As a professor and author of the book, «Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation,» Sue uses his research to educate businesses and corporations about the intervention trainings they can do to prevent these issues from reoccurring.

What business books have had the biggest impact on how you think about running a company?

This book is about all of the mistakes I've made in business, «132 lessons learned».

In his recently released book If I Can, You Can: Transformation Made Easy, business coach David Zelman talks about how to communicate so that you are heard — and understood.

«You have to decide whether you want to have conversations about compensation or booking business.

If you're still seething about the effects Wall Street's collapse has had on your business, the books in this list right here could give you some closure, or put you over the edge.

And while the book doesn't have anything useful to say about Canadian business leaders, it does raise some interesting questions about what's going on in Canadian business schools.

Like so many books about innovation and the exciting world of tomorrow's business, it's a little buzzwordy and breathless, which can get stale quickly — and when you're talking about the future, stale is the last thing you want to be.

Fortune spoke with Jeetendr Sehdev, a celebrity branding authority and author of the new book The Kim Kardashian Principle: Why Shameless Sells (and How to Do It Right), about what the Kardashian clan can teach business about reaching millennial consumers (without having them laugh your ad off the air).

Limiting beliefs can also affect your business: «You can read all of the best books by the best strategists, but typically the reason you're not implementing these best practices is because you have some limiting belief about your business,» says Bill.

Why I Like It: While this book is about marketing to consumers, even business buyers are influenced by the principles that it describes.

When I came up with the idea for my first book, 101 Ways to Market Your Business, I spoke to a number of people in marketing about it.

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

The book holds important lessons for business managers generally, but in particular it holds lessons about business ethics.

We get sent hundreds of business books a year, all in the hope that someone here reads one and decides to write about it.

Halfway through last year, Jason Kint of the advertising trade group Digital Content Next looked at the total ad revenue booked by those two companies as a proportion of the overall industry, and found that they accounted for about 90 % of all the growth in the business.

Note: Bill Gates wrote in his blog, gatesnotes, that Warren Buffett not only recommended this as his favorite book about business, but actually sent Gates his own personal copy to read.

What's more, staff members are nervous about giving up smaller clients and the revenue each adds to their book of business.

great book, I'd recommend it to anyone who knows nothing about starting up a business!

About 100,000 copies of Get Smarter — a book for 20 - to -40-year-olds that's full of life and business lessons on everything from corporate governance to sex — have been sold since its publication in 2007.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

In my book with Travis Wright, Digital Sense, we wrote at length about how any business can easily architect their software solutions to more effectively deliver on customer experience and growth — and talked about it at CES earlier this month:

In this video, Entrepreneur.com contributor John Rampton talks about a book that explains a topic that's very important to serious business owners: raising money.

His new book, Hoover's Vision: Original Thinking for Business Success (Texere, 2001), is «a guide to thinking about how we think,» says Posse member Christine Klein.

If you're like most people the answer is, you sit at your desk and daydream about a big change — that artisanal food business you've always wanted to start, the book you could write, that round - the - world trip haunting your bucket list, or the career - transforming master's degree you really should pursue.

In our book, Small Business, BIG Vision, my brother and I talk a lot about this.

In his 2017 book «Climate of Hope,» cowritten with veteran environmentalist Carl Pope, Bloomberg wrote that he understands that there are certain executives unmoved by warnings about the effects of manmade climate change, but that they'd be unwise to ignore the business opportunity.

Reviews of five new business books — two books about why some products fly and others fail; two business novels; and a new edition of a treasured favorite.

«I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac,» said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self - Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper.

«In most of the Western world, salary just isn't something people feel comfortable talking about,» writes researcher David Burkus in his 2016 book «Under New Management: How Leading Organizations are Upending Business as Usual.»

As the movie business grows more saturated with stories about costumed vigilantes, studios are trying to find ways to differentiate their own comic book adaptations.

And it would be hard to compile any list of the best business books of the year without mentioning Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century — which «sparked a fantastic global discussion this year about inequality,» Gates writes.

To learn more about open - book management and how you might use it in your business, check out Inc.com's guide to open - book management at www.inc.com/keyword/openbook.

Brian Miller, the chief operating officer of AdviCoach, a provider of business coaching to small companies says business owners often struggle to unplug because they worry about the day - to - day operations like keeping the books and counting the cash registers at night.

David H. Freedman ([email protected]), a Boston - based writer and Inc. contributing editor, is the author of several books about business and technology.

Indeed, when I wrote my 2003 book, Value Leadership, after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, I was thinking about how important it is for a business to act based on values that make employees, customers, and communities better off — which ultimately benefits a company's investors.

Pat Lencioni's latest book, Getting Naked, is a fable about a business owner who abruptly decides to sell his successful company, Lighthouse Partners, after his daughter is involved in a car accident.

He was smart and enjoyed the adventure of doing business in unlikely places — in 1996, he wrote a book about exporting.