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We asked the author of That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) about Working Together for the lessons she learned the hard way.

«Become vigilant about attributing comments to the people who made them first,» Bohnet, who is the author of «What Works: Gender Equality by Design,» says.

Now, new findings from psychologist and author Jean Twenge are adding to the gloom about the state of adulthood in this country.

Many of the author's articles about China have been copied word - for - word into Chinese by digital outlets on the mainland.

Daniel Pink, author of «Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us,» has found that we're motivated by three things:

The study's authors say that getting people to think favourably of your accomplishments might be better achieved «by modest self - representation, or even self - denigration, than by outright bragging about one's positive qualities.»

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.

«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.

The author of «The Bitcoin Big Bang — How Alternative Currencies are About to Change the World» breaks down the basics of how digital currencies work and explains how investors can get in on the action.

According to Jeffrey Augustine, author of the blog The Scientology Money Project, the church has a book value of $ 1.75 billion, about $ 1.5 billion of which is tied up in real estate, mostly at its headquarters in Clearwater and in Hollywood, Calif..

In an interview at the 2017 Inc. 5000 conference in Palm Springs, California, on Thursday, the entrepreneur, investor, and author talked about what it really takes be successful, his recent brush with cancer, and of course, the inside scoop on Shark Tank.

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.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

«By asking this question, you can uncover exactly what issues the hiring organization has identified and is currently dealing with,» says Heather McNab, author of What Top Professionals Need to Know About Answering Job Interview Questions.

Most authors think the purpose of the introduction is to lay out and explain everything the author will talk about in the book.

Oliver Levine, an Assistant Professor in Finance, and the Patrick A. Thiele Fellow in Finance, at the Wisconsin School of Business, and Brent Glover, an Assistant Professor of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University, are two of the authors behind this paper, and I recently had a chance to speak to them about their research.

In Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong (Riverhead), Tugend — author of The New York Times» ShortCuts business column — explores the disconnect between what we're told about mistakes and how we feel about them.

Andy Weir, author of «The Martian», a realistic tale of survival in space, is about to release his second and highly anticipated novel, «Artemis».

The two - minute «documentary,» created by ad agency 72andSunny (which is owned by MDC) features controversial military vet Ollie North and author P.W. Singer talking about the cornucopia of ways advanced technology could be used to hasten our grisly demise.

Author Kelly Shue, of the University of Chicago, says boards» apparent mistake is a common one, highlighted by years of research in the field of behavioral economics, and much like the way workers get confused about the effect of inflation on the real value of their paychecks.

The anonymous author of the letter claims that his firm was holding short positions and planned to tell the world, through Internet postings, about the fraud.

It was there that author F. Scott Fitzgerald spent some time with his friend Rumsey, learning about «the lifestyle of the moneyed aristocracy of Old Westport, Long Island, and their involvement in the movement of eugenics,» according to a 2015 article in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review.

Robert Kiyosaki (www.richdad.com), author of the Rich Dad series of books, is an investor, entrepreneur and educator whose perspectives have changed the way people think about money and investing.

It's good to give employees these options because «one thing you don't want to do is require people to report only to their supervisors, because unfortunately that may be the person who they have a complaint about,» says Lisa Guerin, an attorney specializing in employment law and the author of The Essential Guide to Workplace Investigations: How to Handle Employee Complaints & Problems.

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.

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.

On her own, she is the author of the 2008 - 2009 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller «10-10-10: A Life - Transforming Idea,» a decision - making concept she originally wrote about as a columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine.

Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy and author of «Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America,» explains how Americans have historically been naive about the Russians.

Dan Primack is a senior editor at Fortune and the author of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter about private equity.

«When people are surprised on Twitter, they are going to tweet about it and that's how things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).

So does James Marshall Reilly, the author of new book, Shake the World: It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these About Creating a Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on which young people must build their careers these days.

Kim Stanley Robinson, «New York 2140» author, talks about what needs to be done to get humans beyond the moon and how financial markets could play into the future of space travel.

The difficult choices at the poker table are akin to author Ben Horowitz's classic example of executive decision - making in «The Hard Thing About Hard Things.»

Host and author Nora McInery speaks open and honestly about how pain can be addressed in some of the most effective ways.

«All of us grow up with a set of expectations about what we're supposed to do,» the study's lead author, Harvard Business School professor Kathleen L. McGinn, tells Business Insider.

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.»

Gretchen Rubin, the bestselling author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, offers advice about how to be happy in her popular podcast which she co-hosts with her younger sister, Elizabeth Craft.

What it's about: An intimate memoir, this book paints a portrait of a Vietnamese family — the author's own — fleeing the country in 1978.

The problem is that every example the author gave about how networking doesn't work was an example of really bad networking!

«Young people are excited about being involved in food,» says Daniel Halpern, co-founder of Ecco, which recently launched a food imprint run by chef, author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain.

She's released a series of workout DVDs such as Bodyshred and Body Revolution, authored a handful of bestselling books about weight loss, and in 2014 launched a women's and children's activewear brand called Impact.

The young Sulzberger was one of the authors of the Innovation Report digital manifesto that the Times came out with in 2014, which talked about the potential threats from competitors like BuzzFeed.

At larger companies, the study's authors explain, engagement is largely a matter of an employee's relationship with his or her direct supervisor, and how the employee feels about the company's leadership.

The authors of that study have downplayed its findings, saying that while «we stand by our finding that some non-citizens have voted in recent elections,» the study's findings about noncitizen voting had been exaggerated and misrepresented.

The authors of the new report aren't shy about pointing out the factors they believe are behind America's slide into unhappiness.

«Social Security is about as complicated a fiscal system as is humanly possible to design,» said Larry Kotlikoff, an economics professor at Boston University and author of the book «Get What's Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security,» set for release in February.

I became obsessed with radical science, the future of technology, the future of biotech... I was reading very interesting scientists and authors that were speaking about ideas of singularity, and life extension, and science fiction.

«There are only a few worth worrying about,» says Web consultant Peter Kent, president of Denver - based iChannel Services and author of Search Engine Optimization for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons, April 2004).

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.