Sentences with phrase «author of working from»

Carol Lawrence is an energetic practitioner, blogger, author of Working From Home As A Virtual Assistant, social media manager, author interviewer, book reviewer, and co-author of Intentional Conscious Parenting.

Not exact matches

A new book from the author of «The Art of Nonconformity» asks: What if today was your last day of working for someone other than yourself?

«The tipping point where boring work becomes detrimental occurs when the mental drain prevents you from experiencing the positives a majority of the time,» said Shawn Achor, happiness researcher and author of The Happiness Advantage, in an email.

What's worse, such rules take control away from the employee, leading to feelings of powerlessness and disengagement, says Stew Friedman, author of Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life.

While the research was aimed at eventually developing treatments for those suffering from PTSD, the study authors said these initial findings were also useful for those of us who just have to deal with normal negativity like marital spats and nasty work disagreements.

«We like to call him the fish whisperer,» says Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin and the author of the excellent new book, 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line.

The Power of Nice describes an exercise from the authors» seminars, in which attendees are paired off, each playing either the «agent» or the «publisher» in working out a book deal.

The authors — Chip is a professor at Stanford, and Dan works at Duke's corporate education program — looked at ideas from the golden rule to popular urban legends to create a checklist of what makes an idea truly memorable.

Their report ends by noting that «much of the research for this paper and its writing were done by the authors working from home.»

Charles Duhigg, staff writer for The New York Times and author of The Power of Habit, answers questions from readers on Quora on topics ranging from how to develop a blogging habit to what it's like to work as a journalist.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

A lawyer and author of several books, Höffner's new two - volume work, Geschichte und Wesen des Urheberrechts (his preferred English translation is The History and Nature of Copyright) contends that the German states» 19th - century transformation from an agricultural backwater to an industrial power the equal of Britain was due in part to their relaxed attitude toward copyright and intellectual property (IP).

And despite lessons learned from the economic crisis — where, arguably, too many extroverted risk - takers in leadership positions wrought financial ruin — and the value of having quiet leaders who, as Good to Great author Jim Collins puts it, «build not their own egos but the institutions they run,» a workplace stigma around introversion still exists.

International Hall of Fame business speaker, trainer, and bestselling business author Michael Kerr shares how one restaurant serves up the fun and connects with their customers, plus a great fun at work tip that helps companies give back to the local community, a quote of the week from Sir Richard Branson, and some wacky food truck names that are hilariously punny.

International business speaker, trainer, and author Michael Kerr shares some random musings and ideas on creating a more rocking workplace, plus a great fun at work tip to help you keep your language clean and simple at work, a fabulous humor quote of the week from Victor Borge, and a contest that really stinks!

About the Author: Stephen Walsh is the director of Lightship Digital and works with ecommerce stores and SME's to improve their conversions and drive improved value from their marketing spend.

-- Rana Florida is CEO of Creative Class Group, and author of Upgrade: Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary.

During his time with Ad Age, he has been recognized with the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award for best range of work by a single author, as well as a Best in Business award for a feature story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Searching For and Finding Value» 9:00 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Charlie Tian, Founder & Director of Research, Guru Focus Topic: «What Worked in the Market from 1998 - 2008: Undervalued Predictable Companies» 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Robert Miles, Author & Conference Organizer & Host [USA] Topic: «Portrait of a Disciplined Investor: Beating the S&P 500 by 6.8 % Annually For 25 Years» 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Optional Tour depart from Ayres Hotel LAX to Huntington Library 12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. Briefing by the Chief Curator of Rare Books on the history of the Huntington Library and the Munger Research Center 12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Continue to Pasadena 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Charlie Munger's Wesco Financial Annual Meeting [The Pasadena Center, 300 East Green Street, Pasadena, CA.]

Anna Nyberg, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University, says there's an important takeaway from the research: «The longer you have worked at a workplace, the better or worse the situation becomes.

Reconnect with contacts from college or previous jobs to let them know you need work: «Everybody finds jobs through networking,» says Lori B. Rassas, an employment attorney and author of «Over the Hill But Not the Cliff.»

Loden, who has written three books, said much has changed from when she worked for one supervisor who used to tell her to smile more and another who invited John Molloy, the author of «Dress for Success,» to assess women supervisors» attire and tell some why they were never going to make it.

rarely would one find an article on blockchain that references a 1789 french document on the Rights of Man — but then again rarely would you come across a work from such a talented author..

Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.

If the work of this author helps anyone suffering from addiction then I applaud it.

Editor's Note: The son of missionary parents, Mark Lutz is Senior Vice President at Opportunity International, a non-profit microfinance organization, and author of the new book UnPoverty: Rich Lessons from the Working Poor.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

In the final chapter, the author quotes a line from one of Tolkien's letters: «The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.»

The author of The Waste Land, that obscure work of dark despair, began to accept assignments from the Anglican Church, tried his hand at Christmas verse and even wrote a series of captions for a patriotic exhibition of war photographs.

She is the author of Education for Continuity and Change: A Traditional Model and is currently working on a book of dialogue between process theology and educational methodologies to be entitled View from the Bridge: A Traditional Model and is currently working on a book of dialogue between process theology and educational methodologies to be entitled View from the Bridge: Theology and Educational Method.

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

Collingwood interprets this characterization as follows: «In Whitehead the resemblance is more with Hegel; and the author, though he does not seem to be acquainted with Hegel, is not wholly unaware of this, for he describes the book as an attempt to do over again the work of «idealism,» «but from a realist point of view.»

This does not mean, of course, that the author ever forgets or betrays his science; what it does mean is: that the reader's approach, and response, to these pages must of necessity be quite different from those demanded by the scientific works.

In the interesting and stimulating book, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, the authors John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler compare passages from two of Whitehead's works — The Concept of Nature and Science and the Modern World — and declare them to be mutually incompatible (ANC 216).

There is no way to escape the fact that our common sense approach to the universe, our common sense of how it works, is very different in some important ways from the common sense of the Biblical authors and the formulators of orthodox Christian doctrine.

Working as a music critic, author and broadcaster he lived «as a sort of urban hermit» as Katherine expresses it, and as a counsellor took a rather different approach from the standard secularist one.

Relying on the work of Lewis Ford, the author traces the concept of God that emerges in the middle of Whitehead's writings and develops from its atheistic / agnostic origins into a more fully developed conceptualization of God.

God authors the maturity of all believers by His own hand, and far be it from us to belittle His transformative work in another because it came through a tool we deem lesser.

The author's final chapters lay great stress on the work of the Holy Spirit in Christian healing; and many of the verses from the Bible that early AAs studied can be found cited by Hickson in these chapters — verses from the Gospels, from Acts, from James, from Corinthians, from Ephesians — and others dealing with the «gifts of healing.»

As just one example, we have the story of Jesus turning water into wine in the Marriage of Cana story in John 2:1 - 11, which appears to have been borrowed by the unknown author or authors, i.e., the Johannine community (see the Wikipedia article «Authorship of the Johannine works»), from stories of Dionysus turning water into wine.

The conclusions from this paragraph are derived from the author's work with dozens of pastors who have worked with formation and feedback groups in their congregations.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

If you have never encountered author, reviewer and essayist Edward Short, you are in for a real adventure in the pages of this book; and if you know his work already, you know what to expect from this erudite, articulate writer of both catholic and Catholic interests.

In the Epistle to the Hebrews, where the author is attempting to define or characterize the profoundly religious ideas of priesthood and sacrifice and to show in what sense the work of Christ can be understood in terms of those ideas, he introduces a strangely vivid and moving reference to the narrative of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, which is familiar to us from the gospels (Hebrews 5:7 - 10).

Christian authors might be a little put - off by his use of profanity and his idea of God and angels, and praying to the Muses, but the premise behind the book is sound: There are forces at work to keep us from being and doing what God has made us for, and until we fight off those forces and get to doing what we were created for, we will be miserable.

I had read much of Borges's work, including many relatively unknown essays and reviews, as I prepared to write a dissertation on his «Libros y autores extranjeros» («Foreign Books and Authors»), a biweekly column he published from 1936 - 39 in the Buenos Aires magazine El Hogar.

It is clear the author wants us to understand this state of repentance in this context from the perspective of turning from the dead works, rather than sin itself, otherwise he would not have explained the falling away and the importance of leaving the Levitical law in such detail.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

It differs from ordinary prefaces because it does not state who the author is; it resembles them in its statements about (1) the occasion of the work, (2) its reliance on trustworthy materials, and (3) its insistence upon the competence of the author.

Today's guest post comes all the way from Laos, where my friend Lisa McKay — author of the highly acclaimed novel, My Hands Came Away Red — lives with her husband Mike, who works for a humanitarian organization in the region.