Sentences with phrase «authors than author»

However, publisher revenue is far less meaningful to authors than author revenue.

Therefore I believe the route I am writing about here is mainly for translators who are also promoting something else that fits, like similar books or services, but if they do, I see no reason why they shouldn't do it, and in my opinion it would even make more sense if translators approach authors than authors approaching translators — not just when it comes to retrieving rights but translating books in the first place, because they know best what kind of books they think they can successfully promote themselves.

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?

Although this commitment is more modest than the one advocated in Making it Simple, a report I authored for the Mowat Centre, the goal of reducing input costs for manufacturers was identified as a key priority in the paper, which suggested there was more work to be done on this front:

If you need permission to get more shut eye to combat your burnout, look no further than HuffPo founder and Thrive author Arianna Huffington's TED talk.

A long time ago, I learned a very effective way to do this from none other than influential author and podcast host Tim Ferriss.

In one, scholars were asked to read and rate research papers; unbeknown to them, the names had been changed to change the gender of the authors, and the scholars rated the papers «written» by men as better than the ones that appeared to be authored by women.

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.

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.»

The authors believe that with the continuing decline in hardware costs, combined with more powerful computers, companies will build far more advanced robots than the ones we currently have.

The study's authors found that peckish participants in a card game known as the «Iowa Gambling Task» played more shrewdly and made better decisions than those who had eaten.

«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.

While it may seem simple to answer, bestselling management author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch warns that this common interview query can be trickier to respond to than you may think.

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.

«If you fall asleep in less than ten minutes, this is a sure sign you're significantly sleep deprived,» says Dr. Michael Breus, author of Good Night: The Sleep Doctor's 4 Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health (Dutton, 2006).

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?

The authors said Trudeau's fiscal stimulus would add 0.5 % to economic growth this year and next, allowing the economy to reach its non-inflationary level of potential output faster than if former prime minister Stephen Harper's obsession with a balanced budget had remained Ottawa's priority.

The authors make the case that company age is critical, and that's true, young companies do tend to grow more quickly than older ones.

But rather than start up any old publishing company — after all, times and technology have changed in the last century — Gao would build an e-book empire that didn't rely on authors to pump out blockbuster ideas.

Meanwhile, Richard Herman, a Cleveland immigration lawyer and the author of Immigrant, Inc.: Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy, claims nearly all of the net job creation in the past 20 years has come from companies less than five years old.

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.

Work Teams That Work: Skills for Managing Across the Organization Author Anthony R. Montebello includes more graphs, diagrams, and flow charts in his book (from Best Sellers Publishing, 612-888-7672, 1994, $ 24.95) than should really be allowed by law.

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling was rejected more than 130 times before she got noticed.

However, Haberman signed the book deal with fellow NYT White House reporter Glenn Thrush, who was suspended less than two months later following a report by Vox, detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him by several women, including by the article's author.

«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).

Sigel recommends using venture capitalist and business author Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 PowerPoint Rule: 10 slides presented in 20 minutes, with no font smaller than 30 - point type.

A certified financial planner, certified fund specialist and chartered financial consultant with more than 30 years» experience, Carson authored «Tested in the Trenches» and co-authored The New York Times best - seller «Avalanche: The 9 Principles for Uncovering True Wealth.»

Authors of The Fundamental Index: A Better Way to Invest, they found that building indexes based purely on market cap produced worse returns than indexes based on other measures.

But when you stop to think of other options — one of the authors» many tips is to imagine that your current options are vanishing — you'll often discover an answer that's better than what you had been pondering.

«They're selling better than traditional authors,» he says.

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.

The authors conclude that there is a general atmosphere of consolidation in which older, larger businesses are doing increasingly better than new ones.

Martin Ross, another of the paper's authors, who works at the Aerospace Corp. in El Segundo, Calif., explains that hybrid motors favoured by space tourism companies are safer, cheaper to run, and quicker to refuel than the liquid or solid rocket boosters that have dominated rocketry thus far.

«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.

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.

For most, self - publishing revenue remains humble; one survey found that half of all self - published authors bank less than $ 500 for their efforts.

What you can do: Encourage employees to tweet with their own personal voice rather than taking on a scripted tone — a strategy Peter Shankman, founder of the New York - based consulting firm Shankman / Honig and author of Nice Companies Finish First (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) calls «shredding the scripts.»

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.

In fact, authors Thomas Stanley and William Danco found in their book «The Millionaire Next Door» that a majority of millionaires reached that goal by spending less than they earned.

I wholeheartedly agree with George MacDonald, the nineteenth century Scottish author and poet, who said «To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.»

A longtime Conservative, Steiner entertained the author more than two decades ago when Archer was deputy chairman of the U.K. Conservative Party.

«Customized landing pages — which send the user directly to the item or offer featured in the e-mail — can increase conversion rates by more than 25 percent,» the authors write.

-- 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

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

By studying the long history of Chinese energy companies in the global marketplace, study author Margaret Cornish determined «their organization and strategy reflect and respond to their global rivals rather than the Chinese state.»

He is a busy man: scientist, professor, author of more than 100 papers.

Instead, the authors describe recently discovered remains that suggest the first Homo sapiens showed up more than 100,000 years earlier than we thought in a place many experts didn't suspect.

By helping your employees build that brand rather than squelching individuality, you can build an army of very powerful advocates,» says Ted Rubin, author of Return on Relationship #RonR and Dynamic Signal adviser.