Sentences with phrase «best about it is the author»

What I like best about it is the author does not have to leave the comfort of their home or office to get substantially similar results of an actual book tour.

Not exact matches

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.»

If you're unsure about what your goal for the book is, read this piece about the mistakes that authors make when framing the results they are looking for, and how to better frame.

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.

«When we have to think about our failures - that puts us in a negative mood and research has shown that when people are in a negative mood state, they tend to indulge to make themselves feel better,» lead author Hristina Nikolova explained.

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.

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.

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.

«I recommend routinely tracking what the industry analyst firms like Gartner are reporting about your industry, as well as trade associations and advocacy groups,» says Becky Sheetz - Runkle, author of Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business.

'' [H] e is not utilizing the space well,» said Lori Ruff, a Minneapolis - based trainer, consultant and author who has written extensively about LinkedIn.

If Canadian best - selling author Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about this year's presidential election, he said his title would be «I'm heading home.»

Robin Micheli is a best - selling author and former Time Inc. editor who has written about personal finance and public policy.

And that's why the authors believe executives don't always make the best choices about which ties to reconnect with.

Michael Puett and Christine Gross - Loh are the authors of The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life (Simon & Schuster, 2016)

The study authors suggest that the prime takeaway is that cutting yourself some slack about, well, slacking off is good for you (at least if you're tightly wound), or, as BPS puts it, «the people who could most benefit from the restorative effects of lounge - based downtime... are the least likely to do so.»

David Meerman Scott, a marketing strategist and the best - selling author of Real - Time Marketing and PR says that perhaps the most difficult challenge companies must overcome in creating a viral hit is coming to the realization that the content usually can't be about the product or service itself.

Asking questions during an interview can be an essential opportunity to get insider information about the program, as well as demonstrate interest, curiosity, and enthusiasm to your interviewer, writes Brian Precious, author of «Get In, Get Connected, Get Hired: Lessons from an MBA Insider.»

Bernard Marr, a global enterprise performance expert and a best - selling business author, writes in a LinkedIn post that the reason some interviewers like to ask about weaknesses is to gain insight into how self - aware you are.

«Oil industry companies would do well to be cautious and stop assuming that good relations with PDVSA can last forever due to a common interest in pumping oil,» Raul Gallegos, associate director with the consultancy Control Risks, and author of Crude Nation, a book about how oil ruined the Venezuelan economy, said in an interview with Reuters.

Jill Konrath, three - time best - selling author and sales methodology expert, joins us to talk about why a sale equals a change in the status quo for the customer, why experimentation is powerful and necessary in today's sales culture, and why sales is no longer a numbers game but a game of learning more and learning more efficiently.

When Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of AOL, first met J. D. Vance, author of «Hillbilly Elegy,» the best - selling book about the industrial decline of the Midwest, Mr. Case told him, «I really love the book but there is a part of it I don't love.»

Also, here's a good article about Bitwise — and the author (Laura Shin) is my favorite «mainstream financial media» writer in the cryptocurrency space.

The study's author write «Continually exposing oneself to positive information about others should elicit envy, an emotion linked to lower well - being,» the authors wrote.

I recently interviewed Jay Baer, NYT Best Selling author, blogger, and founder of Convince and Convert, about his 25 years in digital marketing, how to create word of mouth, and why irrelevant content might be slowly destroying your brand.

Understand the Annuity Product - In Plain Language Annie Logue of the Root of All, Chicago on the Cheap, and author of several Money and Investing Dummies books about asks; «When are annuity investment products a good idea?»

Trying to decide what type of loan works best for you is really about your situation, said Casey Fleming, a veteran of the mortgage industry and author of «The Loan Guide.»

The Bitcoin name was tainted in my mind then, but my good friend Steve Patterson, the author of What's the Big Deal About Bitcoin?

If you provide a comprehensive review about another author's content, there's a good chance they (and others) will link to it.

Web content guru Gerry McGovern, author of «Killer Content» — one of the best books on writing copy for the web — says that one of the biggest mistakes companies make in regards to their website content is thinking that customers care one little bit about the company.

We don't know much about the author other than he appears to have no professional financial background or qualifications, is well - qualified in computer science and claims experience in data science and simulation.

It was Philip Fisher, author of the groundbreaking Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, who often exhorted his readers to be cautious about trading in the stock of a company they have known for many years and come to understand well for one with which they are not as familiar as it introduces different types of risk.

In the US, bloggers and authors such as Rachel Held Evans and Sarah Bessey have written about egalitarian theology and are supporting feminism in a way that is accessible to those who are just discovering feminism, as well as for seasoned advocates.

Author Donald Miller was among the bikers of the Ride: Well tour, and RELEVANT caught up with him recently to talk about the ride.

The authors all have mentioned real places, and real people, considering thats about as much as the bible has, I think its safe to say that they're equally valid as well.

Here is a presentation of the author of the best book about Universal salvation, Gerry Beauchemin: Gerry Beauchemin has written a book which should be the standard work in this topic!

I call it theological porn... and you see this in this whole holy hipster author / speaker circuit as well — it's all about pushing one's product in the end.

For Goff, it's not about being a best - selling author or a law professor or the honorary consul for the Republic of Uganda to the United States.

I re-read a book recently, and the author wrote about how she was supposed to speak at an event, and when she asked which topic they would like to here her expound upon, they said, well, just tell us what is saving your life right now.

I agree that the author receiving a «like» feels better about the feedback than they do when receiving a «dislike», but the same can be said for full comments of agreement or disagreement.

Also, even if the author didn't believe in a god and just meant «goodness» this would still, I think, be talking about a «faith» that good would win out.

The author says, he is well known because he challenges some ingrained ideas about Jesus and is good at reducing his message down to a soundbyte.

The author is in fact appealing, over the heads of the agents of persecution, to intelligent and well - disposed persons in Graeco - Roman society, in the belief that accurate information about the origins, aims and principles of the Christian Church would do much to disarm the hostility under which it suffered.

Ironically, as I was reading this book about how to live as Christians in a post-Christian era, I ran across an exchange between atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of the best - selling book God is Not Great) and Suchin Pak (correspondent for MTV news).

Recognizing this inevitable and permanent tension, it is better not to go through this gospel wondering about the factual historicity of each event as it comes, but rather to devote ourselves to the task of understanding what the author is trying to do and say as he shapes his material and presents his witness.

He added that the author's comments were «dismissive of children being harmed», saying it was «naivety at best and, at worst, a dismissal of understanding that when we talk about indecent images of children, we're talking about a crime scene where children have been abused.»

I re-read a book recently, and the author wrote about how she was supposed to speak at an event, and when she asked which topic they would like to here her expound upon, they said, well, just tell us what...

Here's what the authors say about it on their answer page http://www.ptmin.org/answers.htm I thought it was pretty good.

Not only that, I've sort of figured out that Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the best book on America, thought that the French Catholic Pascal taught the truth about who we are, and that the psychology of Pascal more than the History of Rousseau (or the ambiguously natural / Historical Locke) explains to us best of all who we are.

@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls, with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the birth of Christ, Your interpretation of God at His worst shows a complete lack of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language of the day.Most of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»

I have no idea how the author of Fables feels about abortion, and that's a good thing.