Sentences with phrase «big book of business»

Given the state of the legal industry, you could argue that the only true job security comes from building a big book of business.

Big bills = big success = big book of business!

3) Question: I'm a law partner with a big book of business looking to make a lateral move.

A call for the industry to avoid silence when witnessing harassment and hold perpetrators — no matter how big their book of business — accountable

Partners are being pressured to bill more and older partners with big books of business want to stay longer.

Too often, department and practice groups are led by the most senior lawyer or the lawyer with the biggest book of business.

Not exact matches

«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.

The latest attempt came on Saturday, when an article ran in The Wall Street Journal to promote a new book, Big Is Beautiful: Debunking the Myth of Small Business, by Robert D. Atkinson and Michael Lind.

Accenture is an example of what naming guru Alex Frankel describes in his book Wordcraft: The Art of Turning Little Words into Big Business as «the synthetic, just - add - water (and a lot of advertising dollars), umbrella name.»

The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

LOCAL advertising and marketing company JMG has set its sights on attracting big blue - chip clients on to its books following a strategic realignment of the business.

According to Seth Godin, author of 13 bestselling business books, the job of a CEO is to think of big ideas rather than micro-communicating.

The family's bank of choice has long been Deutsche Bank, which was the only bank willing to loan to Trump after he lost others money in a series of bankruptcies — something he figured «was the bank's problem, not mine,» he wrote in his 2007 book, «Think Big: Make it Happen in Business and Life.»

Heffernan has been chief executive of several businesses including the ZineZone Corporation and the iCAST Corporation and is the author of the book «Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes.»

I booked a one way ticket to Spain and worked on my business for three months abroad where the cost of living was nearly one - fourth of the Big Apple.

The biggest proponent of transparency in the workplace is a company called The Great Game of Business, which offers strategies on open book management.

«There has always been lots of books out there on how to run a big company,» says McFarland, who now runs his own consulting business, McFarland Partners based in Salt Lake City.

It remains the biggest seller of Napoleon Hill's books a perennial bestseller after 70 years (BusinessWeek Magazine's BestSeller List ranked Think and Grow Rich as the sixth bestselling paperback business book 70 years after it was first published).

Among the Big Six banks, BMO also has the highest proportion of its loan book in business loans, at 49 per cent, according to a February note from CIBC World Markets.

This group of 10 money experts includes women who write for big publications (like Forbes, Inc, Business Insider, Fast Company, and Huffington Post), make over $ 100k a month, have created their own companies, have published books, and are successfully running their own podcast.

In addition to a critically acclaimed book, with chapter after chapter of valuable entrepreneurial advice, if you purchase the book and sign up for our newsletter — making you part of our rapidly growing BIG Vision community — we'll grant you access to a video we produced exclusively for Small Business, BIG Vision readers.

His latest book is The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real - Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business now in a new revised paperback edition.

Adam is the author of 7 books including Lead The Field, 21 Ways to Build Your Business with a Book and Book The Business: How to Make Big Money With Your Book Without Even Selling a Single Copy, the # 1 book on marketing for authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan KennBook and Book The Business: How to Make Big Money With Your Book Without Even Selling a Single Copy, the # 1 book on marketing for authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan KennBook The Business: How to Make Big Money With Your Book Without Even Selling a Single Copy, the # 1 book on marketing for authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan KennBook Without Even Selling a Single Copy, the # 1 book on marketing for authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan Kennbook on marketing for authors that he co-authored with marketing legend Dan Kennedy.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

Woolworths» bottom line net profit rebounded to $ 1.53 billion compared with a loss of $ 1.23 billion in 2016, when the retailer booked $ 4 billion in pre-tax asset impairments and restructuring costs on Big W and the now defunct Masters home improvement business.

When it comes to the business of big bets, it doesn't make fiscal sense for books to offer huge limits on events that allow the player to gain an overwhelming edge.

His Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business (Icon Books, # 12.99) argues that capitalism needs to be reined in through regulation and taxation.

CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

Steve: So, this gene duplication business is so interesting and it has such profound importance in evolution and researchers realize that, but I don't think that news has really gotten out to the general public in a lot of ways that in the modern evolutionary theory play book, gene duplication has a really big role.

In addition to the many recent books, articles, and exhibition catalogues converging on the life and art of Johannes Vermeer, various BUILD Series NYC is a live interview series where fans sit inches away from some of the biggest names in entertainment, fashion and business as they share

Adapting a much - beloved novel to the big screen is tricky business, but it always helps if the book's fanbase is made up of teen girls.

In the next few years Comic book adaptations became big business becoming some of the highest grossing motion pictures of all time but to tell you the truth my peeps I have felt increasingly Jaded with the influx of every super character and their Granny getting a movie!

Comic book movies continue to be big business — according to the website Box Office Mojo, the three highest - grossing movies of 2014 so far are «Guardians of the Galaxy,» which is based on Marvel characters, «Captain America: The Winter Soldier,» which tells the story of the Marvel superhero, and «The Lego Movie,» which featured comic book characters such as Batman.

I'm so tired of aggressive sales pressue folks of any promotion and publicity businesses cold - calling me offering services for big bucks on books published many, many years ago, and oh, so outdated and obsolete.

His new Diversion Books, which is a separate business from his literary agency, is similar to AmazonEncore, «somewhere in between the big houses and the lonely road of self - publishing.»

He keeps track of developments in the world of non-fiction, offering bespoke book recommendations to our business book club clients, while also managing projects with our publishers, ensuring that their stock of crime, thriller and commercial fiction titles reach the biggest audience possible.

The book business turned out to be no different than the game business only this time, instead of Toy Fair, the big show was Book Expo Amerbook business turned out to be no different than the game business only this time, instead of Toy Fair, the big show was Book Expo AmerBook Expo America.

Trevor Crane is a 10 - time # 1 international bestselling author and the founder of Bestseller Big Business and Super Kids Books Publishing.

Big W, one of the biggest discount retail stores in Australia, has announced they are venturing into the electronic book business as well.

Not only is he a big fan of CEO Steve Potash — they've known each other for years — but he also sees a big opportunity to grow the business in countries that haven't adopted digital books as quickly as the United States.

Patrick Schwerdtfeger — Keynote Mastery: Become a Keynote SpeakerPatrick Schwerdtfeger is a leading authority on global business trends, including demographics, «big data» and the social media revolution, and the author of the award - winning book Marketing Shortcuts for the Self - Employed (2011, Wiley).

But, warning: even this new form of book publishing hides a business underneath, namely the big deal of self publishing platforms, that nowadays earn much money by the high number of self published authors.

In the 1990s the «Big and Nasty» chains like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books - a-Million — with their sweetheart deals with the Big 6 Publishers — put 1000s of indie bookstores out of business.

In 2010 and 2011, at the height of the e-book scare, I worked for Russia's biggest book publisher, Eksmo, and we were seriously worried that software was going to eat our business.

Laurence keeps track of developments in the world of non-fiction, offering bespoke book recommendations to The Pigeonhole business book club clients, while also managing projects with our publishers, ensuring that their stock of crime, thriller and commercial fiction titles reach the biggest audience possible.

Book publishers now see Amazon, which helped instigate the shift with the establishment of its Kindle business in 2007, as both a big seller of their books and a competitor.

1) The Big Five: Since publishing has gone from being a gentleman's business to being owned, run and operated by corporations, you have a much better chance of getting your book published if you are Snooki from Jersey Shore hawking your new diet manifesto than if you're an unknown (or even established but not famous) writer who's written a brilliant work of literary fiction.

Apple is getting into the business of comic books in a big way, with over 1,500 different editions and graphic novels on its platform.

Digital books is big business with major publishing companies reporting that 10 % of their entire revenue stream derives from eBooks.