In order to really engage I need at least 20 - 30 minutes of
book reading time, not two or three minutes in a checkout line.
I lack
book reading time and unfortunately writing time, but I appreciate you sharing these sites.
Blog reading time (and sadly, much
book reading time) has been displaced with conversations overheard and videos shared.
Not exact matches
By no means do I know it all, but I do know one thing: If you
read this
book and truly adopt the methodology when growing your business, it WILL save you
time and money (and possibly fights with your co-founders).
However, because I spend so much
time commuting, I'm able to «
read» a
book a week simply by playing audiobooks while I'm driving.
I don't have a lot of
time in between my business and school to pick up and
read physical
books.
While it's tempting to stream your favorite show in your down
time,
reading a helpful
book instead can give you the tools you need to actually achieve your goals.
There's no
time to be «
reading a
book on the theory of diversification,» he said.
- take
time away from the day - to - day running of the business to
read books or attend seminars as a way to uncover new ideas and approaches to running the business with the goal of uncovering the kink that's holding up its progress.
It was recommended that he
read the
book The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer, which explains how the automaker used «lean manufacturing» techniques to reduce wasted
time and resources and install higher quality - control measures.
«I
read this
book when it was first published and I was a first -
time CEO at Cobalt Networks.
I've
read this
book dozens of
times and I still re-
read it every now and then.
If you
read every
time management
book ever written or go to every
time management seminar offered, you'll be able to boil all the technique «stuff» down to just a few things worth doing.
I've
read a couple from this list and countless
books on business strategy and planning in my
time but none more helpful than The Institute Way.
«For years, I've been saying Steven Pinker's The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best
book I'd
read in a decade,» writes Gates, who is clearly a long -
time Pinker fan, but he continues, «his new
book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.»
Sometimes even something as simple as
reading a
book can give you that valuable
time off from each other.
If you want to learn how you can achieve exponential success in record -
time, whether in your personal life or career, you can start
reading the
book today!
I frequently speak about this when I lecture on college campuses, but even if you are not a full -
time employee at a major company, internships will get you so much farther than any
book you
read or class you take.
He figured he might pull in an extra $ 40 or $ 50 a month, charging $ 5 at a
time for services like
reading scripts for commercials or doing narration for audio
books.
I am not kidding here, I'm probably forced to turn off my laptop and
read a
book (or write a blog like this one) at least 50 percent of the
time.
The
book might be engrossing, but it obviously isn't a cheerful page turner, so why take the
time to
read it?
Travel
time needn't be just a chance to catch up on
reading the latest
books.
My advice to every entrepreneur is to make
time to step back, reach for a
book, and incorporate
reading into your values and your everyday work.
Every
time you
read a
book you should be thinking of ideas that you could implement into your business.
After
reading Lupkin's case study on a network marketing company that grew over seventy - million in sales with his approach, Carter knew it was
time for the pair to co-author a
book.
By 8:30 a.m. (the
time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had
read several chapters of a good business
book, listened to part of a podcast, spent
time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.
The idea came from wanting guidance as a first -
time parent, yet not having
time to
read stacks of parenting
books.
This is the type of
book you pick up and
read when your creative well is feeling dry, and you need a swift kick to remember why it is you love the grueling and often
times frustrating job of «being creative.»
Every
time, after only one or two weeks, the «
book club» was disbanded because there were always those individuals who did not
read, no matter how much
time we gave them.
My
time with the Red Sox organization taught me more about sales challenges than any
book I ever
read on the topic.
Customers buy three to four
times as many
books after they buy the Kindle device... That's such a remarkable increase in the amount of
book purchasing, it seems pretty likely to be an increase in the rate of which people buy
books [over all]... I hear this from people every day, that they're actually recapturing minutes of the day for
reading.
Or maybe it's not the right
time to
read a
book,» observes Foroux.
Kottke recently shared a list of the
books he and Jobs
read around their
time at Reed — ones that inspired Jobs's travels across the globe as well as his professional pursuits.
Having the right physical
book with you at the right
time when you suddenly have an hour to kill somewhere or trying to decide which
books to bring with you on vacation or if you're even going to want to
read the ones you picked when you get there, these are big problems that digital
reading helps solve.
It's one of those
books that you can
read 50
times and get something different with each successive
reading.
If you add up all the
time you spend
reading books, blogs, and articles; watching videos, podcasts, webinars, and seminars, and posting, tweeting, messaging, and connecting, how many hours a day on average do you think it comes to?
Take
time to watch a movie or
read a
book you've been dying to dig into.
The takeaway here — as much as it pains someone who writes for the Web to say it — is that the best sort of
reading is probably the most old - fashioned: just you, a
book, and a quiet room for an extended period of
time.
Take
time to
read books for pleasure, not just for work, and while you're at it, do some writing, too.
Invest money in
books and invest the
time needed to
read them.
A CRY OF DE-STRESS: Speaking of
time, few things are as stressful as staring at a towering stack of
books and journals you know you'll never get around to
reading.
Add this
book to his
reading list: What is the nature of space and
time?
As a result, Harry Potter is one of the most
read books of all -
time.
Neither is geologist Liz Hajek, but she makes an exception for this
book: «I don't generally gravitate toward fiction, but this collection of short stories, set in a variety of compelling places and
time periods, is so creative and rich, it's been really fun to
read.»
Worse, when I actually did have
time to indulge in something entertaining —
reading a
book, watching a movie or attending a college football game — it was almost impossible for me to fully enjoy the experience due to the gnawing guilt that I was not at trade show or making a sales call or reconciling the financials.
Here's an experience I've had over
time that I'm guessing you can relate to: many of the
books I've
read that have taught me the most or had the greatest impact on me do not appear on the recommended lists of business luminaries, famous authors, or Hollywood stars.
«At the
time we
read the
book as an executive team, our business struggled at creating alignment in working toward goals, and at having a strong internal and external communication model.
«After
reading hundreds of personal development and business
books, this one is my all -
time favorite.
This line and this
book are things I
read many
times before starting American Financing in 1999.
'' [This] is a
book I
read during my
time at Stanford Business School.