Sentences with phrase «books about them for»

A book about her for young people captures her lifelong curiosity

He might even write a book about it for others who would like to replicate his model to open successful schools.

Not exact matches

In 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPad.

The entire book is about her transformation from doing what people expect her to do to someone who thinks for herself.

First is a catalog pagination meeting — we look at all the product that is coming for our summer book and think about how we're going to bring it out and the stories we'll be telling.

While Gates admits he isn't usually «one for tear - jerkers about death and dying,» he was drawn to Kalanithi's search for meaning through books, writing, his family, medicine, surgery, and science.

But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

Although entrepreneurship is all about having a bias towards action, this list is well curated for books that don't give generic advice but more practical tips for a busy entrepreneur.

«When I was interviewing couples for my book The Daddy Shift, I found the happiest ones were those who weren't hung up on ideas about what a man should do and what a woman should do.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

As Entrepreneur magazine observed in a recent article about the book industry, we now have a «market flooded with forgettable books created by companies for hire.»

How about we agree that you just take my word for it (or read my book), rather than try to learn these prison leadership lessons in their natural setting?

Guy Kawasaki addresses emotional contagion in his book Enchantment: «Smiling sends a very clear message about your state of mind, not smiling creates an opening for many interpretations, including grumpiness, aloofness, and anger.»

If the book helped them lose 50 pounds, they'll talk about it because people will praise them for losing all that weight, and sharing this information will raise their status among their friends.

For the $ 119 annual fee, Prime members gets a slew of benefits (which definitely range in usefulness): free two - day shipping, free same - day shipping, and free two - hour delivery on eligible items (of which there are many), exclusive rewards and discounts, Prime Video, Prime Music, online photo storage, music and books, and about 20 other perks.

For example, if you were an author writing a book about how to drive traffic to a website, you need to find an example of how your business suffered when it didn't have traffic to its site.

For example, you might have an interesting conversation with someone about a book, and when you see them again a month later, you show up with the book in hand.

On April 27th, he is launching a campaign for Synergist to raise money for the company using their own platform, an industry - first for a socially driven company.Jared has also worked for 2 Silicon Valley start - ups and is currently writing a book about other inspiring young entrepreneurs and innovators.

However the events are organized, Doug Wead, who worked for President George H.W. Bush and wrote a book about presidents» children, said the Trumps are experts at event planning.

When I met Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) at a book signing, I shared a story with him about a signing I did at which the only person who showed up was my mother.

Generally speaking, positioning is figuring out where in the market the book fits — what the book is about, who the book is for and what result you want from the book.

Just ask yourself — who has to know about my book in order for it to get the results I want?

Biderman was a relentless publicity hound, publishing a book about marriage, posing for unfortunate pictures, and saying many things he probably wishes he hadn't, such as: «We have done a really great job of making sure our data is kept secret.»

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.

There are many classic books about writing effective copy, and «How to win friends and influence people» should be required reading for anyone who wants to improve their marketing chops.

But the short answer for anyone who doesn't want to buy a book is that the standard old - fashioned clinical trial is designed to answer a specific question about a population with lots of different specific characteristics.

McGrady, who worked for Diana and the royal family from 1993 until she died in 1997, shared a few tidbits about the princess in his book, «The Royal Chef at Home,» his second cookbook that is set for release on September 1.

Human resources expert Jason Evanish, for example, suggests offering thoughtful gifts like a book on a subject your sales rep cares about.

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

Ron Diebert considers himself unfortunately lucky in that he has a new book out, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace, that's all about the sort of government privacy abuses currently making big headlines.

Yes, many of us have heard about it, we've read books on it, but for the lay person just getting started on their immersion into emotional intelligence, what is it exactly and how do you know when you're being emotionally intelligent?

When I came up with the idea for my first book, 101 Ways to Market Your Business, I spoke to a number of people in marketing about it.

The best - selling book about baseball stats is a must - read for anyone interested in corporate ethical performance.

The book holds important lessons for business managers generally, but in particular it holds lessons about business ethics.

He's known for his writing on race and politics — so it makes sense that his latest project, a comic book series for Marvel called «Black Panther,» is about the first black superhero in mainstream U.S. comics.

In that first year at Reed, Jobs also read «Diet for a Small Planet,» a book about protein - rich vegetarianism that went on to sell three million copies.

Brenda Bryan, a former Seattle yoga and doga instructor, wrote one of the best - known books about doga: Barking Buddha: Simple Soul Stretches for Yogi and Dogi.

Rhett Power is head coach at Power Coaching and Consulting and the author of The Entrepreneur's Book of Actions, a new book about daily exercises for becoming wealthier, smarter, and more successBook of Actions, a new book about daily exercises for becoming wealthier, smarter, and more successbook about daily exercises for becoming wealthier, smarter, and more successful.

But what if, for some reason, you were only allowed to read nine books about managing people?

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

Halfway through last year, Jason Kint of the advertising trade group Digital Content Next looked at the total ad revenue booked by those two companies as a proportion of the overall industry, and found that they accounted for about 90 % of all the growth in the business.

One thing you can be sure about, however, is that if you start receiving negative feedback and ratings from your guests, it'll become harder for you as a host to generate bookings, as guests who are savvy using the Airbnb service will know to seek out accommodations that have received better reviews and ratings from past guests.

Going gluten - free has become something of a fad in recent years, with cookery books about «clean eating,» and myths being spread that wheat is bad for digestion.

The thing about meaning is that it's best conferred by giving the topic personal relevance,» explains Page19, which suggests that for each new book you ask yourself what you hope to learn, how it might change your life, and why you should bother reading it.

Silcoff joined me for a chat about the book and the lessons it can provide to other companies, especially Canadian ones.

In November, Toronto approved the booking of more hotel rooms for refugee claimants through the end of 2018, at a cost of about C$ 20 million, according to city documents.

I mention how to in this episode but to name a few you can write a book about the topic you love, guest post on other sites, speak at trade shows, or write for magazines.

Ms. Huffington writes about her vision for a society and workplace culture where sleep is prioritized over pushing the limits and burning the candle at both ends in her new book The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time.

How to Fix the Future is a truly important book and the most significant work so far in an emerging body of literature — others of note are Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants and Zeynep Tufekci's Twitter and Tear Gas — in which technology's smartest thinkers are raising alarm bells about the state of the Internet, and laying groundwork for how to fix it.