Sentences with phrase «books as an idea»

Over the past year, I have had the opportunity to be part of three Book - to - Screen Pitchfests where authors learn how to pitch their book as an idea for adaptation for film or television and then have the opportunity to pitch to entertainment executives in a speed - dating like setting.

The important thing is these two authors had the opportunity to pitch their books as an idea for film or television and it worked.

Not exact matches

The books also deal with the chasm between rich and poor and the idea of socialism as a solution to capitalism's ills.

The book teaches you to treat your business ideas as hypotheses, and test them using an MVP, which is, the least amount necessary to prove if your idea has a market or not.

The more interesting arguments, however, centre around the idea of books as products.

- 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.

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.

The idea came from wanting guidance as a first - time parent, yet not having time to read stacks of parenting books.

These two ideas also have fans questioning the new project, as they aren't exactly names you'd expect to see attached to comic book movies.

Check out the book for more specifics and ideas on how and what to plan (as well as tips on how to manage chores and children to make this possible).

In his new book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Penguin), Jon Gertner vividly tells the story of the transistor, as well as the dozens of other innovations that rolled out of Bell Labs.

The commonly read book, The E-Myth, helped popularize this idea that entrepreneurs should outsource as many parts of a company as possible.

Just as every story needs a headline and every book needs a title, a good storyteller will start with the one big idea before expanding on the details.

The authors of both books recognize that the chances of a product or idea taking off phenomenally are enhanced by social groups that «provide the resources for their members to learn,» as Brown and Duguid put it.

The interview, as a whole, also provides a fascinating glimpse of Dunn as a person, including where he gets his ideas, his favorite business book, and his first paying job.

Meanwhile, Vox recently floated the idea of Fox going all - in on Deadpool by launching a film series, similar to Disney's The Avengers series, that would see his character team up with others from the X-Men comics to form a group known in comic books as the Uncanny X-Force.

The book has more of a consumer - goods angle, but many of the ideas explored — such as measuring customers» lifetime value — also apply to business - to - business settings.

«The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor — with no lawyers,» Bannon is quoted as saying in the book, according to The Guardian.

Or, if you're looking for more suggestions on how to keep your small - town, small - company values as your business grows, check out this post rounding up ideas from the book Small Town Rules by Barry Moltz and Becky McCray.

This inspiring book follows Adam Braun, the founder of Pencils of Promise, and how he turned $ 25 into over 250 schools by combining a for - profit business approach with social sector idealism for an idea known as «For - Purpose.»

In his book Unleashing the Ideavirus, Seth Godin talked about the viral influencer as a «sneezer» (i.e. someone who spread ideas simply by embracing them).

The failure of the Centerville computer plan, as laid out in a new book by John Kotter and Lorne Whitehead, serves to remind us that no idea, no matter how good, is bulletproof.

You might know Seth Godin as a sort of marketing legend, the author of books such as Unleashing the Ideavirus, «the most popular e-book ever published,» according to his marketing materials (I have no idea how I'd check that), and Purple Cow, «the best - selling marketing book of the decade» (similar caveat).

During research for my book, Making Ideas Happen, I was surprised by how many legendary creative leaders credited some form of therapy as a part of their professional success.

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the book that popularized the idea that mastery in a given field takes at least 10,000 hours of practice, had just come out, as had Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated and Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, both of which emphasized the role of dedicated practice (and discounted natural - born talent) in excellence.

«As a long - time reader of both Jay Levinson's and Shel Horowitz's previous books, I have to keep wondering why I'm surprised to see such a remarkable collection of wisdom - busting innovative ideas, all in one place.

He designed the book as an «analog app,» illustrating his ideas while teaching marketers how to implement them.

Mr. Yubas is the author of the book «Product Idea to Product Success: A Complete Step - by - Step Guide to Making Money from Your Idea» as well as several articles, eBooks, Kits, audio programs, and DVD.

As this excellent and informative book details, even the idea of live television from the Moon was a matter of heated debate, and there were moments when it might've gone the other way.

Recognized as a «branding expert» by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future and her most recent book, Stand Out: How to Find Your Breakthrough Idea and Build a Following Around It, was released in April 2015.

The idea is that as people will be able to book and use transit tickets from within the Uber app.

The aim of this review is to deeply understand the ideas of the book, and to compare them with related and competing ideas as they exist elsewhere in the world.

This «end of growth» idea appears outside Canada as well — American economist Robert J. Gordon (no relation to Canada's Stephen) argues in a new book that the life - changing growth of the 20th century won't be repeated in the 21st century.

I will number each major idea in the book as I come across them in order to create an easily referenceable catalog of ideas.

As a book lover myself, I was prompted to write this article after searching through the internet for business ideas for book lovers and I didn't find anything...

To make sure this book presented ideas as diverse as the family office industry itself, we spoke with «thousands of family offices and conducted recorded interviews with dozens of single and multi-family offices to create both the Family Office Monthly Newsletter and this book.

Although I can not make the decision for you, I would recommend you read some books about dividend growth investing, and it will give you and idea as to what to look for in a Dividend growth stock.

The book, then, turns out to be as much about the history of ideas as it is about psychological constants.

Admittedly, Stephen King is a genius with ideas, but although I like many of his books (as movies — The Green Mile) I will not read his books due to the filthy language.

Nietzsche's scorn for «modern ideas» made a profound impression on his admirers: «This book [Beyond Good and Evil],» he said, «is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type that would be the reverse of modern man, for as little like him as possible: a noble, yea - saying man.»

Perhaps he oversimplifies the idea of human will: the «Big Book» of AA indicts the alcoholic as «an extreme example of self - will run riot,» the first requirement for recovery being that he becomes «convinced that any life run on self - will can hardly be a success.»

I know this is a challenging and shocking idea (some might call it heresy), and I hope to defend this idea in a book someday (I am already compiling notes), but such a claim is not as outrageous as it may initially sound.

The metaphor of moving a mountain as it relates to doing the work of peace - making and justice - seeking since my first visit to Haiti crops up often in my life and work — in fact, I ended up dedicating an entire chapter of my book to this beautiful idea).

As a study of the religious perspectives of the men (and women) who went on Crusade, this primarily administrative history is perhaps the best book I have read Neither of these volumes, however, reflects the broadening of perspective that has internationalized the idea of the Crusades.

You may not know this, but lots of god believers actually point to an old book, which was obviously written by people promoting a religious idea, as proof of what their god said.

The bill contains no religious exemption, so it is true that some Christian books that address the issue of homosexuality could be banned from being sold, but as The Federalist notes, «It is virtually impossible that California will immediately attempt to ban the sale of the Bible itself» (though they disputed Snopes» claim that the idea is «demonstrably and clearly false.»)

People will read a book that says How to decrease stress etc. and think they've fallen into some new ideas / discoveries When the Bible tells us... «take no thought, saying»... «fear not» (365 times), «as a man thinks, so he is»....

Here the consequent nature appears as the «Unity of Adventure» (Al 381) In many ways, Adventures of Ideas is Whitehead's most religious book.

I wonder what Inkling champions, such as my friend David O'Hara, co-author of this fine book on mythopoetic literature, would make of that idea.)

Rudolph Otto analyzed the basic element in religion in his book The Idea of the Holy as a compound of fear and of fascination in the presence of overwhelming mystery.