Sentences with phrase «good authors do»

Plus, when you do well the author does well, and vice versa; with this symbiotic relationship, it's in everyone's best interest to make sure your authors» are equipped to sell & market their titles.

Being a good author doesn't make sales.

Being a good author doesn't make book sales.

The better the author does, the better everyone does.

It grabs you from the beginning and never lets go and as any good author does, leaves you wanting more by the end of the journey.»

Even the best authors do!

Not exact matches

«There is very little you can do to make yourself better - looking, but you can present yourself better,» says the author of Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful.

What the media has to do now, the authors argue, is not try to fight this alternative ecosystem with better viral content or clickbait, but to «recognize that it is operating in a propaganda and disinformation - rich environment.»

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jeffrey Shinabarger, author of Yes or No: How Your Everyday Decisions Will Forever Change Your Life and founder of Plywood People, a nonprofit in Atlanta that «leads a community of startups doing good.»

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.

Author of «I Know How She Does It,» Laura Vanderkam, explains why the morning is the best time for productivity and exercise.

Dr. John Stahl - Wert, best - selling author of «The Serving Leader,» reveals what leaders worldwide do to succeed.

This gap between the immense curiosity about leadership and the few hard and fast rules about how to do it well has spawned an entire industry dedicated to pedaling dubious leadership «truths,» Stanford business school professor and author Jeffrey Pfeffer warns in a recent McKinsey Quarterly article.

Carissa interviews Carey Grund, owner of Smilegram Paper and author of Pink Lemonade: Sweet Expressions of Inspiration for Girls, on the Small Businesses Do It Better show.

Only later did many readers notice that the authors were not in fact the well - known short - selling firms Muddy Waters and Citron Research, but rather two fake accounts using similar names with misspellings: @Mudd1waters and @Citreonresearc.

The authors conclude that there is a general atmosphere of consolidation in which older, larger businesses are doing increasingly better than new ones.

How Success Happens is a podcast featuring polar explorers, authors, ultramarathoners, artists and more to better understand what connects dreaming and doing.

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.

The late author David Foster Wallace called it a «noxious puff - word [because] it does nothing that good old use doesn't do.»

The author also suggests that when forced to choose between experience and character, those seeking talent would do better to look for defining virtues like confidence, patience and the ability to stay calm.

In one of the most arresting points in the article, the author finds that in the 90s, 83 % of men aged 18 to 25 did not agree with the statement «It is much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family.»

Most authors he's spoken to generally want three things: to do a good job telling their story, to get to the widest audience possible and to earn a living doing so.

Taught by University of Pennsylvania Professor and best - selling author, Jonah Berger, this free online marketing course helps to answer the mystery of why some ideas and products become popular and why others do not.

Take it from William Wooditch, author of «Always Forward: Discover the 7 Secrets of Sales Success,» which is centered around the idea that people can not sustain forward movement without the unconditional resolve to give and do their best every day, without retreat or surrender.

Maggie Koerth - Baker, author of Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us, says utilities simply haven't done a good enough job of explaining the idea.

Professor Harry Kraemer at the Kellogg School of Management, author of Becoming the Best: Build a World - Class Organization Through Values - Based Leadership, tells me that being a social entrepreneur has very little to do with how much money you have or the number of people who report to you.

Scott Gerber, CEO of CommunityCo and author of «Super Connector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships That Matter» discusses what to do to better help your career.

However, David Burkus, associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University and author of the forthcoming book Under New Management, questions whether that obsession with secrecy might do a company culture more harm than good.

The Facebook COO and best - selling author challenges women at Chicago's BlogHer conference to answer the question: «What would you do if you weren't afraid?»

The American Beverage Association dismissed the study in a statement, saying it did «not show that consuming sugar - sweetened beverages causes chronic diseases and the authors themselves acknowledge that they are at best estimating effects of sugar - sweetened beverage consumption.»

Author Maya Angelou captured this idea best when she said, «I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.»

To that end, managers need to do a better job of helping young black women navigate the workplace, «particularly the culture of unspoken expectations,» says Tiffany Dufu, 43, author and chief leadership officer of Levo, a career site for millennial women.

The authors often say they have found the side that makes the first offer tends not to do as well in the negotiation.

The article's author, Steve Denning, dissects the main theme of Martin's book, which is that the current practices around maximizing shareholder value actually do more harm than good:

«We found that in general, the more you engage in creative activities, the better you'll do,» said the study's lead author Kevin Eschleman, an assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State.

But there's a downside as well: self - published authors don't get the marketing materials provided by the Big Six, and have to work very hard in order to rise through the ranks, establish their personal brand, and attract the necessary readership to succeed.

Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of «Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job,» says you don't have to be best friends with your manager, «but you can achieve optimal creativity and success if you feel that you're liked, supported, and respected by them.»

Let's begin with a disclaimer: Words alone do not build trust, says Darlene Price, president of Well Said, Inc., and author of «Well Said!

«Your staff will be very adept at making it a well - kept secret because they will do everything to keep their job security intact,» says Lynn Taylor, a national workplace expert and the author of Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant: How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job.

«This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves,» lead study author David Houghton, of Birmingham Business School, said in a release.

Charles Koch, the chairman of Koch Industries, the $ 115 billion leviathan of 100,000 employees, and author of Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies, says the most compelling reason to focus on profit is because you'll do more good in the long Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies, says the most compelling reason to focus on profit is because you'll do more good in the long good in the long run.

So does Ryan Holiday, the author of the best - selling The Obstacle Is the Way (a really great book) and the compulsively readable Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

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

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.»

Collins is the author of the best - selling business books Built to Last and Good to Great, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some companies become great while others flounder?

The best - selling author also argued that «there's an awful lot» of conservative media, but that she could only «count on one hand the number of conservative talk radio hosts who support Donald Trump, or certainly who did from the beginning.»

«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.

If you don't have any experience that you want to cash in on but have a knack for writing, say, sci - fi stories, then you can author and publish your novel on Amazon as well.

Or as Paul Shapiro, vice president of policy at the Humane Society of the United States and author of the forthcoming book Clean Meat, sums up: «It's possible that folks in this field might end up doing more good for animals than what I've done with my life.»