Sentences with phrase «good books at»

No one likes a «suck up» or a «teacher's pet», but let's be honest — staying in the manager's good books at work is important not only to keep your job, but for your long term growth.

They may not be in many people's good books at present, but Konami are hoping to change that (likely somewhat) with an intriguing set of messages as of late.

Purchase some reference book - You'll find numerous good books at your local bookstores and on the internet.

One common habit that is likely to have seen in most of the great leaders or successful leaders is that they love reading good books at leisure.

Thanks for all your work in making it possible to find good books at a good price.

I believe that growing a strong parent - child bond over years of snuggles and good books at bedtime is one of the best things about parenting.

It was written by many people over the span of hundreds of years, it is tribal rules from the infancy of our development and arguably is not a good book at all but full of hatred, spite and unspeakable violence, and you arent allowed to use «faith» as your proof of existence... faith is nothing less than the throwing away of reason i.e. belief without evidence.

Teachers have reported that LightSail allows for the personalization of materials for each student, allowing them to read the best books at their level.

«Christmas is a busy time for everyone so this year we really focused on making the NOOK Christmas Shop the only place readers need to visit to find all of the best books at fantastic value,» said Colin Eustace, General Manager, Barnes & Noble S.à.r.l.

To the point, why take 1 - 2 years to write a good book at a higher price than spend less time on a $ 0.99 book, the industry can allow for both without a big publisher being involved.

She hit the market with a good book at a time when literary fiction was on the upswing.

The purpose of my books is usually to make the experience richer by sharing information about how to get most out of the Kindle and how to find the best books at the best prices.

We want our customers to receive the best books at the best price, so if you have a great book, we'd love to present it to our subscribers.

Put your feet up at the sparkling pool or unwind with a good book at the hotel's well - stocked library.

When you need to recharge your batteries, relax and curl up with a good book at our Costa Coffee bar.

Lose yourself in a good book at a lush, minimalist resort dedicated to the power and beauty of the written word.

There is a teak dining table for family dinners, a sofa lounge for relaxing together with good company or a good book at any time of the day, and in the evening this is the place to cuddle up for a cozy in - villa cinema night, watching movies on the flat screen satellite - TV with DVD - player.

Curl up with a good book at the Public Knowledge Library, a temporary branch of the San Francisco Public Library housed in our Koret Education Center.

Awarded Best Book at the New York Photo Festival for Domesticated; finalist, Santa Fe Prize (2011); finalist, Moran Portrait Prize (2011); nominee, Baum Award for Emerging Photographers; named one of the Top 15 Emerging Photographers in American Photo magazine (2007); featured in Frieze Magazine, Teller magazine, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Harper's, The Boston Globe, Art Lies.

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At the lowest levels, the campaign offered backers exclusive access to Ries's new book, «The Leader's Guide,» as well as a copy of Riese's next non-exclusive book.

Bill Gates has a habit of reading for at least one hour each night, so he makes his way through a good number of books.

And yesterday he was at it again, offering up his own version of that seasonal stand - by, the end - of - year best books list.

I read this book well after I started my business, but I think the hardest lesson for entrepreneurs to grasp is that in order to give your business the best chance for success, you need to reinvest the profits for at least the first year.

Despite continued worries over at sports flagship network ESPN (as well as fears over cord - cutting across the media industry), the Mouse House's media networks booked nearly as much revenue as Disney's parks and resorts and film studio units combined.

Instead of being universally good at book learning, Bryant observed that most if not all were fiercely curious about the world around them.

Or, as Christine Bader describes in her book The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil, corporations including her former employers at BP may well be «advancing human rights in some ways while compromising them in others.»

Dubbed the best business book of the year last year by The Financial Times and McKinsey, this one by a Pulitzer - Prize winning journalist looks at what happened to Janesville, Wisconsin when a General Motors factory that had been operating in the town for 85 years closed.

Gaining perspective is the most fundamental aspect of progression; and because I'm a huge nerd at heart, I believe reading full - fledged books (with sound arguments and universal wisdom) is one of the best ways to combat the wealth of digital misinformation we're faced with today.

Sure, I didn't finish that book proposal I ambitiously thought I would, but I did get pretty good at typing with one hand.

Some, too, dangle free accommodations at a luxury hotel to lure you into a high - pressure sales pitch for timeshares or vacation clubs, while others make good on that free cruise for you, but require you to book a second guest at a grossly inflated price.

It's easy to get caught up in consuming content, but the best way to get better at a sport isn't to read a book about the sport.

How to Get the Most Out of a Conference: Making the Most of Your Time It's not a good idea to completely book your schedule before you arrive at the conference, deciding upon sessions and scheduling all of your meetings.

Whether it's getting on stage to speak, launching your product or writing a book, we tend to see others doing it and incorrectly assume that they've always been good at it.

Further, Kelley Blue Book data shows the average transaction price for the segment at $ 32,000 — well below the $ 43,000 base price Mercedes set for the X-Class in Germany.

George Anders's latest book looks at talent hunting and how some recruiters have spotted better job candidates than the competition.

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.

He's spent his career lecturing to and on the aerospace industry, having taught for several semesters at George Washington University while publishing countless papers and research reports as well as one book on the industry.

If you want to write a book, setting a Challenge that says you'll write for 2 hours a day will automatically trigger some progress and mental momentum, because you know that if you just do that over and over again, for six months, chances are very good you'll have at least a rough draft in place when you're done.

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

In his book, At Ease: Stories I Tell My Friends, he advises, «Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.»

He has written four best - selling books and, at age 57, feels like he is just getting started.

«You look at a lot of ideas, rejecting most of them, flirting with a few, and then — hopefully — settling in for a trial phase with the most attractive and well - rounded option,» he writes in his book.

As Alexandra Troy, founder and CEO of Culinary Architect Catering, explains in my book The Good Ones, a brave employee we'll call Sarah revealed that another employee, Mabel, was bad - mouthing Alexandra behind her back and not paying attention to details at work.

To infiltrate these corporate spaces and get them up to speed, I book keynotes (domestic and international) that put these insights on stage, as well as seminars for BOTs and Destination Marketing Organizations at CultureMeetsCorporate.com that does the same in a more intimate setting.

OUTLOOK: If you can read this business's bottom - line priorities as well as the current owner understands her customers» yen for books, then your tenure at this retailer could be a classic.

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.

Families traveling with children, who have come to rely on movie and game - filled tablets for entertainment, should make sure to pack «some good old - fashioned unplugged entertainment, such as books, puzzle books, and coloring pads,» said Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, family travel expert at About.com.

Serbinis says we're at the very beginning in figuring out the best way to consume books and magazines in digital form.

In Spark's new book, Three Feet From Seven Figures: One - on - One Engagement Techniques to Qualify More Leads at Trade Shows, he explains that each trade show attendee should be seen and treated like one of your top five best customers: a customer who over the course of their lifetime relationship with your business will easily spend over seven figures.

Winkler polices his empire tirelessly — he rises at 4 a.m. and reads 150 articles a day — wielding the Bloomberg Way like a hellfire - and - brimstone preacher clutching the Good Book.