Sentences with phrase «harming good authors»

I think harming good authors will not go down well.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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:

He added that the author's comments were «dismissive of children being harmed», saying it was «naivety at best and, at worst, a dismissal of understanding that when we talk about indecent images of children, we're talking about a crime scene where children have been abused.»

The author examines ways that technology can be more of a harm than good and how to help take back your days.

Do No Harm recounts operations that can go well, or in some cases very, very badly, and its author is brutally honest about the mistakes he has made.

«The findings provide good support for the general safety of phase I trials,» said lead author Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, chair of the department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Penn. «Some have claimed that these trials pose high risks of harm to participants.

Avoid filling your CV with these trite words, says Lindsey Pollak, author of Getting from College to Career (HarperCollins, 2007), as they can make your CV «appear empty to a potential employer and may do more harm than good».

«If you're a parent, it's better to focus on the benefits of broccoli and not the harms of hamburgers,» said lead author Brian Wansink, PhD director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Slim by Design.

However, Elliott Maxwell, author of a recent report from a business group that found the NIH policy is increasing access without harming publishers, said NIH's policy is a good model.

As a medical doctor specializing in gut health and the author of Happy Gut, I am finely attuned to how these drugs ultimately create more harm than good.

Recently, thanks to authors of blockbuster books like Good Calories, Bad Calories, The Big Fat Surprise, and The Primal Blueprint, the reading public has come a long way in our understanding of the health harms of trans fat, and the lack of harm from natural saturated fat.

May 21, 2015 • Anthropologist Barbara J. King interviews Harvard University's Susan Greenhalgh, author of the new Fat - Talk Nation, who says one surprise is that compliments on weight loss may do more harm than good.

The authors are well aware of the limitation our complex political system places on any effort at change and reform, and in view of this complexity, they do not expect much: if some policy does more good than harm, that is good enough for them.

At the forum, held at PS 89 in New York City's Tribeca, Ravitch — author of the best - selling «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education policies.

On Sunday, a full - page ad will appear in The New York Times, paid for by a group of best - selling authors and signed by 900 other authors, calling on Amazon «in the strongest possible terms to stop harming the livelihood of the authors on whom it has built its business.»

As noted in last week's post, if a writer takes to social media to do a hatchet job on an agent or editor and doesn't back up what they are saying, well, that author comes across as a prima donna and only does himself harm.

He is the author of a number of best - sellers, including Bodily Harm, Murder One and The Cyanide Canary.

I know that sentiment of «not wanting it badly enough» is around, and I steer clear of it whenever possible (I'm not a traditionally published author, although it is my dream), and that kind of badgering generates so much stress and anxiety, that ends up doing more harm than good, I agree!

Mark Coker, CEO and founder of the hugely successful ebook distribution platform Smashwords, wrote a blog poston how the sales figures for an indie author versus those of a traditionally published author can demonstrate something that not many in the industry know: a traditional publishing deal might actually do more harm than good for an author.

While I pride myself as an indie author and piracy activist, I have come to discover that there are people who consider themselves the same, but who do more harm than good to the rest of us.

Many authors who approach a local store owner / manager cause more harm than good.

Failure to do so could not only harm publishers, but their authors and readers as well.

But I digress (something I seem to do a lot around you people), my point is do these dark, sexy covers do more harm than good for authors and readers alike.

In terms of public perception, I think that traditionally published authors are doing themselves (and Hatchette) more harm than good.

Most self pubbed authors don't release a book expecting high sales - but they work at it and if they are good then they will get somewhere and there is no harm in that.

Book reviews from websites with a bad reputation could actually do more harm than good to your credibility as an author.

I mean, isn't an ad a lot better for authors than maybe, I du n no, sharing that $ 100,000 with authors who were harmed because Hachette dragged its feet for eight months to sign a new deal with Amazon?

Although they shouldn't put their seal of approval or support on just any project (they need to be careful with the trust they've built with their followers), in general putting a blurb on another author's book will bring far more good than harm — it gets their name and the name of their book out to new readers.

So by «wrong» I mean, «inefficient» — as in, these are things indie authors do, but that they should stop doing because they don't produce positive results (and can actually do more harm than good).

The author is well meaning, but in my opinion, is a dog trainer wannabe, and would do more harm than good for her dog.

In The Guardian, thankfully, Dean Burnett, a neuroscientist, standup comic and author of «The Idiot Brain,» has tried to tamp things down, explaining why diagnosing Trump is «likely to do more harm than good.»

«We know from observations that high temperatures can harm crops, but now we have a much better understanding of the processes,» says Bernhard Schauberger from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, lead author of the study.

«We've already learned about all the toxic stuff that harms relationships,» says psychologist Dacher Keltner, author of Born to Be Good.