Sentences with phrase «how authors do»

It seems I can't read enough how authors do it.

No, what gets to me is how these authors do their imitation of that guard in Atlas Shrugged.

The analysis purports to compare how authors do self - publishing versus how they'd do with a publisher and comes to the conclusions that they make more per copy on average self - publishing and maybe even sell more and make better books to boot.

I wonder how authors do in the digital first arms of the traditional publishers like Avon?

When one blew me out of my chair, I read it again to learn how the author did that.

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How does this entrepreneur, mother, author and speaker manage to find success and balance in all of her business ventures?

Marsh calls it, «an eye - opening exploration into how children are raised around the world and how child - rearing can inform the understanding of human nature more broadly,» noting the author's most essential point is that «one of the things which makes humans special as a species is that we don't limit care to our own children.

The authors recommend that technologists and healthcare robotic companies marketing their wares be more transparent about what their robots can and can't do, and properly educate medical workers on how to use them.

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.»

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.

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

«We're living in what I like to call the «Thank You Economy,» because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old - fashioned way — and do it authentically — are going to have a prayer of competing,» says social media expert and author of the book The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk in a recent Entrepreneur.com column.

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.

«Do not suppress them and become like a balloon that's poking itself in and will eventually burst,» says Weiss, the author of the new book «How We Work.»

Fortune spoke with Jeetendr Sehdev, a celebrity branding authority and author of the new book The Kim Kardashian Principle: Why Shameless Sells (and How to Do It Right), about what the Kardashian clan can teach business about reaching millennial consumers (without having them laugh your ad off the air).

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 question then becomes for the people who add value and try to be useful to authors and readers — and that includes publishers and booksellers — how do you evolve being useful in a digital world?

In this edited excerpt, the authors reveal how to determine if your Google AdWords campaigns are really working and what you can do to improve your results.

If so, you may be doing something wrong, according to Victor Green, author of How to Succeed in Business by Really Trying, and a serial entrepreneur who's launched several successful companies and spent the past 15 years consulting with other entrepreneurs.

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.

Kim Stanley Robinson, «New York 2140» author, talks about what needs to be done to get humans beyond the moon and how financial markets could play into the future of space travel.

Free your mind Don't be afraid to give your product away, Chris Anderson says, you'll figure out how to make money later The secret to success in the digital age is giving people what they want — literally, says Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired and author of the controversial new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price.

It's never been easier to be a self - published author, but with democratization comes issues of trust: How do you know where to start?

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.»

Author and entrepreneur Natalie MacNeil reviewed what everyone achieved and tips on how to keep doing just this as you move toward your next milestone.

The problem is that every example the author gave about how networking doesn't work was an example of really bad networking!

Author of «I Know How She Does It,» Laura Vanderkam, explains the difference between being a night owl and just going to sleep late.

The New York Times bestselling author and radio show host of The Cardone Zone also talks about how he looks and feels younger than he did 20 years ago — because he stopped trying to please everyone and started living his life for himself.

«Like many things pertaining to eBay transactions, it's up to the seller's discretion,» says Greg Holden, author of How to Do Everything With Your eBay Business.

There can be no talent strategy without a compelling business strategy,» says Bill Taylor, an HBR writer, cofounder of Fast Company and the author, most recently, of Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways.

Luckily, there's a little Picasso and Hemmingway in each of us, says Ron Tite, author of Everyone's an Artist: How Creativity Gives You the Edge in Everything You Do.

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.»

«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.

'' [Financial automation] helps to simplify some of the more rudimentary financial tasks that we all have to do,» says Jacquette M. Timmons, a financial behaviorist, author of «Financial Intimacy: How to Create a Healthy Relationship with Your Money and Your Mate» and president and CEO of Sterling Investment Management Inc. «In addition to the simplification, it can also help you to be a little more organized,» she adds.

VERY simple to fix and I'd suggest it's done ASAP,» said Diane Darling, a Boston - based author and speaker who teaches executives how to use LinkedIn.

The study authors noted, however, that these numbers don't reflect the effectiveness of one method over another, but rather how widespread their use was.

The Entrepreneurs» Organization founder recently authored a new book, Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It... and Why the Rest Don't.

Productivity expert and author Laura Vanderkam then weighed in on what they're doing right, what they may be doing wrong, and how you can apply their productivity skills to your life.

In his online course, «Kindle Launch Plan: $ 1400 in 30 Days & an Amazon Bestseller,» Loper teaches his students how to build a foundation on Amazon and then successfully launch a book even if an author doesn't yet have a large audience of fans.

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 run.

Web designer and author Paul Jarvis announced a writing prompt on Medium: «How do you give yourself the space necessary to create?»

Don't miss: «Rich relationships» can be life - changing — here's how to make them, says author who studies millionaires

How I Did It,» bestselling author Tim Ferriss said that nearly all of the 140 successful people he included in his latest book, «Tribe of Mentors,» had some sort of mindfulness or meditation habit.

Chris Guillebeau, author of Born for This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do, has some more unusual suggestions.

Often, small - business owners don't consider how their company can affect their personal credit rating, says Bill Collier, author of How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner... and Still Have a Life (Porchester Press, 200how their company can affect their personal credit rating, says Bill Collier, author of How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner... and Still Have a Life (Porchester Press, 200How to Succeed as a Small Business Owner... and Still Have a Life (Porchester Press, 2006).

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

«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.

While the title implies that this book deals only with how to achieve monetary wealth, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help individuals do or be almost anything they want in this world.

Author Carmine Gallo, who has written on the history of TED Talks, cites scientific research from Dr. Paul King of Texas Christian University as well as insight into how the brain processes new information (and expends energy while doing so).