Sentences with phrase «how well the author»

No matter how well authors polish a manuscript before submitting them for professional editing, and regardless of how dazzling their prose, a good editor will always polish it further.

The distribution of a book, the reaction by media and tastemakers of the book, and how well an author performs in interviews and in other aspects of the campaign affect it.

We all have our own hunches about how marketable a concept is, how well an author's platform will translate into sales, and how much readers, reviewers, and the press will like the book.

I think Ingram is good if a book has wide appeal, which also relates to how well the author is known.

When I see common errors, like its / it's or flair / flare, it ruins the book for me regardless of how well the author crafted the characters or plot.

While I think we will see a growth in book subscription and crowdfunding models, I'm unconvinced just how well authors are really using them.

Not exact matches

The comedian, actress and author speaks candidly about everything from her most personal experiences to how much her videos make «on a good day.»

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.»

Andrea Syrtash is the author of «He's Just Not Your Type (And That's a Good Thing): How to Find Love Where You Least Expect It» and the founder of Pregnantish.com.

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

In this edited excerpt, the authors explain how to use resumes and employment applications to weed out the job applicants who aren't a good fit for your company.

If you're unsure about what your goal for the book is, read this piece about the mistakes that authors make when framing the results they are looking for, and how to better frame.

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.

In Better by Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong (Riverhead), Tugend — author of The New York Times» ShortCuts business column — explores the disconnect between what we're told about mistakes and how we feel about them.

As Nicholas Boothman, speaker and author of How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less, explained in one of his talks, «when you like someone you see the best in them.

Tom Hopkins, popular sales trainer and best - selling author of How to Master the Art of Selling, sees salespeople gripped with fear.

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

asks marketing guru Seth Godin, author of Purple Cow, the best - selling book about how companies can transform themselves by becoming remarkable.

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.

A discussion with author and blogger Gretchen Rubin on how the small daily choices we make add up to our whole lives, and how we can save energy by making good choices a habit.

«At almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others,» Joshua Hartshorne, an MIT cognitive science researcher and the lead author of a study looking at how intelligence changes as we age, told Business Insider.

«Fear of confrontation is so overwhelming, but if you communicate boldly, more frequently, and honestly... and you're not afraid to work through conflict, you'll likely reduce your stress and be a better worker,» says Lynn Taylor, national workplace expert and author of Tame Your Terrible Office Tyrant; How to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job.

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.

Best - selling author, award - winning financial advisor and former CNBC host Suze Orman gives advice on how to get your finances in order.

The 4 Hour Workweek author and entrepreneur talks about a range of topics, including how you can become as good as possible at a variety of skills without any prior experience.

Nick Bilton, a prominent New York Times columnist and the author of Hatching Twitter, shared the best career advice he ever received in a tweet: «Imagine you in your dream job in 5 years, then work backwards figuring out how you got there.»

Gretchen Rubin, the bestselling author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, offers advice about how to be happy in her popular podcast which she co-hosts with her younger sister, Elizabeth Craft.

According to Liz Wiseman, author of Multipliers: How The Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, there are ways for leaders to avoid coming across as overly optimistic.

«People tend to view entrepreneurial ventures like scaling a mountain,» author of The Inspiration Code: How the Best Leaders Energize People Everyday Kristi Hedges told me.

According to Nataly Kogan, author of Happier Now: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Embrace Everyday Moments, «There are more than 11,000 different studies that have shown that if there is one habit that we can all adopt to improve our physical and emotional well - being, it's the practice of gratitude.»

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.»

Dr. Sean Khozin, one of the authors on the study and a senior medical officer at the FDA, told Business Insider that Flatiron is just one of many companies the agency is working with to check out how alternative sources of data can be used to better inform the agency.

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.»

«If you've got too much text on the screen, you can't compel an audience in any emotional way at all,» says Altman, author of the just released Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Still Suck & How You Can Make Them Even Better.

It's how you use them that may cost you,»» 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.

Find out what quantitative information they have to back up their asking price, says Richard Parker, author of the series, How to Buy a Good Business at a Great Price (Diomo Corporation, 2001 - 2012).

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.

That's the contention of Carson Tate, author of Work Simply, who claims to have pinned down four distinct productivity styles along with ideas on how each type of worker can best contribute to his or her team.

Michaels is also the best - selling author of Master Your Metabolism, Unlimited: How to Build an Exceptional Life, and Slim for Life: My Insider Secrets to Simple, Fast, and Lasting Weight Loss.

According to 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, «Your ability to articulate your thoughts and ideas will have a direct correlation to how well you garner cooperation and persuade others to support your efforts and projects.&raqHow to Manage Childish Boss Behavior and Thrive in Your Job, «Your ability to articulate your thoughts and ideas will have a direct correlation to how well you garner cooperation and persuade others to support your efforts and projects.&raqhow well you garner cooperation and persuade others to support your efforts and projects.»

Daymond John, «Shark Tank» investor and the author of upcoming book, «Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life,» is an expert at how to look good.

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

Christine Carter, a fellow at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center which studies positive psychology and the author of The Sweet Spot: How to Find Your Groove at Home and Work.

Being aware of how your brain works can help you make better decisions as an entrepreneur, contend the authors of a new book, Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012).

Bernard Marr, a global enterprise performance expert and a best - selling business author, writes in a LinkedIn post that the reason some interviewers like to ask about weaknesses is to gain insight into how self - aware you are.

«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.

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).

Explaining their findings in Harvard Business Review, the study's authors, Harvard's Robert Huckman and Bradley Staats of the University of North Carolina, pointed to the time it takes new team members to learn how to communicate with one another and determine who is the best authority in different areas.

Amanda is a best - selling author of «Make Money Your Honey», a book that helps freelancers and business owners understand their relationship with money and how to make it more productive.