Sentences with phrase «many books about»

I recommend this book because I hate the typical «entrepreneur» books about someone building a business.

The company was booking about $ 170,000 a month in sales.

«Great book about resilience and finding peace in the midst of adversity.

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

The couple had 12 children, two of whom wrote a book about their family's life called «Cheaper by the Dozen.»

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

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.

But unless you are really knowledgeable and already an expert about this subject, and you have an angle that has never been explored, it will be very hard to convince people that your book about happiness — as opposed to the 70 already out there — is the one to read.

A book about how to set up a pop - up retail experience has a clear audience.

On April 27th, he is launching a campaign for Synergist to raise money for the company using their own platform, an industry - first for a socially driven company.Jared has also worked for 2 Silicon Valley start - ups and is currently writing a book about other inspiring young entrepreneurs and innovators.

However the events are organized, Doug Wead, who worked for President George H.W. Bush and wrote a book about presidents» children, said the Trumps are experts at event planning.

You could go to any library and find bookshelves full of books about curing procrastination.

Biderman was a relentless publicity hound, publishing a book about marriage, posing for unfortunate pictures, and saying many things he probably wishes he hadn't, such as: «We have done a really great job of making sure our data is kept secret.»

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

A book about the prince written by US author Sally Bedell Smith claims that when travelling to America in first class — naturally to reduce his carbon footprint — he reportedly complained that the upper class deck was «incredibly uncomfortable.»

There are many classic books about writing effective copy, and «How to win friends and influence people» should be required reading for anyone who wants to improve their marketing chops.

Like so many books about innovation and the exciting world of tomorrow's business, it's a little buzzwordy and breathless, which can get stale quickly — and when you're talking about the future, stale is the last thing you want to be.

She also wrote a book about the creation of Monopoly.

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.

The Alchemist is one of the greatest books about the entrepreneurial journey I have ever read.

That's one interesting theory presented in a new book about Snapchat — «How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story» — that came out this week from former TechCrunch writer Billy Gallagher.

The best - selling book about baseball stats is a must - read for anyone interested in corporate ethical performance.

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

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

He started doing lots of LSD and reading lots of books about spirituality.

In that first year at Reed, Jobs also read «Diet for a Small Planet,» a book about protein - rich vegetarianism that went on to sell three million copies.

Brenda Bryan, a former Seattle yoga and doga instructor, wrote one of the best - known books about doga: Barking Buddha: Simple Soul Stretches for Yogi and Dogi.

It's important to get guidance from someone who's actually been there and done that instead of someone who's only read books about the topics you need help with.

Nadella, Microsoft's third - ever CEO, has announced a new book about Microsoft's future, called «Hit Refresh.»

The site has since swelled to 5 million shoppers and was projected to book about $ 48 million in yearly revenue in 2014.

Looking back to the early days of my first startup attempt, I think something that kept me going was that I continually read books about startups and entrepreneurs and watched as many interviews of founders as I could find.

Rhett Power is head coach at Power Coaching and Consulting and the author of The Entrepreneur's Book of Actions, a new book about daily exercises for becoming wealthier, smarter, and more successful.

It shares that title with Steven Hahn's 2004 Pulitzer Prize - winning book about black political power.

Or as Rabidoux, who's writing a book about our housing obsession, puts it, «the majority of new homeowners are still renters; they've just gone from renting space to renting money.»

And now she has a new book about achieving reality stardom, called «Me On TV: The First Ever Kick - Ass Guide To Get You On Any Reality Show.»

But what if, for some reason, you were only allowed to read nine books about managing people?

What did surprise me is that Moneyball isn't really a book about baseball.

The profits from both of Bush's books about her dogs, «C. Fred's Story» (1984) and «Millie's Book» (1990), were donated to literacy charities.

«I love books about people coming into their vocations, and this haunting memoir by musician Patti Smith brilliantly evokes a time and place in New York City, as she and Robert Mapplethorpe began to build artistic lives for themselves,» says Rubin of this one.

Suddenly, a book about pigs taking over a farm begins to serve as a cautionary tale on how political dogma can be turned into malleable propaganda.

Note: Bill Gates wrote in his blog, gatesnotes, that Warren Buffett not only recommended this as his favorite book about business, but actually sent Gates his own personal copy to read.

Going gluten - free has become something of a fad in recent years, with cookery books about «clean eating,» and myths being spread that wheat is bad for digestion.

And, as Canadian writer Nina Munk details in The Idealist, her new book about the economist, he refused to take any blame when things went wrong.

There are quite a few people out there who've said that A.I. is an existential threat: Stephen Hawking, astronomer Royal Martin Rees, who has written a book about it, and they share a common thread, in that: they don't work in A.I. themselves.

I mention how to in this episode but to name a few you can write a book about the topic you love, guest post on other sites, speak at trade shows, or write for magazines.

(Disclosure: I wrote a book about West Point's class of 2002, in which Bush's speech plays an important role.)

Imagine a client's reaction to receiving a book about effective DIY marketing options, especially coming from a marketing firm!

For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Glass was ousted from Twitter before it turned into a cultural phenomenon and didn't even get much company stock, according to a new book about Twitter's history.

Founder Adam Robinson is passionate about recruiting; not only does he have over 20 years experience in the industry, he has written a book about the power of predictive hiring.

«The books that we can expect to see — rather than books about strategy and big things like vision or corporate culture — will be clearly and explicitly aimed at the individual.