Sentences with phrase «of book talks»

Presented hundreds of book talks at schools (K - 8), libraries, bookstores, and educational conferences (including MRA, MAME, MEMSPA, OELMA, and MLA).

This is the way the book is designed: the first half of the book talks about the financial crisis, and the second half talks about six different themes that the author thinks are promising:

The first half of the book I talk about, in a sense, the tension between the scientific worldview and a faith worldview.

At the end of the book I talk about what I call progressive patriotism as a logical response to 9/11.

Indulge me in just one more day of book talk, will you?

Or even little things, in one of the books they talked about a spider and one of the dads said: «Remember that spider we had in the bathroom?

For example, in one of the books they talked about a ladder and lots of the dads said: «Oh, remember that time that I used a ladder to paint the house (or for work)?»

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It spends 75 % of the book talking about what does not work, and only 25 % on what he thinks works.

AR: You spend an entire chapter of the book talking about the challenges of building and analyzing back tests.

To Mike's credit, he did follow in the rest of the book talking mostly about cash flow, tax benefits, and great management systems.

Not exact matches

«People I've talked to who have looked at the books — to the extent you can — of the state - owned enterprises and estimated what would be their profit margin if they had to pay market rates for their inputs is that a lot of them would go bankrupt or they would be far less profitable,» Dobson says.

All this being said, there is still obviously such a thing as too much awkwardness, and most of us will continue, despite Dahl's pep talks for the self - conscious, to strive to behave stupidly in public as little as possible She very much understands that impulse and offers many tips she dug up speaking to researchers for the book, including:

«People talked about the demise of physical books as if it was only a matter of time, but even 50 to 100 years from now, print will be a big chunk of our business,» Penguin Random House chief executive Markus Dohle told the Times.

I talked with Renee and asked her to pretend she ran into a business owner at an airport and had five minutes to share some of the top takeaways from the book.

According to the book, The Silent Language of Leaders by Carol Kinsey Gorman, Ph.D., the higher you hold your coffee, the more of a physical barrier you put up between yourself and the person you're talking to.

«This book talks a lot about paradox of our world of hyper digital convenience that doesn't necessarily translate to a seemingly logical replacement of physical things.

«This consuming interest in leadership and how to make it better has spawned a plethora of books, blogs, TED talks, and commentary,» he writes.

There has been plenty of important research on each of these management qualities, such as Mark Murphy's book Hundred Percenters on motivating employees to greatness; or ex-Googler Kim Scott's «radical candour» approach to providing feedback; or the work of Brené Brown, whose landmark 2010 TED talk is called «The Power of Vulnerability.»

In her recent book, «WEconomy,» co-authored with philanthropists Craig and Marc Kielburger, Branson talks about the importance of building a purposeful career that allows you to make money while impacting the world around you.

In his book, Navy Seal Training Guide: Mental Toughness (which by the way goes for $ 790 on Amazon), author Lars Draeger says there four pillars of mental toughness: goal - setting, mental visualization, positive self - talk, and arousal control.

In his book and TED Talk «Start with Why» Simon Sinek challenges us on the importance and power of having a «Why.»

Most authors think the purpose of the introduction is to lay out and explain everything the author will talk about in the book.

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.

So instead of talking about the weather or your commute, says Levy, «I always have a story of something I've been doing recently or a book that I've been reading.»

In July, Amazon tried to make peace with Hachette authors by offering them 100 % of digital book sales for as long as talks with Hachette dragged out — a proposal that Hachette had already turned down in negotiations.

Initiated by Keith's and then Mick's books, and followed by suspenseful talk of a tour, the public's seduction has stretched over a year.

One of the pluses of being knee deep in writing my next book is that I'm getting to talk to a lot of fascinating people.

The book talks a lot about the social dimensions of grief.

In this episode of the The School of Greatness, Michael talks about his new book, which is all about how to steal the show by crafting an incredible speech.

But it takes a lot to move from talking about writing a book to actually doing it — and this is the biggest leap of all.

«Diary of a Wimpy Kid» best - selling author Jeff Kinney talks about the tenth installment in the middle - schooler's book series, brick and mortar book - selling and the global phenomenon of growing up a wimpy kid.

«My brain ended up deciding that instead of trying to avenge my son's life, I wanted to give life as a result,» says Gawdat, who published his book Solve for Happy in January of this year and has given several talks on the subject through a campaign he launched to make 10 million people happy.

Carmine Gallo is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of such books as «Talk Like TED» and «The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs.»

This new release also made Grant's list of upcoming books everyone will soon be talking about.

Author and CEO of HR Capital Source Jac Fitz - enz said in his 2010 book titled The New HR Analytics: Predicting the Economic Value of Your Company's Human Capital Investments, «Talent managers» ability to maximize HR's value is now married to their ability to talk in understandable terms.»

Arriving at the Peace House, a conference building in South Korea's part of the border village of Panmunjom that will host the talks, Kim signed a guest book, writing: «A new history starts now, an age of peace, from the starting point of history.»

Turkle is the author of «Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other» and «Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,» among many other books on human relationships to technology.

Trivago chief executive Rolf Schroemgens talks about the state of the travel booking sector, with specific comment on oil, disruption and competition.

You might not be thinking about what books, articles or speeches to create, but there has probably been a point in time where you have talked yourself out of pursuing something, because you convinced yourself that you lack a certain level of creativity that it takes to get the job done.

We talk about grit all the time here at Spartan Race but Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is the woman who literally wrote the book about it (or at least she will be when Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is published May 3 by Scribner).

It has become reassuringly common to dismiss Trump's hyperbole as the hardball negotiating tactics dished out in his book The Art of the Deal — bluster that will eventually give way to some measure of compromise and an updated NAFTA — but the dire news trickling out from the talks is forcing a harsh rethink, and there's growing reason to fear the worst.

I'm not going to try to answer a book's worth of inquiry in a brief blog post, but here are 3 of the main things that I took away from our talk that — not entirely surprisingly — aligned pretty nicely with some of the central Perspiration Principles.

I used to think about all of the books, articles and speeches that I wanted to create but then eventually talked myself out of it, because I would hit a wall and just tell myself that creativity isn't a strong suit of mine.

There are many good books on this subject, and you owe it to yourself to read at least one of them before you begin talking to angels.

Check out these books, talks and courses, some of which are free, to really understand what makes your customers tick.

The Chinese have talked «a good game for decades» but the Trump administration is likely to want to see concrete action from Beijing rather than just talk, says Leland Miller of China Beige Book International.

Because as much as Gossip the book is about the popularization of back - fence talk and the search for a reason why one of the world's most compelling pastimes is so pleasurable, it's also about admitting that people just can't keep secrets; they don't want to, and we might as well embrace the fact that they'll keep fewer and fewer in the future unless we collectively settle on some new etiquette.

In his new book, angel investor Brian Cohen talks about the importance of getting smart money for your startup.

While relying on a group or talking to an expert can definitely help, I have come to some of my biggest breakthroughs by simply taking some time to sit down and read a book.