Sentences with phrase «of books in my work»

The decision to imitate the structure of a book in her work reflects Quaytman's belief that images and their meanings are inherently contingent.

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The power of platforms is explained in a new book, Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You, by Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Choudary.

In addition to working full - time as a financial analyst, Sall also honed his personal finance knowledge with the help of a few useful books.

The business world can be brutal I don't care what you learned in school, you'll come across so many situations you can't learn in a text book written in 1985 (Not a fan of college, can you tell:)-RRB- Be prepared to work 7 days a week.

Find out why Guy Kawasaki calls the books «A transformational work in the history of customer service.»

Here is Gates's summary of this entertaining book: «The brain behind XKCD explains various subjects — from how smartphones work to what the U.S. Constitution says — using only the 1,000 most common words in the English language and blueprint - style diagrams.»

She is arguably the most in - demand career and internship expert and the author of two books; All Work No Pay and Welcome to the Real World.

A thought - provoking post on Business Insider gathers evidence from Newport's book and elsewhere that the Microsoft founder was — in his youth at least — a true master of deep work.

Fortune's annual list of «Best Companies to Work For» is certainly not a definitive assessment of a company's workforce, but it's significant enough that Hsieh mentioned Zappos» rise up its ranks in the second edition of his book.

In her book, Put Your Intuition to Work, intuition expert Lynn Robinson explains that some of the greatest business leaders rely on their intuition to make important decisions.

In their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionIn their new book, Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisionin Life and Work, brothers and academics Chip (of Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Dan Heath (of Duke) explore how to eliminate biases and improve the quality of our decisions.

«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.»

I shared in my book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation at Work, five ways that people could show others they're valued — through words of affirmation, acts of service, quality time, tangible gifts and physical touch.

By 8:30 a.m. (the time I usually ended up rolling out of bed), I had read several chapters of a good business book, listened to part of a podcast, spent time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy» to work on for years.

Duff chronicled the spectacular rise and fall of his career on Wall Street in the book, «The Buy Side,» and is currently working on his second book, a Wall Street novel.

That's how star companies like Amazon, Apple, and Lego consistently leap ahead of competitors, say strategy experts Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi in their new book, Strategy That Works.

In his book «High Output Management,» Andy Grove, founder of Intel, advocates that «a manager should use his calendar as a «production» planning tool, taking a firm initiative to schedule work that is not time - critical.»

In his new book Leading the Life You Want, Wharton School professor Stew Friedman identifies four key spheres of life: family, work, friends and community and health (mental and spiritual).

In his new book, Run Your Business, Don't Let It Run You (Berrett - Koehler Publishers Inc., 2013), Mathile explains the importance of implementing a professional management system in your business, so that you can stop working those 16 - hour dayIn his new book, Run Your Business, Don't Let It Run You (Berrett - Koehler Publishers Inc., 2013), Mathile explains the importance of implementing a professional management system in your business, so that you can stop working those 16 - hour dayin your business, so that you can stop working those 16 - hour days.

Her work at the firm earned Bell a «special mention» in the acknowledgements section of O'Leary's first book, Cold Hard Truth, published in 2011.

From Adam Markel's Pivot, which will help anyone in transition create a new roadmap for success, to Jon Acuff's Do Over, a helpful guide in dissecting relationships, skills, character and work and preparing them for change, there's no shortage of helpful books that will make your reinvention smoother.

The crux of the book is that in work (as well in life) we are motivated by autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Taking all the above books into account, Newport, a PhD professor at Georgetown, synthesizes the concept of focus in Deep Work.

Copyright applies to creative works such as books and movies (and this column), but also to software, which at its core is another form of writing, albeit in code.

In my years as an entrepreneur I've made enough mistakes to fill a book (which I'm working on), but here are five of the larger ones:

How to Fix the Future is a truly important book and the most significant work so far in an emerging body of literature — others of note are Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants and Zeynep Tufekci's Twitter and Tear Gas — in which technology's smartest thinkers are raising alarm bells about the state of the Internet, and laying groundwork for how to fix it.

«This beautiful book shatters the myth of the extroverted ideal and highlights the essential role of introverts in the world of work.

When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.

As Alexandra Troy, founder and CEO of Culinary Architect Catering, explains in my book The Good Ones, a brave employee we'll call Sarah revealed that another employee, Mabel, was bad - mouthing Alexandra behind her back and not paying attention to details at work.

They are in constant education mode, reading and buying books, magazines, journals and self - help information and taking advantage of other resources they believe will improve their understanding of themselves, their work with others and their business and marketing skills.

In researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivitIn researching for his upcoming book on fulfilling work, Schulich's Burke found that Johnson & Johnson saw at least a $ 4 return on every dollar it spent on employee wellness initiatives in terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivitin terms of lower health - care costs, less absenteeism and higher productivity.

From all the stories in this book, that's the biggest insight and the true meaning of «work it.»

He made $ 1,500 during the launch of his book, «Profit Hacking,» and closed more than $ 17,000 in client work.

His book, released in January, promises to get you moving like you used to by spending just 10 minutes a day working through a sequence of movements based on a combination of stretches and gymnastics.

But Shenk's book, Powers of Two: Finding the Essence in Innovation in Creative Pairs, suggests that managers and leaders should consider assigning more work in pairs.

What most people forget, however, is that Newton worked on his ideas about gravity for nearly twenty years until, in 1687, he published his groundbreaking book, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.

In his best - selling book «Outliers,» which investigates the psychology of success, Malcolm Gladwell makes a powerful point about what helps people commit to and enjoy their work.

The book is a memoir about his improbable journey from his working - class, «hillbilly» roots in Appalachia to the elite corridors of one of the top law schools in the U.S., and then the world of venture capital.

Bestselling author Ken Blanchard mentioned in his book, «Heart of a Leader», that each person has different motivations for the work they do or to stay in a job they are in.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks suggests a title of particular interest to anyone working in tech (and parents): «This alarming book is about the generation born after 1995 who've grown up with cell phones, Instagram, and the rest.

It is the full text of an article excerpted in Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966 - 2012, a Fortune Magazine book,...

Before coming to Business Insider as assistant managing editor, Lyndsay worked for several years in book publishing, most recently in the literary department of ICM Partners.

In her latest book, Women Who Work, she revealed that she had initially resisted making her family life public, but gave in after she understood that photos of them would be available to the world whether she wanted them to be or noIn her latest book, Women Who Work, she revealed that she had initially resisted making her family life public, but gave in after she understood that photos of them would be available to the world whether she wanted them to be or noin after she understood that photos of them would be available to the world whether she wanted them to be or not:

«The last lawyer working on it does now know what the first one worked out», the author, and friend of Ingvar Kamprad, Bertil Torekull wrote in his book «Historien om IKEA», first published in 1998.

It's in applying the lessons and learnings from the book to your own life and circumstances — and then doing the hard work of taking responsibility for, and true ownership of, your stories — where the change starts and the results begin to show.

In his first book Not Taught, he discusses how the internet, social media and access to information have changed the definition of work forever.

McGraw says that he keeps this in mind now with all of his work, whether it's a book he's writing, an answer he gives in an interview, or an episode he does.

The Power of Nice describes an exercise from the authors» seminars, in which attendees are paired off, each playing either the «agent» or the «publisher» in working out a book deal.

By booking her workout classes in advance, Dunnahoo - Kirsch is able to combine the commitment she makes with the social pressure from friends she works out with, into a powerful accountability hack for keeping her version of work - life balance in line.

A study conducted at Stanford and University of Pennsylvania revealed that when books penned by unknown writers were reviewed in the New York Times, sales of their work increased by a third, even if the reviews were negative.