Not exact matches
A new book from the
author of «The Art
of Nonconformity» asks: What if today was your last day
of working
for someone
other than yourself?
Eggers, the
author of, among
others, A Heartbreaking Work
of Staggering Genius and A Hologram
for the King, is both a beloved Bay Area resident — he founded the McSweeney's publishing empire and the 826 Valencia literacy charity — and an admitted technophobe.
Other qualities to look
for, according to V. Kumar,
author of the book Managing Customers
for Profit, include empathy, consistency and patience.
«
Other people have to be able to speak
for your brand,» says Jonah Berger,
author of Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Simon & Schuster, 2013) and the James G. Campbell Associate Professor
of Marketing at the Wharton School
of the University
of Pennsylvania.
Leader - Chivée is one
of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview
for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas
for 2018, where I asked a number
of my favorite award - winning marketing experts,
authors, and
other thought leaders — as well as some
of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can take advantage
of to get ahead in 2018.
Finnegan is one
of the individuals I was fortunate enough to interview
for a series on the year ahead, Big Ideas
for 2018, in which I asked a number
of my favorite award - winning marketing experts,
authors, and
other thought leaders — as well as some
of Firebrand Group's own digital strategy and branding experts — to recommend one «Big Idea» that companies can leverage to get ahead in 2018.
In
other words, exercising after a long period
of not eating could set us up
for a longer, more intense fat burn, noted Eric Doucet, the lead
author on the study and a professor
of kinesiology at the University
of Ottowa.
Another reason
for the growing firm - to - firm pay gap, according to the
authors of the study, could be that in the modern economy companies have become so specialized and lean that some attract high - skilled workers and
others mostly lower skilled ones.
Storytelling is a powerful learning technique
for these and
other situations because, as Gamestorming's
authors explain, «The reality is that the bulk
of employee knowledge is gained through storytelling.
The
author of this study, Joni Hersch, finds that after controlling
for other factors that determine wages, women employed in jobs with an average probability
of being sexual harassed are paid a compensating differential
of 25 cents per hour relative to women employed in jobs with no risk
of sexual harassment.
«There was a clear pattern in the findings - the more literary fiction
authors that participants recognized, the better they tended to perform on the emotional recognition test, and this association held even after statistically accounting
for the influence
of other factors that might be connected to both emotion skills and reading more literary fiction, such as past educational attainment, gender and age,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog, summing up the results.
Devora Zack,
author of Networking
for People Who Hate Networking, says such connections happen because «people want to help
other people... it's up to you to show them how they can help.»
The
authors cite nearly 20 years» worth
of case studies that show how category kings swiftly take over the market cap in a particular category, leaving scraps
for other competitors in the space.
On the
other hand, Josh Waitzkin,
author of The Art
of Learning, wakes up and immediately writes in his journal
for 30 minutes.
«The rapid and accurate perception
of male sexual orientation may be just another symptom
of a fast and efficient cognitive mechanism
for perceiving the characteristics
of others,» wrote study
authors Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady.
This ever - changing construct represents a way
of communicating
for people who like to inform each
other about their daily activities and share common points
of interest, according to Wikipedia
authors Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, and Susan F. Henssonow.
Because list post
authors have already organized the key points
of information
for their readers, website visitors find this type
of post less intimidating and more easily accessible than
other content formats.
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.
Con artists are motivated both by a desire to be the center
of attention and the power that comes with that ability to manipulate
others, psychologist Maria Konnikova,
author of «The Confidence Game: Why We Fall
for It... Every Time,» explained to me earlier this year.
Today, he is an
author and authority on corporate management — in
other words, an ideal «expert»
for the new Fortune Fantasy Sports Executive League (Anyone can play, and scoring depends, in part, on how closely the player's picks match those
of experts like Stengel.)
Amy Bloom,
author of two New York Times best - sellers and three collections
of short stories, has written
for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue, among many
other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award
for Fiction.
Penelope Trunk, the
author of Brazen Careerist: The New Rules
for Success, argues that one
of the advantages
of the work spouse relationship is its no - strings - attached vibe — it offers the closeness and support
of a marriage, with out any sexual ties, commitment, or
other relationship baggage.
«If you jump in too soon, that can undermine your child's independence, because he'll always be looking to
others for answers,» Myrna Shure, a professor
of psychology at Drexel University and
author of Raising a Thinking Child, cautions on Parents.com.
If you are a banker, or by some
other qualification a member
of what Taibbi dubs here «the grifter class»
for whom «government is a slavish lapdog that the financial companies... use as a tool
for making money» — well, you and the
author are not going to get along.
To
authors, blogs, famous entrepreneurs,
other ninjas you admire
for getting tons
of stuff done?
The
author of a book called The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence has studied the shop
for decades and built a mini-industry
of lectures and workshops that aim to help
other businesses emulate its success (past clients have included TD Bank, BMO and the Cactus Club Cafe chain).
It's because as Brendon Burchard, personal development expert and
author of The Charge says, «The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system
for other people's agendas.»
Beyond payments, its
authors identify
other areas
of potential
for distributed ledgers, noting:
His biography contains elements
of an epic novel: growing up the son
of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance
of payments analyst
for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotam
for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study
of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department;
authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy
of American Empire [1972] to J is
For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotam
For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age
of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many
other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices
of the ancient civilizations
of Mesopotamia.
And you can provide it to them — reliably, effectively, and affordably — with help from Shel Horowitz, multiple - award - winning and best - selling
author of Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green ** Painless Green, and seven
other books, who's been combining the green world and the marketing world
for years.
It has endorsements by Jack Canfield, Seth Godin, the founders
of BNI and GreenBiz.com, the
author of The New Rules
of Green Marketing (among
others), and essays from the
authors of Unstoppable / Unstoppable Women and Diet
for a Small Planet.
The material
for the Insights section reflects the analysis and opinions
of the
authors as
of the stated date and may differ from the opinions
of other portfolio managers, investment teams or platforms at Franklin Templeton Investments.
Endorsed by 22 prominent business and environmental leaders including Chicken Soup co-creator Jack Canfield and innovation blogger /
author Seth Godin, the book also includes guest essays from Cynthia Kersey (
author of Unstoppable and Unstoppable Women) and Frances Moore Lappé (
author of Diet
for a Small Planet and many
other books on food and democracy).
The Role
of Provincial and Reserve School Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,»
author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account
for much better high - school completion rates
for Aboriginal students, compared to
other provinces with large Aboriginal populations.
As a freelance writer, Ken has
authored thousands
of articles
for a wide variety
of newsletters, magazines and
other periodicals, emphasizing a sense
of wit and clarity.
Reading novels can improve empathy and understanding
of social cues, allowing a leader to better work with and understand
others — traits that
author Anne Kreamer persuasively linked to increased organizational effectiveness, and to pay raises and promotions
for the leaders who possessed these qualities.
The book and its
authors, Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, maintain that the free market is best
for all members
of society and can solve problem where
other philosophies have failed.
The
authors are also proponents
of «what goes around comes around» in the link building world — called «preciprocration» by them — advocating that you freely and willingly look
for places to cite work done by
others, link to useful sites, etc., when appropriate and relevant.
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Much
of my dividend growth investing strategy has been influenced by reading
other bloggers and
authors and then taking what I've learned to create my own plan
for investing success.
Nassim Taleb, options trader and
author of The Black Swan (among
other highly - acclaimed works) advocates
for this.
With the features described above, KICKICO creates a synergized place
for different audiences that did not interact before, such as creators
of ICO and cryptocurrency projects and their backers, or creators
of classical crowdfunding campaigns and their backers who have never dealt with cryptocurrencies before,
authors of their projects and experienced army
of advisors, moderators, designers, translators and
other specialists all over the World.
-- Pamela Slim,
author of Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur «Guillebeau has been in the trenches
for years, and in The $ 100 Startup he guides you step - by - step through how he and dozens
of others have turned their passions into profits.
3) The discussion about scaling vs. keeping it small is a very interesting one: I liked that the
author presented real - life cases
for either scenarios
for food
for thought instead
of advocating one or the
other (e.g. presenting a single «formula» as the golden rule that all shall follow)-- I can see how this particular decision can be case sensitive and there really is no «right» answer as long as it works
for the entrepreneur!
The
author looked at an example on the 7th
of December where Bitcoin was trading
for a significant premium on Coinbase than it was on
other exchanges such as Bitfinex
for example.
While this strategy works just fine
for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands
of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed
for just about every
other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors,
authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware
of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.
Authorship
of John — many if not most NT scholars believe that John nor one
of 12 wrote John; James — most agree not
authored by James, and sometime in 2nd century AD; Peter — a mystery — some think that it could have been an early template
for the
other gospels; Luke — a mystery; Mark — finally it seems like we really might have another original
author here — or were he and later Paul just using a very early Peter story?
He is the
author of determinedly «Southern» works such as Why Flannery O» Connor Stayed at Home and Possum and
other Receits
for the Recovery
of «Southern» Being, all
of which are recommended reading.
Ms. Trunk is, among
other things, the
author of the book Brazen Careerist: The New Rules
for Success (honest, I am not making this up!)
In Tax
for the Common Good, theologians and
other authors look at what lessons the Bible may hold about matters such as the purpose
of tax, how governments should apply it, how companies and individuals should pay it and what they should expect
of governments in return.