Sentences with phrase «to book»

Schultz talks affectionately about his father in his book, «Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time,» saying that Fred was an honest man who worked hard, played ball with his kids on the weekend and loved the Yankees.

Radical Candor: Be a Kick - Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity: There were «lots of recs for this book,» Dickerson notes.

Oscar's Concierge team was accessed by 46 % of Oscar members, its telemedicine service was used by 25 % of customers, and the Care Router service — a yellow pages for finding physicians and booking appointments — was accessed by 45 % of its members.

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?

Earlier this month, Vanity Fair published a bombshell excerpt from Emily Chang's new book Brotopia describing the allegedly rowdy sexual escapades of the tech elite.

According to Laura Vanderkam's book «What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast,» Burns also has a personal training session twice a week at 6 a.m.

In his book No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, business coach and consultant Dan Kennedy reveals the steps behind making the most of your frantic, time - pressured days so you can turn time into money.

Dinosaur thriller Jurassic World overwhelmingly won the weekend box office, but it's global gross is one for the record books.

It's be time to assess your spending and look beyond the books to identify inefficiencies and places your business could be losing money.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway raised its per - share book value 14.4 % in 2012, less than the S&P 500's 16 % total return.

But I've never written a book that has become such an enormous hit that I suddenly have $ 15 million in the bank.

As Claire Fallon, the Huffington Post's books and culture writer, points out, there are plenty of other reasons why ebooks may never catch on with a larger crowd.

A: I used a lot of techniques in the publishing process of the book to reiterate and test the content, the subtitle, the cover — you name it.

Amazon's dominant position in both book publishing and book selling means that it would be incredibly dangerous for the company to start picking and choosing, on moral grounds, which authors it chooses to work with.

The book recognizes that sometimes, successful agreements require that the winner recognizes that he or she must allow the loser to go home with something.

This book is packed with incredible management insights that all entrepreneurs can benefit from.»

So much so, that she was able to snag a book deal and start making lots of money off of her 5 - year - old blog, Momma's Gone City.

Here are quotes from more than two dozen executives who name their favorite book and explain why it's worth your attention.

To promote the book, she started a blog, called Footnoted.org, where she wrote about corporate shenanigans and other news investors could use buried in the — you guessed it — SEC documents» fine print.

Simply put, physical books offer a tactile experience that most other forms of media don't.

Existing wedding - related companies have already started consolidating various aspects of the planning experience: The Knot's app includes 300,000 vendors, and users can easily assess, contact, and book them from within it.

As a result, the firm hasn't seen much change in the overall size of its loan book, despite overall growth in the non-bank residential mortgage industry.

This is a must - read book for entrepreneurs because it is written in a no - nonsense, straight talk style by an entrepreneur who shares his inside perspective on what it takes to start a business.

It was the first business book I read and it introduced me to the idea of being an entrepreneur.

«With our daughters, I never raised them how I was raised [with the assumption they'd join the family business,]» says Oddo, who has written a book on the principles of parenting.

In 2012, Apple held an event in New York City to talk about education, where it unveiled its iBooks 2 platform, its tool for making and publishing books online, but even that event was all about the iPad.

Amazon (amzn) revamped its European tax practices in 2015 so that it can book sales and pay taxes in Britain, Germany, Spain, and Italy instead of channeling all sales through Luxembourg where it is headquartered, a move which may raise its tax bill.

Did Eco actually read all those books?

But Melissa Dahl, a self - confessed lifelong champion of awkward moments and author of a new book on the topic titled Cringeworthy, would like you to suggest you reconsider your quest to eliminate awkwardness from your life.

Brad Stone describes an early version of Amazon's flywheel in The Everything Store (one of my best books of 2013):

The books also deal with the chasm between rich and poor and the idea of socialism as a solution to capitalism's ills.

David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR, with now three editions of updated rules of marketing speaks about his newest version of his best - selling book.

He is former director of research for the National Commission on Space and co-author of Buzz Aldrin's new book, «Mission to Mars - My Vision for Space Exploration,» published by National Geographic.

And fear not frugal adventurers: the cost to book your own space odyssey, depending on which option you choose, is slowly descending to the earth's atmosphere.

Bringing it back to books: We have to value books as a valuable and essential cultural medium that deserves respect.

It was one of the first books Sall picked up, and it made a significant impact on him.

I worked with [the young Canadian actor] Lyriq Bent on Book of Negroes.

Unlike some online searches that don't identify the provider, the secret fares provide all details about the flight such as the airline, departure time and arrival time before booking.

In his book The Demon - Haunted World, the renowned astrophysicist helpfully suggested questions to ask to detect baloney, science writer Michael Shermer points out in the extremely useful video below (hat tip to Jason Kottke for the pointer).

The man who planned and commanded the raid, Admiral William McRaven, is a veteran leader who served at every level of the SEALs and who literally wrote the book on special operations.

In addition to her two memoirs, Bush also authored two books while she was first lady, both written from the perspective of her dogs.

«The regimen I follow is a mix of Eastern and Western philosophies,» Brady writes in the book.

The book, written by Obama's University of Chicago brethren Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, discusses the importance of manipulating defaults toward long - term savings for employees.

You go out and buy books, lots of them.

At the lowest levels, the campaign offered backers exclusive access to Ries's new book, «The Leader's Guide,» as well as a copy of Riese's next non-exclusive book.

Finally, the book comes full circle, reminding us that the power to achieve our dreams is within us and was within us from the beginning.

Whether the salacious details that Chang outlines in her book are true or they're a gross mischaracterization of what took place, this event will surely make firms think twice about their out - of - office gatherings in the future.

No editor is going to acquire a book like that because it's never going to make money.

«This book helped me understand that doing your best work and being your most focused takes practice and training — and not necessarily the kind of practice you might imagine.

The book, which focuses on how to bridge the chasms that occur in the transition from a market solely for innovators and early adopters to one that reaches a mainstream audience, proved to be my personal manual for building disruptive companies.