The Tao of Twitter: Changing your life and business 140 characters at a time Review

The Tao of Twitter: Changing your life and business 140 characters at a time
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The Tao of Twitter is a lively, interesting and easy read. Full of good stories and great tips. Helpful for people who are just starting out, have been tweeting awhile and people like me who tried it, but quit because it seemed too complicated. The book put the fun and ease back into the journey.

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It's time to take the mystery out of Twitter. Twitter may be the most powerful business and personal networking platform ever created but it remains a frustrating, strange world for most people.The Tao of Twitter is a path, a majestic random synergy with the potential to change your business and your life forever -- if you know the way!This is a book designed for busy people who can't spend hours in experimentation and research trying to find success. In one hour you will know enough strategies, tactics, and time-savers to create an effective presence on Twitter that will result in meaningful and measurable benefits.Through colorful examples and easy-to-follow, non-technical language, college educator and renowned marketing expert Mark Schaefer teaches you:> Secrets to building influence on Twitter> The formula behind every Twitter success> Applying Twitter for competititve advantage> A daily Twitter regimen> Specific business and personal benefits> 15 Ways to attract targeted followers... plus hundreds of fresh ideas that will make Twitter fun and profitable. Jump-start your journey toward social media success by learning the Tao of Twitter!

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Leading a Business in Anxious Times Review

Leading a Business in Anxious Times
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I have just finished reading this book over the course of the past month and found it to be very thought-provoking and useful. I work in an academic setting, and even though the book focuses on business, I found the concepts to be easily applied to academia. The book outlines a theory of human systems that helps to understand how people interact in ways that are helpful and not-so-helpful. Theoretical information is illustrated with brief and more extended case examples to bring the material to real life. There are questions posed at the end of sections to help the reader apply the information to his/her own workplace. The questions are helpful if you take the time to carefully consider them. The book does not suggest easy or quick solutions to problems, but provides a foundation for thinking about problems in a different way that allows the reader to come up with his/her own solutions. I would recommend this book to anyone who works in any organization as an executive, administrator, employee, or volunteer.

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The McGraw-Hill Guide to Starting Your Own Business : A Step-By-Step Blueprint for the First-Time Entrepreneur Review

The McGraw-Hill Guide to Starting Your Own Business : A Step-By-Step Blueprint for the First-Time Entrepreneur
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This is the best book on starting business that I've come across. A lot of practical tips on various strategies (marketing, pricing, promoting etc.). However, it is probably more about running a new business rather than steps in opening one. Worth reading thus.
Phuong , MA in Economics student @ U of Toronto.

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Successful Time Management For Dummies Review

Successful Time Management For Dummies
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First things first, as a real estate broker and team leader who owns almost all of Dirk Zeller's books, I will admit to being a bit biased in his favor. This prolific author simply writes cleanly and clearly, in a language that we can all easily understand. His latest book is one of his best and is a MUST READ for anyone who has ever felt the pain of "too little time" in their business or personal life. I have found this book to be life changing and have been surprised at how easy many of the concepts are to implement in my daily routine. As Dirk notes early on, Dummy books do not have to be read front to back; instead, you can do what I did and start with areas that hold the most interest for you. In my case, this meant going right to Chapter 5, "Setting Up and Maintaining a Productive Workspace." Using the simple steps in this chapter I got my massive desk cleaned up, moved tons of "to do" items into Outlook tasks, refined my workflow with my wife (the vice president of the company :o) and otherwise got my space turned into a much more productive and sharp looking workplace. Next stop for me was Chapter 10, "Overcoming Procrastination, a Notorious Time Thief." More organizational goodness ensued... I bought this book for all the obvious reasons but mostly because I knew that many of the holes in my business and personal life are centered on time or the lack thereof. If (like me) you have become honest enough to admit you could improve your time management, this book is FOR YOU. I think it would be especially good for business readers but others can still benefit from its practical advice and suggestions. Lastly, if you are in any way involved in real estate, you owe it to yourself to check out Dirk Zeller's many other fine books; his work is easily on par with Gary Keller, Stephen Covey and Michael Gerber (to name a few). This book is amazing, it really is, check it out...

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Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos Review

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Most reviews I write, which aren't many, tend to be in enthusiastic support of an item, simply because I just don't take the time to write something unless I REALLY feel that it's a great item. (Once in a while I'll take time to write a negative review but since there's already enough negativity to go around, I try to avoid it!).
Well, this review is no different - this is an excellent tool - not a book, not a "read", etc. It's a tool that I have personally used to get "unstuck" from the habit of continuous email checking, internet ADHD sydrome, pausing to play scrabble on my iPhone every 5 minutes, you name it! With short, easy to digest chapters, I was able to return to a place of calm, focusing on a single item until it's completed, then move on to the next one with ease. Yes, I still take a pause every once in a while to do some of those old activities, but they're a choice and not a distraction and it feels good to know that I accomplished my necessary items first, the ones that propel me toward my goals.
So, simply put, this is an enthusiastic review of a great tool - one that you should find as useful as I did if you'll take its advice seriously and put it into action.

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Time Warrior is a revolutionary, non-linear approach for dealing with time, as bold as it is fresh and new. What is non-linear time management?Non-linear time management is a commitment to action in the present moment. It's looking at a task and choosing NOW or 'not now." If it's not now, it's got to be NEVER, or placed in a time capsule that has a spot on the calendar and therefore out of the mind.The mind must remain clear and empty of all future considerations.In non-linear time management there is no line extending from my mind into the future. No tapeworm of unfinished business coming out of my body.Non-linear time management is best expressed by Elvis Presley when he sings, 'It's now or never, come hold me tight."The old-fashioned time management programs had a huge, burdensome focus on the future. The line of tasks stretched out forever into the future. It was fear-based and it was overwhelming to have so much of a future to carry around with you.It resulted in massive, pathological procrastination. Everything got put off in the name of perfectionism. Nothing was bold or reckless anymore. Therefore there wasn't much astonishing success happening for the world-weary practitioner.But when Chandler teaches people to go non-linear, a strange thing happens. New life and energy come in. When they open their emails they don't get to save them for later. They have to deal with them if they open them. Like little attackers in a computer game, there is no longer anywhere to hide. Life becomes a great game and everything is handled right now on the spot.All fear comes from picturing the future. Putting things off increases that fear. Soon we are nothing but heavy minds weighing down on weary brains. Too much future will do that.Only a warrior's approach will solve this. A warrior takes his sword to the future. A warrior also takes his sword to all circumstances that don't allow him to fully focus.Chandler is a coach by profession, and when he works with a client who is 'overwhelmed" with too much to do and not enough time to do it he will often ask them to give him an example of one of the things they are burdened by every time they think about it. The client will give him an example and they will do that thing right now. The client is amazed. The only thing missing in this client's life was a bias for action.Most people think too much. Then they compound that problem by studying the feelings that come up for them as a result of that thinking.All this time that they spend thinking and feeling they could have been taking action. In a non-linear way. Linear time starts with your birth and ends (at the end of the line) with your death. Along that long linear line it's just one damn thing after another. Then the lights go out. What was the point?Non-linear time management stops all that weary nonsensical treading on the road to one's destiny.Rather than inching along horizontally you must simply rise up. Your life can now become vertical. Now you don't postpone challenges, you rise to them. You become a warrior. And it works.How, exactly, does it work? This book will show you exactly how it works.

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The New York Times Reader: Business & Economics (TimesCollege Series) (TimesCollege from CQ Press) Review

The New York Times Reader: Business and Economics (TimesCollege Series) (TimesCollege from CQ Press)
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This book is a great introduction to business writing, and served as a nice refresher for me. Prof. Mark Tatge, a longtime investigative reporter, chose some of The New York Times' best business stories of recent years -- which themselves teach you a lot about the powerful corporate world -- and wove them with his own clear-headed insights about how business journalism works.
His interviews with reporters and columnists are the cherry on top. I especially liked Joe Nocera's comment that business captured his imagination in a way that politics never did.
The result is an important guide to writing lively, succinct stories about the people and companies that drive our economy. Along the way, you learn about the dark side of corporate mergers from Gretchen Morgenson, poison in our cough syrup from Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker, and not to worry so much about outsourcing from Eduardo Porter.

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Business in Action with Real Time Updates (4th Edition) Review

Business in Action with Real Time Updates (4th Edition)
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Business in Action is an overview of the many areas of business. This book is highly illustrated, with lots of pictures, graphs, and internet connections. Definitions are listed as margin notes in Blue to highlight the text on that subject. The pace of the book is quick with a lot of information compressed into a few paragraphs, with the occasional commentary. Longer essays are in the back of each chapter, with more websites then you could vist in a day.

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KEY BENEFIT: Business in Action, 4/e is an introduction to business that provides readers with a wealth of the most current information available, allowing them to experience firsthand a variety of highly involving information that no other book on the market can match. Numerous cases and examples simplify the material, encourage active reading, and provide a life-long useful reference source. KEY TOPICS: Topics include: the global economy, starting and organizing a small business, management issues, human resources and employee relations, marketing strategies, and financial information and resources.MARKET: An excellent resource for managers, corporate trainers, and those interesting in owning and operating small to medium businesses; this book is also a must-read for people just entering the corporate job market.

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