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Make A REAL LIVING as a Freelance Writer
by Jenna GlatzerStep-by-step instructions on how writers can earn top dollar writing for magazines are provided in this book. Secrets are revealed about what the high-paying magazines really want, how to build relationships with editors, how to ascertain which sections of a magazine are open to freelancers, what kinds of stories are in demand, what to do if a deadbeat publisher doesn't pay up, how to market reprints, and how to become an expert in one's chosen writing field. Basic terms like query, clips, and source sheet are defined for beginning writers, and tips on everything from coming up with an idea to pitching a syndicated column are also included. Writers learn about the little-known sources top freelancers use to find new stories and experts. In addition, they learn how to get their first paying assignments even if they have no prior clips, how to negotiate for better pay, how to find high-paying magazines that aren't swamped with queries, and how to worm their way into editors' inboxes even if their e-mail addresses aren't publicized.
Make Anything Happen: A Creative Guide to Vision Boards, Goal Setting, and Achieving the Life of Your Dreams
by Carrie LindseyEveryone wants to accomplish their goals and live the life of which they dream. But in today’s busy age, how do we make that happen? This interactive book helps readers live an intentional life by determining their priorities and tapping into their creativity to create beautiful and functional vision boards and manageable action plans to achieve their goals. Through guided worksheets, vision board templates and samples, and planning pages, author Carrie Lindsey inspires readers to get clear on what they really want and then make it happen. Getting your life in order has never been so much fun! What would happen if you set aside a little time to write down what makes you excited and what drags you down? What if you took it a step further and set specific goals for living your best life? What if that process could be creative, exciting, and lead to actual change?Use the guided worksheets to establish your priorities Create vision boards that make your goals concrete and attainable Discover strategies to manifest the life of your dreams Change is hard, but it’s worth it. And with this book, it’s also a heck of a lot of fun. Readers also have access to a private Facebook group full of members who are working towards living their dreams.
Make Better Decisions More Often: 30 Minute Reads
by Nicholas BateYou're half an hour away from never making a bad decision again! Why not use your next spare half an hour to skill-up? Each of these short e-books can be read in just 30 minutes. Addressing those painful work problems, and giving practical tools and expert advice to overcome them, the 30 Minute Reads series will make your work-life more productive, less painful and more successful!Decision making not your strong suit? Fed up of thinking 'I should have chosen the other candidate/strategy/sandwich'? This succinct, practical guide will teach you how to properly weigh up all the information and make well thought out decisions more quickly.Also available in a digital bundle with 4 other titles as part of 30 Minute Reads: The business skills collection.Make Better Decisions More Often will help you:Identify the problem and what isn't workingDiscover the 10 Big StrategiesPut in place your super-structured, super-easy, 5-day count-down plan to no more pain.
Make Better Strategic Decisions: How to Develop Robust Decision-making to Avoid Organisational Disasters
by Jeremy N. WhiteEvery day we hear of serious errors of judgement that result in organisational disaster. Why do seemingly successful businesses, NGOs, or even political parties fall prey to irrevocable governance breakdowns or, worse still, criminal malpractice? By prompting readers to think deeply about strategic decision-making, human behaviour, and cognitive biases, this book offers a disciplined, objective, and thoughtful approach to making better decisions. Every strategic problem is fundamentally a journey into the unknown, which involves a unique combination of duration, scale, external and internal dynamics, and personal motivations. Rarely is a strategic decision solved by saying, ‘If a situation is A, then the solution is B.’ The book explores how to develop a strong foundation for problem resolving – rather than simplistic problem-solving – by strengthening competence so that decisions are made wisely. The case of Carillion plc, the second-largest construction group in the United Kingdom that went bankrupt in January 2018, is used to explore how a large and profitable company collapsed so dramatically when it was run by an experienced board and advised by three of the Big Four accounting firms. Professor Jeremy N. White presents a clear strategic toolkit for better strategic decision-making. This book will appeal to senior managers who are interested in techniques for making better strategic decisions. The lessons from the failure of Carillion plc are applicable to corporate leaders in addition to politicians and those who run not-for-profit organisations.
Make Capitalism History: A Practical Framework for Utopia and the Transformation of Society
by Stefan Meretz Simon SutterlüttiThis open access book presents an alternative to capitalism and state socialism through the modelling of a post-market and post-state utopia based on an upscaling of the commons, feminist political economy and democratic and council-based planning approaches. It discusses the left’s need to explore non-capitalist modes of production, the inability of green or socialist market economies to produce real social and ecological change, and the need to look beyond traditional ideas of reform and revolution. The book discusses how a socio-economic organisation beyond money, wage labour, patriarchal division of work and centralised state planning may look like. It develops an approach to societal transformation based on seed forms of commons practices and social movements. This book will be relevant to activists, students and researchers interested in fundamental social change, political economy and feminist and Marxist economics.This is an open access book.
Make Change Stick: Toward Successful Large-Scale Change
by John P. Kotter Dan S. CohenKeeping change in place requires the creation of a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture. A supportive culture provides roots for the new ways of operating. This chapter describes how to use the power of culture to help make a transformation stick.
Make Change Work
by Randy PenningtonRemain competitive, inspire innovation, and ensure successConstantly adapting, improving, and changing is more important than ever for companies to remain competitive in today's marketplace. Make Change Work presents real solutions to thriving in a world of constant change. This book educates managers and leaders on how to lead change, with strategies for creating urgency, building support, and ensuring successful change. Get the guidance you need to be bold in the face of change, and learn how to make your company faster, better, cheaper, and friendlier--by simply listening to your customers Advises leaders on how to design and implement a strategy that allows you to successfully lead change and deliver meaningful business resultsAuthor Randy Pennington is a 20-year business performance veteran, author, and expert in helping organizations build a culture focused on resultsLearn how to establish a clear and purposeful goal, inspire a culture relentlessly focused on customers, and create an environment where your talented team wants to Make Change Work.
Make Change Work for You
by Scott SteinbergFinding the courage to embrace change and take chances is the only way to succeed. Business, culture, and competitive landscapes have fundamentally changed, but basic principles and best practices for succeeding and future-proofing both yourself and your organization haven't. With a mix of compelling stories, research from the social sciences and psychology, and real-world insights, Make Change Work for You shows how to reignite your career, rekindle creativity, and fearlessly innovate your way to success by providing the tools needed to master uncertainty and conquer every challenge in life or business. Make Change Work for You opens with a comprehensive overview of the most common factors that lead to self-defeating behaviors, including fear of failure, embarrassment, underperformance, rejection, confrontation, isolation, and change itself. Using a simple, four-part model, Steinberg helps you understand and better respond to the challenges that change can bring: Focus: Define the problem and come to understand it objectively. Engage: Interact with the challenge and try a range of solutions. Assess: Review the response(s) generated by your tactics. React: Adjust your strategy accordingly. And finally, the book shows how to develop the vital personal and professional skills required to triumph in the "new normal" by understanding and engaging in the 10 new habits that highly successful people share: 1. Play the Odds 2. Embrace Tomorrow Today 3. Seek Constant Motion 4. Lead, Don't Follow 5. Never Stop Learning 6. Create Competitive Advantage 7. Connect the Dots 8. Pick Your Battles 9. Set and Align Your Priorities 10. Always Create Value
Make Change Work for You: 10 Ways to Innovate Fearlessly and Future-Proof Yourself for Success
by Scott SteinbergBusiness, culture, and competitive landscapes have fundamentally changed, but the basic principles and best practices for succeeding and future-proofing both yourself and your organisation haven't. With a mix of compelling stories, research from the social sciences and psychology, and real-world insights, Make Change Work for You shows how to reignite your career, rekindle creativity, and fearlessly innovate your way to success by providing the tools needed to master uncertainty and conquer every challenge in life or business.Using a simple, four-part model, Steinberg helps you understand and better respond to the challenges that change can bring:1. Focus: Define the problem and come to understand it objectively.2. Engage: Interact with the challenge and try a range of solutions.3. Assess: Review the response(s) generated by your tactics.4. React: Adjust your strategy accordingly.And finally, the book shows how to develop the vital personal and professional skills required to triumph in the 'new normal' by understanding and engaging in the 10 new habits that highly successful people share:1. Play the Odds2. Embrace Tomorrow Today3. Seek Constant Motion4. Lead, Don't Follow5. Never Stop Learning6. Create Competitive Advantage7. Connect the Dots8. Pick Your Battles9. Set and Align Your Priorities10. Always Create Value
Make Change!: Art to Inspire Action
by Chronicle BooksA joyful testament to our ability to rise to new challenges and shape the world for the better, Make Change! collects art celebrating inclusivity, love, and civic engagement in one compelling, petite hardcover volume. Filled to the brim with artwork from a diverse roster of celebrated illustrators and designers, this book is a font of encouragement for aspiring activists, artists, teachers, graduates, and movers and shakers. Whether fighting for social justice or striving towards personal growth, Make Change! will inspire readers to face each new hurdle with grace and perseverance.A portion of the proceeds from each sale of this book will be donated to the ACLU.
Make Difficult People Disappear: How to Deal with Stressful Behavior and Eliminate Conflict
by Monica WoffordSave your organization by building the skills to deal with difficult people We all have to work with people we can't stand to be around. Our challenge is to find creative ways to handle these difficult people. In the fable Make Difficult People Disappear, the skills and strategic plan needed to change your mindset are told through a clear, concise story. By first understanding the four main personality types in the workplace, Commander, Organizer, Relater, and Entertainer, readers can then devise effective strategies for diffusing unproductive and damaging behavior. This book serves to change the mindset and behavior of people who deal with difficulty on a regular basis. Wofford describes how through understanding our behavior differences and natural reactions to stress, that utilizing a plan based on these differences the difficulty simply seems to disappear Advises everyone from frustrated executives to entrepreneurs tired of dealing with difficult people who suck the life out of their organizations Complete with a step-by-step action plan, Make Difficult People Disappear serves to replenish your confidence and build skills in leading those who until now you didn't know how to manage and felt there was no choice but to continue to deal with or ignore.
Make Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation
by Steven HoffmanWINNER OF THE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD, 2019 CMI BUSINESS BOOK AWARDSDrawing on case studies from the most innovative startups in Silicon Valley, this step-by-step guide will show you how to develop, validate, and bring your impossibly big ideas to life. In today's world, everyone needs to innovate to stay competitive. It doesn't matter if you're a startup founder, corporate executive, small business owner, freelancer, or professional: There's a technology out there that's going to upend your industry. And if you aren't able to harness it to your advantage, someone else will. Innovation is no longer an option - it's the price of admission into the business world.Make Elephants Fly willhelp you implement the same methodologies and processes as the most innovative startups in Silicon Valley. It will show you: *How startups come up with breakthrough products and services.*How to structure innovation teams.*The best ways to identify and vet new ideas. *What it takes to foster a culture of innovation.*How to establish a process of innovation throughout your organization.By the time you've digested this book, you will have the tools needed to take your impossibly big idea and make it fly!
Make Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation
by Steven HoffmanWINNER OF THE INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD, 2019 CMI BUSINESS BOOK AWARDSDrawing on case studies from the most innovative startups in Silicon Valley, this step-by-step guide will show you how to develop, validate, and bring your impossibly big ideas to life. In today's world, everyone needs to innovate to stay competitive. It doesn't matter if you're a startup founder, corporate executive, small business owner, freelancer, or professional: There's a technology out there that's going to upend your industry. And if you aren't able to harness it to your advantage, someone else will. Innovation is no longer an option - it's the price of admission into the business world.Make Elephants Fly willhelp you implement the same methodologies and processes as the most innovative startups in Silicon Valley. It will show you: *How startups come up with breakthrough products and services.*How to structure innovation teams.*The best ways to identify and vet new ideas. *What it takes to foster a culture of innovation.*How to establish a process of innovation throughout your organization.By the time you've digested this book, you will have the tools needed to take your impossibly big idea and make it fly!
Make Elephants Fly: The Process of Radical Innovation
by Steven S. HoffmanDrawing on examples of the hottest innovators in Silicon Valley, this step-by-step guide will show you how to develop, test and launch your impossibly big idea to success. Almost every major company today has made innovation its number one priority. Yet fewer than one in four executives believe their organizations are effective innovators. The pressure to innovate and the price paid for failure keeps rising, while most companies haven't progressed at all. They are still using the same antiquated techniques pioneered decades ago. This is why some of the biggest corporations in the world manage to lose entire markets to startups they've never heard of.In today's world, everyone will need to innovate to stay competitive. It doesn't matter if you're a startup founder, corporate executive, small business owner, freelancer or professional, there's a technology out there that's going to upend your industry. And if you aren't able to harness it to your advantage, someone else will. Innovation is no longer an option--it's the price of admission into the business world.Make Elephants Fly is designed to help you implement the same innovation methodologies and processes as Silicon Valley startups. It will teach you: How startups come up with breakthrough products and services. How to structure innovation teams. The best ways to identify and vet new ideas. What it takes to foster a culture of innovation. How to establish a process of innovation throughout your organization.By the time you've digested this book, you will have the tools needed to take your impossibly big idea and make it fly!
Make Every Penny Count: Budgeting tips and tricks to keep more money in your pocket
by Ricky Willis Naomi WillisMake money. Save money. Manage money.The cost of living crisis is not going away, if anything, people are more skint than ever. No one knows this better than Ricky and Naomi Willis, who, after years of struggling to make ends meet, came out of debt and launched the Skint Dad blog to help others in the same boat. It is now one of the most popular money blogs in the UK. Make Every Penny Count will show you how to unlock your earning and saving potential so you can easily make money, save money and manage money. From side hustle ideas, turning your everyday stuff into cash, the 1p a day challenge, how to save while eating out and cutting costs on your home and holiday spends, you will learn that being financially better off is within your reach, you just need the inspiration and resources to get there.Packed with case studies and brand new, helpful tools, this guide will show that with simple, clever budgeting hacks, you can still enjoy life without worrying about money all the time.
Make Every Penny Count: Budgeting tips and tricks to keep more money in your pocket
by Ricky Willis Naomi WillisMake money. Save money. Manage money.The cost of living crisis is not going away, if anything, people are more skint than ever. No one knows this better than Ricky and Naomi Willis, who, after years of struggling to make ends meet, came out of debt and launched the Skint Dad blog to help others in the same boat. It is now one of the most popular money blogs in the UK. Make Every Penny Count will show you how to unlock your earning and saving potential so you can easily make money, save money and manage money. From side hustle ideas, turning your everyday stuff into cash, the 1p a day challenge, how to save while eating out and cutting costs on your home and holiday spends, you will learn that being financially better off is within your reach, you just need the inspiration and resources to get there.Packed with case studies and brand new, helpful tools, this guide will show that with simple, clever budgeting hacks, you can still enjoy life without worrying about money all the time.
Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success with Less Stress
by Robert W. BlyDozens of proven methods to get more done in less time, from the author of The Copywriter’s Handbook and Little Blue Book of Business Wisdom.Make Every Second Count goes beyond the usual time-management books to bring you a much broader range of strategies and tactics—you’ll discover how to maximize your time by setting priorities, create useful schedules, overcome procrastination, and boost your energy level and productivity through diet, exercise, and sleep. You’ll also learn how using the latest technology can enable you to manage information and communicate more effectively and efficiently. Find out:How to eliminate bad habits and unnecessary activities that slow you downThe painless way to handle paperworkHow to master the art of saying noThe three types of to-do lists every person should keepGet time-tested advice on goal setting, business travel, social networking, mobile technology, planning systems, time management in the home, and more—and start making every second count!
Make History: How Do You Set the Right Precedent for Implementation?
by Danny Ertel Mark GordonBecause implementation means prolonged interaction with your counterparts, early on you must formulate and enact the precedents that will ensure future success. Anticipating and creating the history you need is the focus of this chapter.
Make Interpretations: Helping Your Team Recognize and Deal with Adaptive Challenges
by Alexander Grashow Marty Linsky Ronald HeifetzWhen a problem is identified, people gravitate toward interpretations of the problem that are technical rather than adaptive, benign instead of conflictual, and individual rather than systemic. These kinds of problems are seen as having easy, painless solutions. Your job in exercising adaptive leadership is to wean people away from these interpretations and nudge them towards recognizing adaptive elements of the challenge, with the ultimate goal of getting people into the habit of interpreting events systematically and politically rather than at the individual and interpersonal level. This chapter provides guidelines for leading your group toward more effective interpretation of challenges which, ultimately, will lead to more creative solutions. This chapter was originally published as chapter 8 of "The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World."
Make It All About Them
by Nadine KellerDebunks the myths of the traditional rules of presentationsIn today's commodity-based marketplace it is harder than ever to differentiate even the most superlative services and products. The sales presentation provides the most powerful opportunity to do so. Make It All About Them reveals the truth behind the traditional rules of presentations and offers sales professionals a new way forward. It explains why focusing on three key points trumps a presentation full of details, why plain English always wins over jargon, why the audience doesn't need to know how important you are but how important they are, and other effective tactics.Provides quick and useful concepts and tools to help salespeople break through the "we have always done it this way" mentality that is so prevalent in corporate AmericaAuthor Nadine Keller is founding partner of Precision Sales Coaching & Training with more than twenty-five years of experience in sales and sales leadership coaching and consultingThis unique approach will allow you to deliver a winning presentation every time by making it all about your audience.
Make It Happen
by The Prince's TrustForeword by Prince's Trust Chairman and founder of Carphone Warehouse Charles Dunstone. Includes advice and guidance from James Caan, Mike Clare and many more top entrepreneurs. The first all-encompassing start up guide from the UK's most respected business charity. The Prince's Trust has been helping people start their own businesses since 1983. . . now you can make it happen too. Make It Happen brings together, for the first time, these years of wisdom and expertise. Now everyone has access to The Prince's Trust's unique start-up advice. . . for just the price of this book. This is a one-stop shop for starting and running your own business - a definitive guide that covers everything you'll need to know and do to start the business you've always dreamed of. Including: Coming up with your business idea Getting funding Writing your business plan Finding an office Making your first sales Dealing with the finances Real life stories from successful entrepreneurs Everyone dreams of working for themselves and making their own fortune - come on, stop dreaming and Make It Happen. The Prince's Trust helps change young lives. Founded in 1976 by HRH The Prince of Wales, The Trust works with disadvantaged young people to get them into work, education or training. The Prince's Trust also provides financial and practical support to inspire young entrepreneurs as part of its Enterprise Programme. It is very proud to have the support of some of the UK's leading entrepreneurs who are committed to supporting the next generation of young businesses.
Make It Happen Blueprint: 18 High-Performance Practices to Crush it in Life and Business Without Burning Out
by Michelle McCullough&“[McCullough] shares fresh ideas, content, and strategies for creating a life and a business that you love. Reading this book will elevate your life!&” —Tiffany Peterson, professional speaker, TiffanySpeaks.com The managing director for Startup Princess—listed by Forbes as &“One of the Top 10 Resources for Women Entrepreneurs&”—Michelle McCullough is a popular small business influencer who runs her own consulting firms. Now, in Make It Happen Blueprint, she &“lifts the curtain on success to show there is no secret genetic code for high performers, and, in fact, everyone has what it takes to be successful&” (Richie Norton, #1 bestselling author, from the foreword). Sharing her own stories of triumphs and failures, she includes eighteen easy principles that will help you overcome mundane dissatisfactions to create a life—and a career—filled with purpose and passion. &“As entrepreneurs we often feel alone. McCullough&’s book Make It Happen reminds us that we are all in this together. She manages to rekindle your purpose as well as provides pertinent ideas and strategies to help you perform at your best. I love the way she provides a section at the end of each chapter to help you implement the things you read and learn in Make It Happen. Every purposeful entrepreneur should have this book on their nightstand!&” —Nicole Carpenter, CEO of MOMentity.com and bestselling author of 52 Weeks to Fortify Your Family &“Michelle&’s chapter &‘Raising High Performers&’ is great! . . . [Her] suggestions and principles really resonated with me and I believe they would absolutely help parents to raise children who thrive!&” —Tara Kennedy-Kline, author of Stop Raising Einstein
Make It Happen in Practice: Creating a Differentiated Workforce at the American Heart Association
by Richard W. Beatty Brian E. Becker Mark A. HuselidWhen it comes to workforce strategy, most line managers and HR professionals understand that the game has changed, but they aren't quite clear about the new rules. As a result, change is slow and often in the wrong direction. In this new era, you need to differentiate your workforce in its management, evaluation, and metrics, just like any other asset. The process involves developing the right strategy, the right jobs, the right workforce, and the right HR management practices. In short, you need to design workforce management systems from the top down and execute them from the bottom up. This chapter shows how to identify and implement the key lessons learned in designing and developing a differentiated workforce using the example of the American Heart Association. This chapter was originally published as chapter 7 of "The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact."
Make It Happen: The Hip-Hop Generation Guide to Success
by Kevin Liles Samantha MarshallKevin Liles rose from intern to president of Def Jam Records in only nine years. Today, at age thirty-seven, he is executive vice president of the Warner Music Group and has helped discover and direct the careers of stars such as Jay-Z and Ludacris. Liles' meteoric climb from urban street kid with hip-hop aspirations to one of the most successful and influential executives in the music industry is far more than a rags-to-riches story. It is a tribute to Liles' incredible work ethic, wisdom and confidence in doing his thing his way -- the hip-hop way. "Every real success story in hip hop comes down to the same thing: someone who finds the will, focus and drive to achieve," Liles writes in Make It Happen: The Hip-Hop Generation Guide to Success. "It doesn't matter if you are male or female. It doesn't matter what race or religion you are. It doesn't matter what hustle you choose." What does matter, Liles says, is that you fight against the odds to realize a dream and be the best that you can be. You empower yourself and make it happen. Kevin Liles presents ten rules of business success, which range from "Find Your Will" and "The Blueprint" to "Don't Let Cash Rule" and "Play Your Position." As he outlines his philosophy, Liles shares how he put his principles to work, chronicling his journey to the top and the stories of others -- executives, artists, mentors and friends -- he has worked with along the way. Make It Happen is both an American success story and a guidebook for the road to having a career and a life you love.
Make It Make Sense: The Bedside Table Essential For Women In Their Twenties
by Bel Hawkins Lucy BlakistonShit You Should Care About was launched as a WordPress blog by three best friends in the back of a political science lecture. Today it's a global ecosystem of content - two podcasts, 3.5 million Instagram followers and a daily newsy. They are your culture vultures, news agents and (reluctant) agony aunts all rolled into one. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE is a collage of cultural analysis, anecdotes, personal essays, poems, and lists, interplayed like a conversation between friends. So sharp they'll make you wince, so honest that you might feel uncomfortable with what's reflecting back at you, so funny you'll want to take a photo and send it to your best friend.It's the bedside table essential for women who've felt their way through life and want that experience reflected back at them. When everything feels like it's whooshing away in an endless scroll, MAKE IT MAKE SENSE holds the answers (or questions) to what to do with all these big feelings.