Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JANUARY 30, 2013

Employee discounts to local businesses and the performing arts -Executive retreat or seminar based on Jim Loehr’s The Power of Full Engagement or The Power of Story -A team of volunteers to promote a fun culture at the office with a nominal budget allocated by the company for game nights, Halloween costume contest prizes, talent shows, etc.

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Men With Pens

MAY 11, 2010

Allow me to tell you: We’ve overhauled, revamped and created a truly extraordinary resource for fiction writers everywhere, and we’ve packaged it up into a very entertaining and useful book called How to Create Believable Characters. You probably didn’t know about this treasure, because I forgot to blog about it.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 6, 2010

I have books on marketing. Here’s how it works: Go gather up all the books on the subject you need to be better at if your business is going to succeed. In any how-to book, every chapter is essentially an expert explaining how to do something. Yes, you’ll probably re-read the book when you actually do the assignment.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 27, 2010

We’ve heard the news, read the info and bought the book. Originally posted at The Web Squeeze Just in case you didnt read the book on kicking your sleep problems to the curb or need some extra help smashing those insomniac habits, check out A Good Nights Sleep by the serious pros over at Harvard Medical School. Who’s in?

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Men With Pens

MARCH 14, 2010

Here’s the link if you wanna read it: [link] Reply Melinda | SuperWAHM ( @Superwahm1 ) March 16, 2010 at 4:56 am Coaching and Consulting are two different creatures – and mentoring is yet another. Mentors – someone who is in your field but a lot further ahead than you. “Ok, you need to do a, b and c.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

It’s their name that sells the book. Michael Connelly could rewrite the Santa Monica phone book and it’d be a bestseller. The folks who publish books aren’t looking for good. Agents and publishers are looking for a book that becomes a whole reading experience and exceeds the sum of its parts. You’re not.

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Brilliantly Better

DECEMBER 24, 2010

I agree the books were largely based on some of the most popular blog posts and that made the task a little bit easier. Had to mentor projects and give advice to the attendees, evaluate the pitches and pick a winner. Discovered That Everybody Has His Own Book Of Life. So, without further ado, here’s what I did in 2010.

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Men With Pens

JULY 18, 2010

Can be difficult without a great mentor to advice me. Can sometimes be challenging without a great mentor to advice me on certain aspects of the business. MwP is Powered by… Sign up now and get access to exclusive content, deals and discounts, sneak previews and all sorts of secret stuff you wont want to miss.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

Our parents, our mentors, our employers talked with us. For example, if you sell a book for $10, you might sell a workbook for $40. Five years ago, a three-inch thick book was too small for me. It seems stupid to buy a book on SEO nowadays when it seems every 3 weeks something major happens with Google or Bing.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Not authors who sell books in stores. When their readers don’t actually know what they do, because they never visit the site, they simply open Google Reader or their email for the RSS feed. Twilight, New Moon, and the Gauntlet of Book-to-Movie Adaptations. Not experts who sell consultation time. We did this to ourselves.

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