Business Communication Today, 15th Ed.
Chapter 6. Completing Business Messages
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"In today’s lesson, we’re going to continue our look at the 10 key characteristics of the successful business leader.
"For today’s lesson, we’re going to take a look at 10 key skills or characteristics that every successful business leader needs.
"Get more done by understanding which of your tasks depend on which others, and sequence them to take the least amount of time.
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"Do your brainstorming sessions create a drizzle or a flood of ideas?
Everyone experiences the world through unconscious biases of perceptual filters, and too often people are unaware that they are doing so.
"Bezos is Amazon's chief writing evangelist, and his advocacy for the art of long-form writing as a motivational tool and idea-generation technique has been ordering how people think and work at Amazon for the last two decades—most importantly, in how the company creates new ideas, how it shares them, and how it gets support for them from the wider world.
"When you’re in an interview, everything is focused on you – your education, your skills, and the qualities that make you the best candidate for the job.
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"Editing involves a proactive editor making changes and suggestions that will improve the overall quality of your writing, particularly in relation to language use and expression.
"In this podcast, Coach Kelly Forrister focuses on the best practices of email communications with others, including appropriate use, writing effective subject lines, creating agreed upon response times, reply to all and more.
"Emotions and work are a weird thing.
"To demystify some of the ambiguities surrounding the resume editing process, here’s a hand-picked list of some of the most important dos and don’ts to be aware of during this stage.
"Listen to a fascinating segment with David Allen where he outlines the sources of procrastination, shares a few fun examples of the dynamics at work, and talks about the steps you can take to overcome it.
"In the very first episode of Read Ink, I explain the difference between proofreading and editing, and how those two processes should be done individually for a stronger overall manuscript.
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"This kind of discussion is all about degrees of certainty.
"This kind of discussion is all about degrees of certainty.
"We all want to be more productive, but we’re drowning in a sea of productivity apps and hacks.
"In The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption, Farai Chideya [photo, left], an award-winning author, journalist and professor, reports on today’s challenging job landscape and offers tools for navigating the inevitable changes.
"Though he’s nearly seen it all, Tyler Gaffney [photo, left] still gets surprised when early-stage B2B startups tell him how they’ve determined their pricing.
"Have you ever wanted to reinvent yourself and start all over?