Business Communication Today, 15th Ed.
Chapter 1. Professional Communication in a Digital, Social, Mobile World
"Most of us begin our careers working through the ranks of people executing tasks -- early success comes from correctly completing work while focusing on quality, time and budget.
Everyone can be creative.
"Give your future self a break.
"Most of the time finding a new job is about who you know and your networking strategies.
"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.
"The company's new head of AI and personalized learning sees an opportunity to create enhanced ways of evaluating students' work.
"[In August], cashierless store Zippin opened its doors to customers in San Francisco for the first time, beating Amazon Go to become the first cashierless store in the city.
"Speak from the heart (and not a script) in order to engage your audience.
Karin Hurt (photo, left) reports both the problems and the solutions.
"Without realizing it, we're fluent in the language of pictures, says illustrator Christoph Niemann.
"One of the biggest challenges you will face in business is handling conflict.
"When your mind is even slightly resisting a task, it will look for novel things to focus on.
"Your teams assume they're talking about the same thing--until they realize they're not.
"Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance.
"We celebrate bold entrepreneurs whose ingenuity led them to success, but what happens to those who fail?
"This manager has worked with remote team for 10 years, and has learned that in order for remote teams to be successful–you need to set them up to do so.
"This kind of discussion is all about degrees of certainty.
"This kind of discussion is all about degrees of certainty.
"Advice from 7 TED speakers on creating better connections.
"On any given day we're lied to from 10 to 200 times, and the clues to detect those lies can be subtle and counter-intuitive.
Business Insider's Julie Bort interviews Aimee Mullins (photo, left) for tips on better public speaking.
"We feel that technology is bad, while it actually isn't.
"Executive voice requires the leader or presenter to not only have the content but to understand the context or role.
"Many artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we're restricted only by the laws of physics, not the limits of our intelligence.