Przez wiele lat Chris Voss był głównym negocjatorem FBI specjalizującym się w odbijaniu zakładników porwanych poza granicami USA. W swojej nowej książce Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It, Voss streszcza swoją wieloletnią ekspertyzę i oferuje wachlarz metod które są przydatne w wielu sytuacjach życiowych: od zakupu nowego samochodu, poprzez…
After finishing William Germano’s From Dissertation to Book, I decided to invest in my writing by reading On Writing Well and They Say, I Say. Several themes connect both books. First, writing is hard. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. These days we are flooded with books „written” by athletes, cooks, and politicians….
I admit, I am a skeptic when it comes to books promoting fixes, especially those quick and easy ones. Follow these ten steps, they promise, and you will lose weight, earn more money, and achieve whatever else you are after. My impression of such books is that they offer commonsensical advice, but present it in…
As I am working on revising my dissertation into a book manuscript, one of my former teachers recommended that I read William Germano’s From Dissertation To Book. Graduate students know that time is scarce and one has to be judicious about which books to read. There is never enough time to read everything that is…
I just finished reading The Whole-Brain Child, a book that offers 12 strategies for new (and old) parents. The motto of the book is to help parents not just survive but also thrive. It is obviously important to enjoy being a parent; our kids after all will move out some day, which means that we…