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Email is the bread and butter of the modern worker and it’s also its plague.
I have mentioned it quite often here because it is very simple to send an email but the problem is on the receiving side.
That should be the first rule: before you send, please think! Very often, when we send an email, we get rid of a problem and we send it to someone else. Sending an email is easy, the difficult part is for the one who handles it.
My Friend Ludovic has told me about this acronym for the first time and I immediately adopted it. This acronym is known for project management or to decide what criteria are important.
MoSCoW stands for features you look for. The 4 letters are M, S, C, and W. they stand for:
– Must have.
– Should have
– Could have
– Won’t have
It has taken me a while to start reading this book. I am now fascinated by it.
The habit is deconstructed in 3 steps:
– Clue, a trigger.
– the routine
– the reward.
This might seem abvious and too simple but it is also very powerful. When you understand it, you can modify and transform your habits in the way you think you should.
One thing I like to do during my holidays is taking time to visit book stores. Having time to ramble around is one great pleasure.
Of course I look at all the book but I keep taking pleasure to see our titles. Every year I see more of them. Last week I have taken a few pictures.
As a non-fiction book publisher I have seen many submissions. Here are 4 things that can make a difference, and help your book project get interest from a book publisher.
It’s hard to keep the rythm, especially during the holiday break. I have been taken my family from Dieppe to La Rochelle.
Yesterday in Dieppe I have had a special though for the Canadian sacrifice in 1942 when and allied operation failed.
When can I find time to write?
My 30 days blogging in English challenge is now completed. Since 18th July, I have published 30 posts on this blog…
Even if I have been in a hurry some evenings, I am quite proud and I think I am going to celebrate tonight 🙂
Writing in English is still quite a challenge for me and I hope my typos, misspellings and weird sentences have not hurt too much your eyes. I dare to do that because I believe it is the best way to make progress.
A few years ago I attended a course about speed reading. It was during my years at CJD, Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants, an organisation in which I did a lot of training.
I am a reader. And when we measured our speed I was one of the fasted. No big surprise, book publishers read a lot and they have to be able to read fast. No big deal. I remember being fascinated by my father when I was a kid, his ability to read a letter just by ‘taking a photo’ with his eyes and returning the document to me and saying: you’ve made a mistake…
I grow up in a time when computer were still rare and connected computers didn’t exist for the general public.
In the 80’s, a first generation of affordable computers arrived on the market behind the rockstar Apple II. There was Sinclair’s ZX series, Commodore, Amstrad, Thomson TO7, etc. I didn’t have any of these, but I was lucky enough to get a Texas Instruments TI99/4A.
It was not the best machine around but plugged on the TV and a tape recorder, it was perfect to learn basic programming. I remember building games like a complete Yahtzee. But that was pretty it for my programming career.
As a publisher, I often read books that are not in my lists, I love to collect them and if a book is good it brings me joy, whoever is the publisher.
Yesterday I have started to read The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F**k and it gave me the idea to visit the authors’ blog.