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How to Improve Your Business Writing. You probably write on the job all the time: proposals to clients, memos to senior executives, a constant flow of emails to colleagues.

How to Improve Your Business Writing

But how can you ensure that your writing is as clear and effective as possible? How do you make your communications stand out? What the Experts Say Overworked managers with little time might think that improving their writing is a tedious or even frivolous exercise. But knowing how to fashion an interesting and intelligent sentence is essential to communicating effectively, winning business, and setting yourself apart. “As Marvin Swift memorably said, clear writing means clear thinking,” said Kara Blackburn, a senior lecturer in managerial communication at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Think before you write Before you put pen to paper or hands to keyboard, consider what you want to say. 6 Business Books That Will Revolutionize Your Business and Change Your Life. Books have the power to change lives.

6 Business Books That Will Revolutionize Your Business and Change Your Life

The Queen of Jordan: Social media can show an Arab world beyond ISIS. Over the past 16 years, Queen Rania of Jordan has become a champion of women's rights, a vocal proponent of education in the Arab world and a strong voice for peace in the Middle East.

The Queen of Jordan: Social media can show an Arab world beyond ISIS

And while some associate royalty with stuffy traditions and secrecy, Queen Rania isn't afraid to Instagram a pic of herself eating a burger to kick off the weekend. With nearly 4 million Facebook followers, 3.6 million Twitter followers and more than 470,000 Instagram followers, Her Majesty has definitely embraced the 21st century. How to Negotiate with Someone More Powerful than You. How Clint Became Hollywood’s Favorite Conservative. Albert and Claire Dwoskin are liberal Democratic heavyweights and important Hillary donors, but now their vaccination skepticism is bringing them unwanted notice.

How Clint Became Hollywood’s Favorite Conservative

Albert Dwoskin and his wife, Claire, have been heavy hitters in Democratic politics for decades, boasting fundraisers with access to top Democratic leaders—even the Clintons. Bill Clinton has spoken at their mansion in McLean, Virginia twice. Albert, a real estate developer, donated more than $10,000 to Ready for Hillary—Clinton’s campaign in waiting—in 2013. That’s on top of the thousands of dollars both Clintons have received from the pair since the 1990s. Best Websites for Gentlemen. The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness. 258k shares Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Unless you’re winning, most of life will seem hideously unfair to you.

The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness

The truth is, life is just playing by different rules. The real rules are there. The science of Interstellar: 5 TED-Ed Lessons to help you understand the film. Is Trauma Genetic? Scientists Say Parents Are Passing PTSD to Kids. Lowell, Massachusetts, a former mill town of the red-brick-and-waterfall variety 25 miles north of Boston, has proportionally more Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans than nearly any other city in the country: as many as 30,000, out of a population of slightly more than 100,000.

Is Trauma Genetic? Scientists Say Parents Are Passing PTSD to Kids

These are largely refugees and the families of refugees from the Khmer Rouge, the Maoist extremists who, from 1975 to 1979, destroyed Cambodia’s economy; shot, tortured, or starved to death nearly two million of its people; and forced millions more into a slave network of unimaginably harsh labor camps. Lowell’s Cambodian neighborhood is lined with dilapidated rowhouses and stores that sell liquor behind bullet-proof glass, although the town’s leaders are trying to rebrand it as a tourist destination: “Little Cambodia.” At Arbour Counseling Services, a clinic on a run-down corner of central Lowell, 95 percent of the Cambodians who come in for help are diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Who is this man who features in every Modi speech? Deen Dayal Upadhyaya.

Who is this man who features in every Modi speech?

Photo credit WikimediaIn 1968, the year Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King were gunned down in full public view, it was hardly surprising that the murder of an Indian political leader in the dark of night should have escaped the world’s notice. But it shook the Sangh Parivar (then headed by “Guruji” Madhav Sadashiv Golwalker, with the Bharatiya Jan Sangh as its political wing. It also included the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parsihad or student wing, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, which worked among tribal communities, the Rashtriya Sewika Samiti or women’s wing and Vidya Bharati which ran the Saraswati Shishu Mandir schools) to its foundations and profoundly impacted Indian politics in subsequent decades.

Who was he? Elon Musk Favorite Books. ReutersElon Musk is a lifelong reader, and books ranging from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" to "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" have shaped his outlook.

Elon Musk Favorite Books

When people ask Elon Musk how he learned to build rockets, he has a simple answer. "I read books," he reportedly likes to say. Musk — who was smart enough to get into a physics Ph.D. program at Stanford University and then drop out because it didn't seem that relevant to him — has always been hungry for the written word. In its profile of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, the New Yorker observed that he was picked on a lot during his South African childhood, and he would retreat into fantasy (J.R.R.

How Kochi innovator Arvind Sanjeev saved you Rs 1 lakh. When Arvind Sanjeev was 10 years old, he took apart his new gift, a remote-controlled toy Ferrari.

How Kochi innovator Arvind Sanjeev saved you Rs 1 lakh

It exasperated his parents, Central Industrial Security Force scientists, Dr Sanjeev and his wife Usha. But there were other signs that Arvind was going to become an inventor — visitors watched in awe as a hovercraft the schoolboy built during a local electronics exhibition took to the skies. Arvind's insatiable curiosity is still alive at 23. From Muhammad to ISIS: Iraq's Full Story. If you’re not sure what Odd Things in Odd Places is and why I’m in Iraq by myself, here’s why.

From Muhammad to ISIS: Iraq's Full Story

On the morning of Saturday, August 2nd, I got in a taxi in Erbil, the regional capital of Kurdish Iraq, and asked the driver to take me to the Khazir refugee camp. This was a scary-ish thing to do. The “scary” part is a result of the fact that the Khazir camp is outside of the borders of the somewhat autonomous Kurdish region, one of the only secure parts of the country. The “ish” part comes from the fact that the Khazir camp, though outside of Kurdish borders, is still in an area currently controlled by the Peshmerga—the Kurdish army. BJP, Muslim leaders laud Modi's 'Indian Muslims will live, die for India' remark; Congress sees red. New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'endorsing Indian Muslims' in his first ever international interview since assuming office has evoked strong political reactions. While the Bharatiya Janata Party rallied behind the PM, Congress criticised Modi and called his appreciation for Muslims as a whitewash.

"Indian Muslims don't need a certificate from anyone. Modi saying this as he is going to US where he was keen to get a visa. Peter Thiel: Competition Is for Losers - WSJ. Lorem Ipsum: Of Good & Evil, Google & China. How to Become a Millionaire by Age 30. Getting rich and becoming a millionaire is a taboo topic. Saying it can be done by the age of 30 seems like a fantasy. 9 Things Rich People Do Differently Every Day.