Sentence examples for book productive from inspiring English sources

This is an idea that has been elaborated in Emmy Gut's book "Productive and Unproductive Depression," which proposes that the long pause brought about by a depression causes people to change their lives in useful ways, especially after a loss.

In a 1989 book "Productive and Unproductive Depression" (Basic Books), Dr. Gut described, among other cases, the experience of a biochemist, Albert, who frequently became depressed when a research strategy he was pursuing went nowhere.

In an excerpt from his new book, The Productive Edge, Richard Lester spells out the lessons winning companies offer our society.

"I would lean toward an optimistic view," said Michael Maccoby, a management consultant and author of the book "The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership".

The games start a little after 6 30, but instead of tuning in, I eat dinner, then go for a bike ride or read a book — anything productive that does not carry the risk of encountering football action.

The research done for my new book, The Productive Edge, from which this article was adapted, suggests that an enduring, deep-rooted commitment to a handful of core beliefs about corporate identity and purpose helps to explain the accomplishments of other durably successful companies too.

In consulting with CEOs, I've had them and their executive teams answer the personality questionnaire from my book The Productive Narcissist as a way to discuss how the personalities of the individuals influence their leadership style and how they relate to one another and their followers.

It's a similar story with my iPad, but with the addition of books and productive things like writing.

And the writing of the book followed a productive period of visual work for Smith.

"Together" is a book about messy, productive collaboration that makes no mention anywhere of Wikipedia.

This book could spark productive classroom discussions on the ethics of particular narrative strategies and the social impact of undergraduate reading". ""Haunting Encounters takes seriously the ethics of reading narratives across cultures.