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Power Reading
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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780130207807
Edition: 2
ISBN: 0130207802
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Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 226
Publication Date: 1998-09
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Editorial Review:
Business people estimate they spend 40% of their work time reading. Businesses spend trillions of dollars a year on employee reading, yet they don't measure how efficiently that reading is done. This book will NOT show you how to speed read, since, according to the author, speed reading doesn't work. This book teaches the principles of Power Reading, helping you increase your reading efficiency at work by 10 to 70 percent. The book also shows you how to apply Power Reading skills to the computer screen, and demonstrates ways to improve writing, listening and study skills.
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Rating:  - Power to the Readers!
Within the first half-hour of opening Power Reading, I found ways to save time on the endless documents I have to read each day as part of my job. Thank you, Phyllis Mindel. Time translates to money and your book is worth its price ten times over. I had thought I was an efficient reader prior to picking up this user-friendly book, well-organized book, but I found dozens of ways to increase my productivity with Power Reading.
Rating:  - Excellent techniques but overpriced book.
Although I fully subscribe and practice the techniques expounded in Ms. Mindell's work and painfully learned over 20 years, I found the book highly overpriced for its content. Many magazine and newspaper articles are printed on page after page, pushing the book over 200 pages. This is pricey stuff ... This is not a "speed reading" technique rather an effective reading management system (prioritizing, and then information gleaning techniques). The book is 1/5 the price of many "speed ... Read More
Rating: - Outstanding program for literate professionals
As an adult and former teacher who reads widely and takes courses,I require an intelligent approach to efficient reading:I`ve got to get through huge amounts of books,articles,journals,and email with good comprehension.Power Reading overcomes the shortcomings of every reading system I`ve ever seen.The unusual "structural" approach holds the key to speeding through any kind of material and understanding just what you need.The excellent chapter on "Reading in the Twenty-first Century" ... Read More
Rating:  - Overpriced, overcomplicates reading
The basic concepts in this book are good: preread, understand the author's thesis, then read more detail as it suits your purpose. But this overpriced book (a thin hardback that is priced like a college textbook) goes into a little too much detail with many examples from magazines and journals for practice. That is really my only real complaint, that she tries to give too many examples of every possible way to, for example, find the topic sentence. I think you can learn some excellent strategies to improve ... Read More
Rating: - A truly dynamic reading system.
The in-basket is an easy and essential method for analyzing your reading needs and applying the methods needed to meet those needs. The four step prereading program can reduce any large reading assignment and you'll get through it with higher comprehension. I have taken a speed reading class and read many speed reading books but none seemed to stick with me. I'm in an MBA program and the reading assignments are very time consuming. Power Reading helps me get through the assingments quicker and with a much ... Read More
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