Power Reading: A Dynamic System for Mastering All Your Business Reading

by Phyllis Mindell

Book Overview

Designed specifically to help business people and students read books, reports, trade journals and other sources of information quickly and efficiently, this text also enables the reader to spot solutions others may miss and provides practice examples drawn from business publications.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137538723
• ISBN13: 9780137538720
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

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.

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" gives really practical guidelines for on-line reading.Every professional and student should read this fine book.

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 better understanding of what I have read. I feel smarter!

BEST COMPREHENSION/SPEED READING BOOK ON THE MARKET!

A wonderfully laid out book with very intuitive examples of speed reading techniques and methods to enhance one's comprehension, speed, and overall enjoyment over any text. I found this book exceptionally useful for reading and ingesting articles and books related to complex topics such as technology, physics, and mathematics. Unlike some other speed reading snake-oil books being sold, Speed Reading delivers immediate, impactful, and long-lasting results. Don't spend another day without the tools, techniques, and methodologies presented in this wonderful book.

Phyllis Mindell's Power Reading empowers the reader.

Phyllis Mindell's Power Reading system enables me to teach my high school students to successfully process reading materials, from science texts to fiction. The strategies empower the students to set purpose and efficiently process according to their needs. Moreover, they are able to apply the strategies successfully to the many standardized tests they must take in high school, to the research they are constantly doing and to the required on-line reading. Mindell clearly defines analysis and synthesis and gives ample passages for practice of both. The reading/writing connection comes alive, useful and applicable through easily understood examples. Other favorite chapters are "Three Power Reading Bonuses" and "Power Vocabulary." The most motivational passage is "Tyrants hate reading for the same reasons business people benefit from it. It's no accident that the Nazis burned books: they knew they couldn't control the minds of those who read...."(213) This year, while a post-graduate student, the Power Reading strategies became time-savers as I applied them to the mounds of required reading. Thanks to Mindell's user-friendly book, my students and I feel "dressed for success" and ready to tackle any reading material set before us.