Creative Careers

A noted time management consultant shows how to identify goals, clarify priorities, and achieve an ideal balance among work, family, and play concerns. Creative Time Management for the New Millennium especially appeals to those who want a time management approach that offers more flexibility while still accomplishing business and personal goals.

This book can change your life. We all have the software to be creative, but many of us have been shamed or criticized, and our creative sparks are smoldering beneath layers of fear and lack of confidence. Gail McMeekin's book blasts through that and gets you excited again about your potential. McMeekin interviews 31 of today's most successful women, integrating their insights with her own proven success strategies to help you get onto the road to success.

We are about to enter a new age of creativity that will require a new set of superheroes to help the world thrive. This audiobook will make you one of those creative superheroes by unleashing new creative superpowers to help you solve your biggest business problems. This is the modern skillset for creative problem solving.

Robert Iger se convirtió en CEO de la Walt Disney Company en 2005 durante un momento difícil para la empresa. La moral se había deteriorado, la competencia era intensa y la tecnología estaba cambiando más rápido que en cualquier otro momento de la historia. Su proyecto de futuro se basaba en tres ideas muy claras: renovar el compromiso con la importancia de la calidad, integrar la tecnología en lugar de luchar contra ella y pensar con ambición y con una visión global para convertir a Disney en una marca más fuerte en los mercados internacionales.

Una recopilación exhaustiva sobre las claves del liderazgo creativo y la innovación, esa es la tónica del último libro de los académicos -y expertos en coaching- Eduardo Águila y Marcelino Garay, quienes desarrollaron una completa guía escrita e ilustrada sobre la cultura organizacional de hoy. Con el objetivo de contribuir al conocimiento, especializado y amplio, los autores de la publicación explican que la gestión de las organizaciones cuenta desde hace algunas décadas con el desarrollo académico y empresarial de tres grandes impulsores de la adaptabilidad organizacional: estas son la creatividad, la innovación y el liderazgo compartido.

Tackle your thorniest problems using the wise fool's savvy strategies! The wise fool is the archetypal contrarian known for his creativity, irreverence, and humor. He looks at life in unorthodox ways and pushes back against the status quo. Throughout history, powerful decision-makers (Egyptian pharaohs, Chinese emperors, Persian sultans, and European kings) consulted wise fools to question the assumptions that kept them mired in stale and obsolete solutions.

It’s a classic American success story: Cheryl Lightle, once an unemployed single mom, goes on to become the cofounder of one of the most successful direct-selling companies in the United States. Creative Memories reveals the 10 guiding principles she used to create her scrapbooking empire, teaching listeners how to use these principles to achieve success in their own lives.

Gravity is a practical and inspiring guide for creative professionals who are done chasing opportunities and ready to start attracting them—through clarity, alignment, and inner momentum. Tony Baker shares hard-won lessons from decades of leading creative teams and mentoring talent at the world’s top companies. Drawing from lived experience—not hype—he reveals how to build a body of work, a way of thinking, and a presence that naturally draws the right projects, collaborators, and clients.

Harness your creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to build a flourishing freelance graphic design business. This comprehensive guide equips aspiring designers with the knowledge and tools to enter the freelance world, manage projects effectively, and attract a steady stream of clients. Whether you're transitioning from a full-time job or starting fresh, this book provides actionable insights, from setting up your workspace to marketing your services and handling logistical concerns like contracts and billing.

Everyone claims to value creativity, and businesses are clamoring for disruptive thinking and innovation. Yet we often feel creatively stifled at work, because business processes seem to leave no room for real originality. In Everyday Creative, culture and creative leadership expert Mykel Dixon reveals what's holding us back from our full creative potential and explains how we can reclaim our original, vibrant selves.

This is an excerpt from the book Creative Writing Career: Becoming a Writer of Movies, Video Games, and Books. This section comprises the entire section on video game writing, to include video game writer interviews, and is Part Five of the book.

Step into the world of digital visibility with this comprehensive guide, your roadmap to enhancing your online presence without relying on costly ads. Packed with the latest techniques and actionable advice, this book is your key to sustainable growth using organic methods. You will learn to: Boost your search rankings with cutting-edge SEO trends. Capitalize on social media to build a loyal following organically. Optimize your content for maximum visibility and engagement.

Too many companies limit their strategic thinking by focusing on what they already know how to do. Executives are expected to set concrete objectives and create detailed, step-by-step plans to reach them. This approach may satisfy short-term considerations like quarterly earnings reports, but it produces modest innovation and evolutionary development at best. As a result, the business can find itself in a performance plateau that it cannot seem to break out of.

Traditional business structures love stability and predictability. Yet many organizations believe the two essential ingredients for long-term success are creativity and innovation. Kirsten May and Alex Varricchio, founders of the marketing agency UpHouse, call the relationship between these two opposing expectations the Proximity Paradox - the belief that those who are closest to a subject are best-qualified to innovate for it, when, in reality, intense proximity limits creativity.

東大卒、Ｚ世代ホテルプロデューサーが放つ初の本！あらゆるスモールビジネスを志す人にオススメしたい！――深津貴之（インタラクション・デザイナー）

From the top ad people all over the world - the ones who create the best television commercials and ads: the ones you love, the ones you remember, the ones you wish you had thought of yourself - come their own stories, in their own words, about the first work they ever did…and lived to talk about, barely. They talk about the zaniness and craziness; they talk about the good guys and the bad girls, and vice versa; they talk about things you think can only happen on television or in the movies but actually happened to these people. You may not believe what you hear, but in the ad world, you may not believe what you see, either.

Ally Archer knows what it feels like to have incurable wanderlust (also known as “the travel bug”). After leaving her 9-5 job, she was ready to do anything to make her travel dreams a reality. She found a way to hack the system by asking herself: “Instead of saving up to travel for two weeks per year, how can I find a way to make money while I travel throughout the year?” This led her to start a simple online freelance business that grew significantly over time.

This book aims to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that superpowers do exist, and are available to us all if only we will apply our minds to discover them, and tap into their limitless potential - making them a reality. This book will explore the reality that is creative power. Tap into the creative power you have to change the world.

悲観的で心配性なまじめ人間でも大丈夫！『TAROMAN』のクリエイターが教える“後ろ向きに前進する”ための仕事術。

Mastering Twitter is the most powerful way to get your voice heard as a creative professional. In The #ArtOfTwitter, fantasy writer and Twitter coach Daniel Parsons explains how he grew a 90,000 strong army of loyal followers and gained real-world influence as an indie author. Breaking his tactics into short chapters and simple, actionable steps, he demonstrates exactly how any creative professional can achieve similar results.