Creative Careers

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.

Are you experiencing creative burnout? Using the effective strategies for creative endurance developed by creative director of Fast Company and accomplished marathon runner Mike Schnaidt, you can remain imaginative and inventive through any tough situation, throughout your life and career. Featuring inspiring stories from designers, astronauts, illustrators, ultramarathoners, chefs, photographers, and an Olympic Gold medalist, Creative Endurance provides a unique combination of practical advice, alongside inspiring examples to help you overcome creative obstacles and thrive.

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.

As a musician, do you feel successful, respected, creatively fulfilled, supported in your creative goals, or inancially comfortable? If you answered no to any of these questions, you need to listen to The Happiest Musician.

Many farm folks work hard at producing great crops and caring for livestock, but when it comes to communicating their deepest desires for the future of the farm, they get stuck. Building Your Farm Legacy: Tools to Empower Family is a useful toolbox created by a farm woman, partner, and mother to a successor.

Practical, motivational, and inspirational The Modern Artist’s Way: How to Build a Successful Career as a Creative in the 21st Century is a new business book by art dealer and advisor, curator, speaker, and inspirational coach Bridgette Mayer. The Modern Artist’s Way presents a logical and action-oriented approach to building your art and creative business. Through examples and case studies as well as action steps, it will teach you how to take control of the outcomes you want to achieve in your creative business.

TOUTES les techniques requises pour vous définir comme rédacteur professionnel sont condensées dans ces pages et, bientôt, vous pourriez les serrer entre vos mains. Est-ce qu’il suffit de le lire une fois pour encaisser des chiffres fous? NON, mais il deviendra votre Bible pour surpasser la concurrence jour après jour, en appliquant chaque suggestion dans les travaux que vous allez développer. Apprenez l’art de l’écriture persuasive et devenez l’un des professionnels les plus recherchés sur le marché!

The fastest, easiest, and most profitable way to have a successful business is to work with your ideal customers. They value your offering and pay you what it's worth and they are a joy to serve. But how can you rise above the noise in a crowded marketplace to attract these customers? You learn to speak their lingo. In LINGO, serial entrepreneur, brand consultant, and host of Creative Warriors podcast Jeffrey Shaw reveals how to make your business irresistible to your ideal customers by showing them that you get them.

In her book Selling in a Skirt, Judy Hoberman offers invaluable and proven insights into how gender differences can affect sales outcomes, and the tools and strategies to drive real results in today's marketplace. Judy offers a suite of workshops, seminars, and coaching programs that compliment her highly successful book. Her 30 years in sales has given her both the knowledge and sense of humor about the gender differences that we should all understand and embrace instead of feeling unable to communicate. Judy's humorous stories about how men and women sell, manage, recruit, and supervise differently will enlighten you in learning how both genders can support each other's successes in a more productive way.

Want to make a living from your creative work? The "hows" are changing faster than ever, but the essential habits you need remain timeless. Inspiring role models can be a powerful factor helping you build a successful career. Inside The Wealthy Creative, you'll find example after example of real authors, artists, designers, and more (all enlivened by the engaging voice of narrator Elizabeth Austin). These creatives share the timeless habits that helped them forge their own successful and fulfilling careers in the digital age. Each chapter of The Wealthy Creative presents one of the essential practices or concepts that crystallized out of the author's analysis of dozens of interviews conducted with real creatives working in both the digital economy and in more traditional spheres.

Join speaker and coach Heather Whelpley as she shares her life-changing journey to let go of proving, pleasing, and perfecting—and guides you to do the same. Through a seamless blend of vulnerable, heartfelt stories and practical tools, you'll discover why you go into overachieving perfection mode.

The exercises in this audio will help you determine YOUR SUCCESS, identify your WHY and set your GOALS and achieve them. I'm just a small town boy with a dream made possible by the Way of the COBRA. My philosophy propelled me into icon status as Karate's Bad Boy Mike Barnes in Karate Kid III, then saved my life in a near death experience.

There is no lack of investment options in the current business world. However, all the prevalent investment options demand in-depth knowledge of the ins and outs of the investment options along with extensive expertise of the same. Contrary to all these options, investment in the stock market is less demanding and challenging in terms of knowledge and relevant expertise.

Art Thinking combines the mind-sets of art and the tools of business to protect space for open-ended exploration and manage risks on your way to success. Art Thinking takes you from "Wouldn't it be cool if...?" to realizing your highest aims, helping you build creative skills you can apply across all facets of business and life. Warm, honest, and unexpected, Art Thinking will help you reimagine your work and life-and even change the world-while enjoying the journey from point A.

How "Aha!" really happens....When do you get your best ideas? You probably answer "At night" or "In the shower" or "Stuck in traffic". You get a flash of insight. Things come together in your mind. You connect the dots. You say to yourself, "Aha! I see what to do." Brain science now reveals how these flashes of insight happen. It's a special form of intuition. We call it strategic intuition, because it gives you an idea for action - a strategy. This new book by William Duggan is the first full treatment of strategic intuition.

Social innovation and entrepreneurship are rising forces in the world. As stakeholder capitalism takes root, and as the extent of systemic challenges becomes clear - from climate change to income inequality to food security to health care and beyond - more and more of the best and brightest will hear the calling to become innovators and entrepreneurs who develop and deploy solutions to the world's thorniest problems.

Have you just started using QuickBooks and found it rather scary? Maybe, you heard about this software and wanted to know more about it? Well, whatever the reason, you don’t have to worry anymore. This book will help you learn everything about QuickBooks and how it can assist in maintaining the finances and records of your organization.

In Creative Conflict, negotiation experts Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus use a dynamic, dialectical approach to show how negotiations are driven by competition and cooperation at the same time. They believe that when we tiptoe around conflict, we negotiate in a halfhearted way that limits our results. By contrast, creative negotiators probe and push until they hit a wall of disagreement, and then they figure out how to get past it.

What’s the big idea? Jaime Cabrera has been asking this question and leading creative teams to the answer for over 25 years. Inspired by and featuring conversations with dozens of top creative directors from around the world on his popular podcast Confessions of a Creative Director, What’s the Big Idea is a must-have resource for any ambitious creative looking to advance their career as a creative leader at an agency, brand, or organization of any kind.

Lifescale is a journey of self-discovery and growth. It's about getting back into balance and remastering our destinies. Author Brian Solis knows firsthand. He struggled with distraction and all of its ill effects. To get his life back, he developed a set of techniques, exercises, and thought experiments designed to tame the chaos, and positively and productively navigate our day-to-day lives. Instead of falling victim to the never-ending cycle of newsfeeds, Likes, addictive apps, and boredom scrolling, we can learn to manage our time and inspire our own lives.