Creative Careers

In his instant self-help classic, the international bestseller How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, Michael J. Gelb identified seven aspects of da Vinci's genius that contemporary readers can emulate and apply in their own lives.

As another year unfolded, lifestyle blogger and mom of three Miranda Anderson realized she felt weighed down by the mass of belongings her family had been accumulating. In an effort to pare down and cultivate a deeper sense of gratitude and abundance in their lives, she and her husband decided to embark on a minimalism challenge, where they would stop all unnecessary shopping for one year. It meant learning to use what they already had and being more creative.

Work with Me Not for Me is your all-inclusive guide to developing your leadership and team-building skills. You will learn how to facilitate your personal success by creating an exceptional, disciplined organizational team built on truth, accountability, support, trust, and empowerment. You will learn how to build a culture where team members want to be more, do more, and earn more.

From GQ's "Nerd of the Year" to one of Time's most influential people in the world, Biz Stone represents different things to different people. But he is known to all as the creative, effervescent, funny, charmingly positive and remarkably savvy co-founder of Twitter - the social media platform that singlehandedly changed the way the world works. Now, Biz tells fascinating, pivotal, and personal stories from his early life and his careers at Google and Twitter, sharing his knowledge about the nature and importance of ingenuity today.

Marketing was destiny for Mat Zucker - the perfect cocktail of creativity, art, and salesmanship. Half-guidebook, half memoir, Bronze Seeks Silver surfaces 30 years of lessons from an ad veteran in selling brands, building relationships, and managing careers.

In this latest collection of real-life stories, Dave Trott provides lessons about problem solving and creative thinking that can be applied in advertising, business, and the wider world. With his trademark wit, wisdom, and critical eye, he shows how great problem solvers and creative thinkers are those who are not afraid to say “I don’t know."

Creative Mind and Success is a follow-up to Creative Mind and another one for the truth seekers. Learn more about the power of attraction, the power of thought, and how to tap in to the creative mind to achieve success in life. "I say that ye are gods, and every one of you sons of the Most High." Written by the late great Ernest Holmes, metaphysician/spiritual teacher/new thought leader.

The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward outright extinction after having taken for granted a captive audience for too long, a choice that has led to lazy, overabundant, and frankly annoying ads. Make no mistake, Madison Avenue: Traditional advertising as we know it is over.

One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions - and finds some surprising conclusions.

Learn the art-focused practices & tools to become a whole-brained entrepreneur working from a state of curiosity and creativity. Susie deVille, with her unwavering passion and contagious energy, is on a mission to unveil the transformative power of self-trust.

In a world where every business, brand, product, and service needs a strong visual identity, it’s critical for clients and creative professionals to work together. And the key to success, as with any relationship, is communication. In Dear Client, award-winning graphic designer Bonnie Siegler offers an invaluable step-by-step guide to how to talk so creatives will listen, and how to listen when creatives talk.

El libro contiene ocho competencias clave para producir la innovación y los cambios que hoy se necesitan. Cada lector elegirá lo que crea necesario para aumentar su potencial creativo, practicando día a día lo aprendido. Los resultados aparecerán mucho antes de lo esperado.

Popular creative coach Gail McMeekin, author of the best-selling The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women, offers a wealth of advice for the specific challenges creative women face today: thinking too small, underestimating the need for change, fearing the future, and lacking self-confidence. McMeekin combines interviews with some of today’s most successful women and her own proven success strategies to help readers transcend their “blocks” and achieve success.

Can a creative mind thrive in a corporate landscape? Can a business leader use creativity to guide teams more effectively? From one of today’s leading creative minds comes a book for modern rebels on building a rewarding life without losing your edge. Written for uncompromising creative thinkers and aspiring changemakers, The Art of Creative Rebellion encapsulates insights and wisdom collected over a life of creative and professional prosperity.

While we often think of reflection as a way to consider what is or was, it can also be a powerful tool for imagining and shaping what could be. Through activities based on the science, art, and practice of reflection, this book guides you through simple experiments that teach you how to make meaning from your experiences and, as a result, support your goals and values.

The founder of the Science of Mind and Religious Science wrote the book in 1919, and we have distilled this book into a synopsis and short VIP summary. This little book is an attempt to explain what each soul must discover for himself, that he stands in the midst of an eternal creative power which presses itself around his own thought, and casts back to him glorified all that he thinks.

For 50 years, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts and tips on technique to informative interviews with published authors, literary agents, and editors. But never before has Poets & Writers marshalled its 50 years’ worth of knowledge to create an authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career - until now.

Dream Like an Artist, Think Like an Accountant is a conversational and action-oriented book that will make you better at managing your business finances so that you can free up time, energy, and headspace to achieve more creatively. In short, this book does not try to change you. Leveraging the skills you already have, this book offers a masterclass in three core business management concepts.

Creativity is the #1 rising skill you need in the workplace. If you have left your creativity behind in the grind to success, thinking that hard work and analytical thinking was all you need? This book is your starting line. The world has changed, grasshopper. The good news about creativity? You snooze, you don't lose. You still have the creative thinking ingredients rattling around in your brain. To access them, you just need to reconnect with the habits you used as a child to explore and learn about the world, and imagine new possibilities. That's where this book will help.

Winning customers is the lifeblood of any business, yet so many people fail dismally at it. James Sinclair knows how it’s done. In 15 years, he has built a one-man business as a children’s clown into a multi-million-pound enterprise with a network of companies and over 400 employees. In this audiobook, he lets eager business owners into his secrets for getting the right customers fast and to make their businesses grow. Finding, getting, and keeping customers is the most significant and important skill set of a successful start-up entrepreneur.