Creative Careers

The rule book has changed. You attend a business networking event and meet Jack. You buy him coffee to foster a relationship. Point scored. Jack has the potential to be your new customer and even leads you to new business. Feeling pretty good, you go to another function. You're impressed with the influential speaker at the event. She walks off stage to a lineup of people who want to meet her. You figure, what the heck? I'll invite her for a coffee, too. Wrong. Quite honestly, you could be pushing away an influential connection without knowing it.

Larry Armstrong didn’t just want to build a great company within his industry; he wanted to build a great company, period. And under Larry’s creative, layer-based leadership approach, Ware Malcomb has become a global leader in the industrial building sector—one of the world’s most successful and admired businesses of its kind. Central to this success is a firm commitment to developing and training well-rounded leaders. Larry’s vision for competitive excellence is animated by investing in and caring about the development of the whole person and their surrounding community.

An essential guide on how to build and run a creative business from ten of the world's most inspiring entrepreneurs, including multi-Grammy winner Nile Rodgers, culinary legend Ruthie Rodgers, and Emmy-winning producer of The Crown, Andy Harries. Their stories, actionable advice, and recommendations will help your business thrive and fuel your life potential.

When we're kids, our parents tell us that being creative is fun, fun, fun. But when you decide to turn art into your career, whether that's painting, writing, drawing, or sculpting Edgar Allan Poe out of earthworms, that's when things get tough. In this insightful and heartfelt guide, artist and speaker Phil Hansen shares his hard-won wisdom from the front lines of life as a professional creative. Hansen provides advice for the difficult moments - the slumps, the creative blocks, the times when something you love doesn't resonate with the world - and gives you the pep talk you need....

Most of the conventional productivity advice you'll find in the soft business section simply does not work for creative people. Surprisingly, to date there has not been a single book or audiobook that addresses the unique organisational challenges that artists face. This audiobook sets out to change that, and it addresses the myth that truly creative people are messy and that they need mess in order to create. Sheila Chandra applies her professional insights as a creative and organizing expert to the lives of other busy creative people in all disciplines.

Do you ever sense that you're not using your mind to its fullest potential? Being "stuck" means your brain is repeating the same neurological firing patterns again and again. It happens in business, relationships, personal goals, and mental health, over and over.

Why you should read this book: because it's full of wisdom, experiences, examples and entertaining stories drawn from Tony Hertz's 40-year beyond-all-reason passion for radio advertising - including links to 25 of the best radio spots you've ever heard. Because in today's visual/digital/online/mobile/social media/branded content consumed advertising business, radio remains a powerful and relevant way to reach millions of consumers all over the world. And Tony Hertz is uniquely qualified to give it the creative attention it deserves.

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。

Failure can ruin lives and families. There’s no denying it. It can destroy your health and obliterate your self-esteem. But it also holds a lot of value on the road to success. Failure Rules! walks you through five essential rules to help you pull value from any failure—as proven by Andrew Thorp King’s personal stories of dramatic, cascading failures in business, relationships, art, and life. Journey through key failure lessons from a wildly diverse set of successful entrepreneurs, creatives, and authentics.

This book uniquely identifies the five key emotions that prevent clients from reaching their full creative potential and provides coaches tools to help them overcome them, boosting their productivity as well as their ability to complete and promote their work and personal development. Accessible and personable, Rahti Gorfien interweaves stories from her personal life and private practice to alleviate the burden of blockages creatives generated by their own divergent thinking, unconscious conditioning, and memory.

You have heard it, "cash is king". I'm going to tell you this is not accurate. Margin is king. There is not a durable source of cash without margin. Unless from an outside source, cash in your business primarily comes from the margin. We can sell assets to generate cash. However, if you sell all your business assets, you likely don't have a business remaining.

In Start More Than You Can Finish, writer, artist, and entrepreneur Becky Blades offers a powerful new mindset for our modern world: acting on more ideas makes us happier—and reveals our highest creativity. She empowers listeners to become "stARTists"—initiators with a bias for action and the courage to ignite ideas—and introduces the concept of "stARTistry. Start More Than You Can Finish challenges the tropes our dads, moms, and third-grade teachers told us about finishing. In today's world, we must, in fact, start more than we can finish.

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.

Resilient leaders rise: Empower yourself and your team to conquer every challenge. Have you ever experienced a moment when the pace of the world seemed to surpass your ability to keep up? As a leader, the demands of navigating through challenging times can feel utterly overwhelming. The business landscape is evolving at an unprecedented rate, presenting new challenges and uncertainties every day.

「営業現場の生産性向上」の最適解はAIサポート。「営業×AI」の新時代が到来！「企業分析」「リストアップ」「ターゲティング」「提案資料作成」「商談の相談役」etc

Imagine having at your disposal an easy-to-understand, straightforward process that can transform your sales career overnight. The Art of Professional Sales delivers precisely that—a simple, actionable roadmap to selling like a pro.

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.

Marty Strong's direct and compelling message is focused on business, but in truth, its leadership tenets are agnostic as to industry, marketplace, private, or public setting. This is not a textbook. It is a personal conversation between a high-performance business leader and professionals searching for actionable insights that deliver results. Be Nimble provides mentorship, tips, tools, and useful examples to help drive home its valuable leadership insights. Marty Strong has an accomplished leadership career spanning four decades.

「オリエンは信じない」「顧客に憑依する」「タグライン、コンセプトワードを決める」「プレゼンはしない」　　　他日本に『角ハイボール』ブームを巻き起こし、

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）