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Readers will gain vital and accurate knowledge about the music business, how musicians get paid, the legal framework for business, and will learn to recognize and leverage opportunities through overcoming the inevitable obstacles to success in a rapidly-changing industry.The author offers valuable insights into the niche readers might fill with their career, and discover their unique path to success. Readers will come away with a greater understanding of the scope and demands of the music and entertainment industry.

This book is for anyone who wants to achieve better personal and organizational effectiveness and fruitful business relationships.It is designed to give both the theoretical knowledge and the tools for action to change your organization's power dynamics. To operate in a global environment that is increasingly relational than transactional, it is vital to cultivate globally competitive leaders to deal with ongoing change and challenges. The Power of Belonging addresses these challenges faced by leaders today, both when influencing and achieving organizational goals.This is also a book for individuals too, because we cannot define ourselves by single dimensions-we are a synthesis of our backgrounds, experiences and philosophies. Thus, the most challenging lesson to learn is that belonging will remain a puzzle until we find that it has a unique dwelling place-that we must first profoundly belong to ourselves. So are you ready to be a change agent? Great then this book is for you!

This book introduces capacity management, describes cash flow dynamics, and offers ideas about how to manage both Business leaders rely on accounting data such as profit and calculated costs as a guide to whether they are making money. Should they? Accounting was designed to report financial performance not model cash flow. Accruals can disconnect cash flow from the timing and extent to which it occurs. Statements of cash flow do not provide insight into what was bought and how efficiently it was used. Costs and profits are not absolute, they change based on the model you use to calculate them. To manage cash, you must manage what you buy and how effectively you use it. The largest expenditure for most companies is capacity; space, labor, materials, equipment, and technology. Unless you model and manage capacity effectively, you will not achieve the cash flow results you seek. This book introduces capacity management, describes cash flow dynamics, and offers ideas about how to manage both. After reading it, you be able to see, understand, and manage cash flow as never before.

Recently, large parts of the world faced record high temperatures-another item on a long list of warning signs about the climate. This book is for the reader interested in having a better understanding of the nature and causes of climate change and the measures being undertaken.Global Climate Change suggests success is unlikely and to prevent catastrophe, more radical and uncomfortable actions will be needed. Many groups in society (e.g. governments, economies, businesses, public services) will need to undertake such actions to mitigate climate change and deal with its consequences. This book provides guidance about what these actions will involve.

Good project decisions result in successful careers and profitable companies. Bad decisions can be costly and cause operational downtime, may hurt employee morale, and impact customers and suppliers. Making a good decision has become very difficult because of increasing operating complexity and less marketplace predictability. Because of this: employers rate critical thinking and decision making as a top essential skill.Business problems are complex - so why do we continue to use a standard one-dimensional approach to solve complex, risky, and unpredictable problems?This book takes a novel but practical, multi-dimensional approach to making value-creating project decisions-decisions which use less resources to produce maximum value, including: Link company strategy and goals to project concepts, How to assess which projects produce value, Risk, Make or buy project criteria, Service based project decisions.This book is intended for project managers, supply chain professionals, and operationally focused roles for individuals having responsibility for successfully delivering projects and want to take charge of their career.

Companies like Theranos, Enron, and the Bernie L. Madoff Investment Securities Company (BLMIS) crashed and burned when their founder's used fraud, deceit, and corruption for short term goals and stock price spikes. Readers will explore the pitfalls of bad ethical practices and learn how to be Values-based Leaders.The book focuses on six themes: Corporate CultureEmployee loyalty and engagementMotivations for improper behaviorGoing inside the mind of a whistleblowerThe importance of compliance programsWhite-collar crime for individualsIt's written in a practical voice, sprinkled with pop-culture references from movies, songs and tv shows and follows the life cycle of work, mostly from a U.S. perspective.Each lesson begins with an Executive Summary, acting as a "teaser outline." These are followed by chapters including historical background, cautionary tales, and applied ethical solutions.Readers will learn why good ethics is good business.

Whether you are a Project Manager just starting your career or a seasoned expert trying to introduce more collaboration into your organization, this book is for you!This practical guide is full of collaboration templates and techniques for every type of project at any stage. It will give you ways to reduce the chaos of a startup and improve your project team's morale.Starting with project initiation, moving through planning, executing, and ultimately closing, and reflecting on the project are all covered. Each phase is supplemented with ways to gather input from your team, and continuously improve project processes in your organization all while ensuring your project meets expectations.All these tools and techniques are tailored to be used with Miro - the leading collaboration tool available. That said they can be used in any collaboration setting. You can utilize these techniques wherever you are in your project by jumping into the appropriate phase or by what appeals to you and your team.

Tune-Up Your Small Business is the ideal guide for small business owners who want to achieve their personal and professional goals by making their businesses more successful.This book focuses on making regular, small changes that can lead to significant improvements over time. Through stories of small businesses that have grown by following the advice in this book, it offers inspiration and practical advice. Dr Sleeman provides easy-to-follow steps to help you define what makes your business unique, communicate effectively with your customers, and present your business accurately online.The book also advises on how to get better by listening to customers, ensuring your team delivers the best service, and discovering what customers are looking to purchase. You will find simple advice on how to price your services and reduce expenses without losing value.This book is a step-by-step guide to developing your business steadily and effectively.

Whether you're considering launching your own business or managing spinout ventures within your organization, this is your essential guide to the journey from employment to entrepreneurship.For many aspiring entrepreneurs, the path to entrepreneurship begins within the walls of established corporations. This book is uniquely tailored for employees and executives in the private sector either experiencing entrepreneurial ambitions, or dealing with them in their organizations. Whether you're considering launching your own business or managing spinout ventures within your organization, this is your essential guide to the journey from employment to entrepreneurship.Delve into the choices that employee entrepreneurs make and the consequences they face. If you work in or run an organization, gain insights into the processes and critical decision-making moments through real-life spinout stories like Chevrolet, Apple, Zoom, Zillow, Intel, and Electronic Arts.Spinouts have a distinct advantage, which comes from what they inherit from their parent firms. Their advantage hinges on what they absorb or carry forward from their parent firms. While some parent companies actively support and cultivate their spinouts, leveraging them to bolster their reputation, others adopt a more defensive approach. Learn from parent firm cases like Fairchild, Palantir, AstraZeneca, Nokia, and Paypal.Explore the controversial, yet often successful path of spinout ventures!

The Negotiation Edge is a two-part book that will make you a better negotiator.The first half is a negotiating tutorial complete with checklists and worksheets. It details on how-to engage, prepare, select a leader, build a support team, identify roles, set communication guidelines, instruct meeting behavior, read the other side, and determine the best strategies (compete collaborate compromise) using a three-act negotiating structure.The second half of the book is the author's twenty-five best and worst negotiating experiences with his insightful lessons learned with Walmart, Amazon, Target, NFL, NBA, NHL, PBS, National Geographic, BBC, Netflix, Warner Bros., Disney, Universal, Fox, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate, Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, and Martha Stewart.