Creative Careers

Bob Johansen lays out the core concepts of full-spectrum thinking and reveals the role that digital media - including gameful engagement, big-data analytics, visualization, blockchain, and machine learning - will play in facilitating and enhancing it. He offers examples of broader spectrums and new applications in a wide range of areas that will become possible first, then mandatory. This visionary book provides powerful ways to make sense of new opportunities and see the world as it really is.

What’s the difference between mentorship and sponsorship? Mentorship involves helping a mentee change their behavior, while sponsorship involves changing how other people see a protégé. Sponsorship is as important, if not more, than mentorship in determining who gets ahead, making it a more effective way to promote social equality and inclusion in the workplace. Chow shows us that a paradigmatic shift to sponsorship need not be scary. Most of us already engage in sponsorship in our personal and professional networks; we just haven’t had a name for what we are doing.

In Be the One, author and speaker Justin Prince shares a roadmap, an instruction manual, that lays out simple but powerful steps you can take—today—to redesign your future and live an unforgettable life. Regardless of your roots, your background, your education, your experience, your resources, or your lack thereof.

Engaging users is essential to every area of online business... Discover everything you need to know to make sure that happens. Are you considering a career in UX design? Or maybe you collaborate with UX designers and don’t fully understand what it is they do…It’s a field that flummoxes many people because it’s such a fast-growing industry, and if you have no background in design, it can seem like an intimidating field to break into.

We all want to be a part of a thriving community. But, few of us know how to meaningfully contribute to the places where we live, work, learn, and play. Whether you dream of launching a community innovation center, want to enhance your town with colorful murals, or are simply looking to strengthen relationships with your neighbors, Designing Creative Communities is the guide for you. Award-winning community builder, Spud Marshall, coaches emerging leaders and community members alike through a simple process for how to transform your town into a creative place to call home.

For millennia, the wealthiest amongst us—including Warren Buffet, Elon Musk, and so many others—have known the secret to real wealth creation. Find out how you can access the same results in as little as 90 days. If you’ve had a job longer than a year, you probably wish there was a way to leapfrog ahead of where you are financially. With this life-changing approach, you can go from earning $50K per year to $500K with the stroke of a pen.

Shakti Gawain, a leader in the world consciousness movement, teaches us to view prosperity not as monetary gain but as fulfillment of the heart and soul.

The number of new ideas your organization can produce is a metric for its ability to generate novel solutions to any given problem. This ideaflow is the most crucial business metric that you've never considered. Every business problem is an idea problem. How well you can solve those problems is how well you and your business can perform, navigate uncertainty, and develop innovations.

Create the Future is an exciting guidebook for disruptive thinking, innovation, and change, paired with The Innovation Handbook, an updated version of the award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos. The bestseller is loaded with the same tactics, tools, and frameworks that Gutsche's team uses to accelerate 700 of the world's most powerful brands, billionaires, CEOs, and NASA.

Unlock your potential with The Beginner's Guide to UGC Creating: A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started as a UGC Creator. This comprehensive guide offers aspiring UGC creators a clear, actionable roadmap to success in the dynamic world of User-Generated Content (UGC).

In a world of hustle culture and burnout, women don’t want to lean in, they want to lie down. Now more than ever, women are looking to leave the corporate grind to break out into their own entrepreneurial ventures in a way that feeds their life rather than consumes it. But they don’t know exactly where to start. Kathleen Griffith has been in these exact shoes. When she set out to launch her own business she found that the women’s business space was big on “go, girl” messages, but short on the gritty details of actually building a business.

One of the hardest things to achieve in business is getting everyone on your team aligned to the same plan. Picture your business as a rowing team. Most have some people casually rowing, others out of sync, and even some rowing in the complete opposite direction. In Relentless Implementation, you will learn a tried and tested system that will get every person on your team vigorously rowing in the same direction.

Do you want to make money by creating delicious baked goods? If you want to work from home and get paid to bake, then this book is for you! Here’s the deal: You may love the idea of starting your own bakery, but you have no idea where to get started.

Everyone seems to understand that healthy organizations nurture flourishing individuals and societies—what Jesus desires for all. How can Christian business and ministry leaders create a positive organizational culture and identity? Justin Irving has spent twenty years studying, teaching, and reflecting on organizational leadership. Drawing wisdom from the Bible, contemporary leadership theory, and the insights of over two hundred executive leaders, Irving provides a theological framework that makes human flourishing the driving motivation for leading organizations well.

One of the biggest challenges for new managers is how to get the best out of each of their team members so they achieve superior results—and make you, the new manager, look good! In Bare Knuckle People Management authors Sean O’Neil and John Kulisek cut through the crap to show managers how to push their teams to success, not by following fluffy leadership training but by using the skills that got them promoted in the first place. Forget kumbayas or one-minute managing....

A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known.

Confused about LLCs, S-Corps, or what to file and when? You’re not alone—and one wrong move could trigger IRS penalties, audit flags, or even strip away your liability protection. This updated 2025 2-in-1 audiobook bundle is your shortcut to forming the right entity, avoiding costly traps, and building your business with confidence.

In this captivating, easy-to-follow audiobook, Edwin Louis Cole uncovers immutable principles that govern success. Join successful people worldwide who have discovered these keys to prospering at a higher level: The only thing that makes our life smaller and how to avoid it; choices determine conduct, character, and destiny; what three things do successful people master?; how to create an environment that attracts success; and the one principle that will always make you a leader.

A MacArthur Genius Grant recipient pioneers a radical change in how we interact with older loved ones, especially those experiencing dementia, as she introduces a proven method that uses the creative arts to bring light and joy to the lives of elders.

When it comes to running a business, the most important decisions a leader makes are not about products or locations - they're about people. For the past 33 years, Dee Ann Turner has been recruiting, training, and retaining some of the best employees in the restaurant business. Now she's ready to share her secrets on how to build, sustain, and grow an organizational culture that attracts world-class talent and consistently delights customers, no matter what your industry.