Artist Development Essentials: The Key to Structuring a Sustainable Profile in the Music Industry

Artist Development Essentials: The Key to Structuring a Sustainable Profile in the Music Industry

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As a constantly evolving and developing industry, the music business environment continues to establish new standards in terms of operational efficiency, dynamics between the different parties involved in the professional cycles, and constructing and performing methodologies in the process of achieving the desired results that all the participants in the music world have to adapt to in order to establish a sustainable career.
Hence, the main purpose of this book is to provide practical advice suitable to both aspiring music professionals and artists that need detailed guidance in the process of developing the basis of a fruitful, promising, and sustainable profile, not only in terms of business performance, but psychologically as well.

Powerful Performance: How to Be Influential, Ethical, and Successful in Business

Powerful Performance: How to Be Influential, Ethical, and Successful in Business

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How do you empower yourself to maximize your impact? This book will show you how to do this ethically, using the nine key steps.
‧ Do you feel that your work and life should somehow be better than it is?
‧ Are you on a treadmill, doing things you don’t want to do, with no hope of getting off?
‧ Do you ? nd it hard to say what you want or even to know what you want?
‧ Are you intimidated by those in authority, whoever they are?
If so, then Powerful Performance is for you.
Join Mark Eyre on a journey to discover how you can be both ethical and powerful, and that it doesn’t have to be a choice between them, in business or in life. Through reading the in- sights and case studies in this book and completing the self- diagnostic exercises, you will learn the nine steps to ethical power. Mastering these steps will enable you to stand your ground and achieve your full potential.

Creating a Culture for Information Systems Success, Second Edition

Creating a Culture for Information Systems Success, Second Edition

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In the era of disruptive technology, the dilemma of why a particular information system encountered unanticipated resistance and never met expectations is still considered an emerging issue. While this context has been intensively studied, we still lack evidence on how this organizational context is affecting the success of information systems from a managerial action perspective. This type of managerial involvement is often neglected to the extent that it becomes a major obstacle to organizational performance.
The objective of Creating a Culture for Information Systems Success is to assist CIOs and IT managers on how to use their managerial actions to create a suitable cultural environment in the organization that leads to a successful and sustainable implementation of information systems function. The book provides guidelines for managers on how to create this organizational context, measure it, and make sure it leads to a successful implementation and use of information systems. It carefully illustrates its main theme by providing examples and cases to explain how the behavioral context of an organization led by its managers and executives would lead to the success of the information systems function.

The Option Strategy Desk Reference: An Essential Reference for Option Traders

The Option Strategy Desk Reference: An Essential Reference for Option Traders

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Options are the fastest growing trading venue offered today. Option trading volume grew 22% in 2018 alone—faster than any other trading venue. Why? Because traders are learning how options are statistically predictable and orderly. And they provide extensive financial leverage and strategic flexibility. When compared to buying and selling stock, futures, or foreign exchange currency pairs, it’s not even a contest!
For just a few hundred dollars, an option trader can control tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of stock, ETF shares, a financial index, or futures contracts. And options offer dozens of trading strategies designed to exploit current market conditions. This book contains 78 option trading strategies, which provides readers with an option toolbox that fits every market condition, i.e., bullish, neutral, or bearish. No other financial instrument offers this flexibility and no other trading venue can provide the same steady financial return week in and week out.

Business Decision-Making: Streamlining the Process for More Effective Results, Second Edition

Business Decision-Making: Streamlining the Process for More Effective Results, Second Edition

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How do executives make decisions? Are their decisions conscious or unconscious? Can they explain each decision they make?What tools can they use to improve their decision-making process? These are some of the questions this book addresses.
During the past 35 years, as an entrepreneur and senior executive of several medium-sized Canadian hi-tech businesses, the author noticed that his decision-making processes were often based either on experience or on advice received from colleagues. Seldom were the decisions based on formal or informal academic-based methods. There is no substitute for years of experience in any human endeavor. However, tapping into some of the methods and lessons learned from personal experience can result in useful principles for others to follow. These principles are very useful, especially for entrepreneurs interested in building their businesses or executives looking for some additional help in acquiring a better decision-making mousetrap.

Adaptive Project Planning

Adaptive Project Planning

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Despite claims to the contrary, there is no single approach to planning a project, but for a given project, there is a best one. This book takes you through many planning situations you will meet. The authors use stories of real projects to show how planning decisions alter depending on the project context. They discuss how resource-constrained planning differs from end-date schedule planning and look at what is different between cost-constrained plans and time b oxing. The text explores why you must plan when using agile approaches, how to approach the planning in stakeholder complex projects, and how to plan for innovation.
For project managers, getting involved with increasingly complex projects, it’s all about developing your judgment. The crucial judgments remain how to plan and structure a project. Through the exploration of many types of projects and the introduction of models and an approach to planning this book will aid your journey into high performance project management.

Temperatism, Volume II: Doing Good Through Business With a Social Conscience

Temperatism, Volume II: Doing Good Through Business With a Social Conscience

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Temperatism is more than a bleeding heart version of the capitalist ideal. Its purpose is to tackle key injustices and social inequality that are symptoms of the capitalist market system. By focusing on an agenda of doing good, temperatism seeks to reduce the level of elitism and social exclusion, that capitalism claims are inevitable, by sharing access to resources and ensuring that all individuals have the opportunity to exercise their talent potential. With the world economy in flux and globalism under pressure from populist politicians finding a new way to think about business and doing good is significant at this point in history. The hurt and pain that inequality inflicts on individuals and groups in society through exclusion and neglect is in conflict with our natural sense of affinity, collaboration and our intrinsic sense of fair play and justice. The dysfunction that we are currently experiencing in our society is as a direct result of the inequality within our society.
Temperatism is based on the idea that humanity has the potential to co-operate, collaborate, assist and contribute to the greater good. The questions discussed in Volume 2 explore how replacing the profit motive with a doing good motive makes it possible to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges including reducing poverty, improving access to health and education, defending human rights, and protecting the environment. Organizations with a social conscience will leave a legacy of which they can be rightly proud, shifting business from being the center of society’s problems to being its savior.

Disaster Risk Management: Case Studies in South Asian Countries

Disaster Risk Management: Case Studies in South Asian Countries

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The key features of this book include (i) the adoption of critical and multidisciplinary approaches in discussing disaster-related problems and emerging issues and (ii) the provision of insights into the approaches to address the challenges and issues of disaster risk management. The different stakeholders, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers will acquire a fuller and richer understanding of the various issues related to disaster risk management.
The editors take pride in acknowledging the role of the Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance, (NAPSIPAG) in making the present book possible. NAPSIPAG is the largest governance research network in the Asia Pacific region, which has been organizing an annual international meeting of administrators, academia, and non- state bodies where regional scholars critically deliberate with international governance experts. This is a process through which many young and upcoming scholars are also trained and academic brilliance is generated. NAPSIPAG has also helped the international policy organizations to have a better understanding of the region through a local lens of Asiatic anthropology, ethnography, and culture of administration. The book is an out- come of the academic and practitioners’ discourses generated mainly by NAPSIPAG members.

Business Report Guides: Research Reports and Business Plans

Business Report Guides: Research Reports and Business Plans

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This book offers tactics for creating business plans as well as research reports. Readers will find guides for planning research projects; writing proposals; identifying major findings; drawing conclusions; and using them to recommend appropriate actions—along with citing sources, numbering pages, and displaying visuals. The book examines business plans—why entrepreneurs need them, the objectives and contents of business plans, and how-to guides for each part.
Business Report Guides can be your go-to source for years to come. Reading through it in a couple of hours, you can gain information for immediate use. Keep it handy and refer to it often when reporting research or when planning a new business or altering an existing one.

Business Report Guides: Routine and Nonroutine Reports and Policies, Procedures, and Instructions

Business Report Guides: Routine and Nonroutine Reports and Policies, Procedures, and Instructions

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This book includes reports that managers originate often, reports they may create occasionally, and organizational policies, procedures, and work instructions. Inside, the reader will discover guides for creating over 20 diverse reports; designing report forms; planning, writing, and formatting narrative reports; producing digital and print employee manuals; and locating the service providers and software that can improve your reports’ cost-effectiveness. A crisp writing style, bullet points, and many authentic examples and visuals convey essential information quickly. Each chapter summary includes checklists. Business Report Guides gives ample information to apply instantly. It also works as a handy reference for use throughout your career.