Why Writing A Good Mission Statement Can Be Difficult
There’s a tonnage of information online about the magic of writing a mission statement. For example, in the Hollywood film Jerry Maguire, career and business insights are realized as Maguire struggles to define his life-changing document. For an aspiring entrepreneur, a good mission statement is like a road map or blueprint for achieving goals and dreams. […]
Update: Niche Creativity Mission Statement
Revised for 2016. .Niche Creativity curates educational information, digital and print resource training materials for career seekers obtaining insights on artistic and entrepreneurial career paths as well as virtual consulting to educators working in secondary and post-secondary education. Views: 21
Update: Blog and Book Revision
Murphy’s Law and Gravity Since May 9, I have been on restricted physical activity after trip and fall involving a heavy package and my two left feet. .. So the newly revised edition of MusicBiz Notes will be uploaded in June. And Finding Your Niche 2016 has been rescheduled for September. New blog content will be […]
Update: When New Blog Posts Will Resume…
On May 26, new content will appear on this blog. This break will allow for completion of the Finding Your Niche book revision for 2016. This decision was reached yesterday after tech support admitted that they too were in the midst of a tech glitch and could not step in to troubleshoot until their tools were […]
Updates: Computer Quiz Post, Book Revision, And File Conversion Misery
=– Three new paragraphs have been added to the end of the post link below…y. 2. March-April: Converting files proved challenging due to compatibilit issues after an upgrade. One final tech sessionthis week should resolve the problem.. So the new target date for completion of Finding Your Nicherevisions 2016 is this coming month. New upgrade Quick […]
Prince: Beyond the Music: Entrepreneur, Activist, Humanitarian
Originally published in April 2016 this post has been updated with an amazing overview of Prince’s philosophy from Linkedin and an archival news video of the childhood prince.
Control your music…Using creative talent to build economic prosperity for self and community was the philosophy the music legend espoused for aspiring musicians.
Prince, Rodgers, Nelson –As fans pay tribute and download the icon’s tunes, aspiring artists would do well to track down and study Prince’s opinions about technology and the changing nature of the music business, and what he believed artists needed to do to avoid being enslaved in an industry that often fails to compensate fairly many members.
Sources
Linkedin.com. Michael Edwards, April 21, 2016
What I learned from Prince…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-learned-from-prince-leadership-michael-edwards/
CBS.com rare footage of Prince interview as a child during a teacher strike. April 3, 2022.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/prince-rare-footage-1970/
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Why A Star Violinist Helps Musicians in Need:From Mozart to Metallica
z The amazing story of a former child prodigy who never forgot her humble upbringing and now uses her musical talent to help disadvantaged musicians globally. References PBS. Newshour.org Rachel Barton Pine http://tinyurl.com/j5tljn9 Global HeartStrings http://www.rebf.org/ghs.html Views: 17
Tips, Resources, and Gossip About the Business Side of Writing
Two panels of interest to aspiring writers at the recent Los Angeles Times Festival of Books … A publishing panel of industry professionals underscores how writers are depending on social media skills to promote their work. Q and A A panel of authors who specialze in the biography genre.. The challenging nature of the genre and how […]
How an Academic Used the Creative Arts to Transform Dry Anthropology Topics into Interesting Reading for the Public
Do not be fooled by Infrastructure, the less than exciting title of a panel discussion at this past weekend’s Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. And though rust was the riveting ad copyused to lure in droves of viewers, the forum of three authors offered an array of humerous, insightful, thought-provoking sometimes alarming bits of information about rusty […]
Why A Federal Prosecutor Changed Careers After a Traumatic Incident
Lawyers leave the profession and become entrepreneurs or pursue creative paths for reasons often related to burnout, but professor Paul Butler had a different personal experience that forced him to rethink his career path when he was a federal prosecutor. Harvard graduate and author of Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice, professor Butler […]