Career Management for the Creative Person.

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Summary: Career Management for the Creative Person
Review: At a point where I'm considering a career change, this book has been a great help. Lee's books are fun to read, and this one is also great! He puts in a lot of helpful tips, quizes, and lists. Being more "both-brain" than right brain makes no difference in the insight that this book provides to people wanting to know "why" they do what they do for a living. Put this book on your list of "must reads!"

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Summary: Creativity in unexpected places
Review: I work in a prison and for years have driven my supervisors crazy because I just can't seem to get the "chain of command" concept -- or working regular hours or just generally being left-brained. They keep me around because I keep coming up with good ideas. Fortunately, I'm in a position where I do have quite a bit of flexibility. This book will help me find ways to keep my supervisors happy by polishing out some of those habits that really make them gnash their teeth. I plan to recommend this to other creative people I know who work in the prison system, too, so we can keep on being creative and can continue to love our jobs.

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Summary: How to have it all
Review: In this exciting book, Author Lee Silber tells us, "You can have it all when it comes to a creative career--if you know how." And he gives us practical and applicable tips and techniques to help us know our deepest desires and talents and set our goals to achieve them. He shows us how to find our career niche and earn a living doing what we love. Career Management for the Creative Person helps us to overcome the challenges right brainers face and to make our creativity and unique nature work for us. We learn how. to market ourselves and our art and be our own boss in a field we enjoy.. . Silber gives us specific examples of well known people who overcame great obstacles. Dr. Seuss's books were rejected by 23 publishers and then sold 6 million copies. He shares his secrets of how to network, meet celebrities, use a personal touch, benefit from a Web page, find an agent if we choose to have one. He teaches us to prepare a modern resume, portfolio and cover letter. He explains how to handle an interview from either sides. . He discusses his successful promotions, how to find an unusual hook, target the right audience and connect with them.. The author includes great quotes: "I don' try to dance better than anyone else, only better than myself," Mikhail Baryshnikov. Lee's sense of humor makes the book fun to read. "Computers aren't intelligent. They only think they are." "The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane," Bette Davis. This book helps us realize that we are all creative and shows us how to use our unique creativity to find or create a fulfilling career. Any one with the courage to follow their dreams will love this book. Just follow Silber's advice, "Read the book and apply its easy to understand directions." What have we got to lose? The end By Maryanne Raphael, Writers World

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Summary: A Must Have Guide for Right-Brainers
Review: This book puts everything in perspective for Right-Brainers. You don't have to fit into a mold, you can be different and also productive. Lee makes you feel that is okay to take a different path to your destined goals. Without goals whether you are left-brained or a right-brained person the journey will be long and dubious. This book provides the outline necessary to truly get to know one-self and what you expect out of life and career. The techniques given are clear and realistic. The author states the process with humor and personal antidotes; this gives the reader a positive mental view that anything is possible. This book is a must read for any Creative along with Lee's other book Time Management for the Creative Person. With this winning combination, if the techniques are applied I believe you can be on your way to a very long profitable and most of all enjoyable career and life.

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Summary: This is the BEST career management book I have ever read!
Review: When I bought this book, I knew it was going to be interesting but I didn't know how much until I started reading it. It was so good I literally read it straight through in 2 days and I am now reading it a second time, more slowly.

I have read so many success books in the past that are interesting but just don't get me to do anything. There's no motivation. But this book got me motivated by asking lots of questions and really getting me involved in my own life. It made me think!

For the first time I am starting to understand myself and my life and I am starting to create a plan for my future. I can honestly say that this book is changing my life. I am so impressed with Lee Silber that I bought several of his other books without even seeing them. I can't wait to read them!

I would recommend this book to everyone who wants to do something with their life. Even if you don't consider yourself a creative person, read this book. I guarantee you will find lots of ideas that will change your life and you might find out you are more creative than you think.

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Summary: Career Management for the Creative Person
Review: Yes, Yes, this is a great book for right brained people. Lee Silber has a great style of writing, and has certainly done a great job at right brain traits and attributes. I really enjoyed this book, and then went on to order other books by Lee. Lee is a unique creative person. You won't believe how much this guy gets done in his life. Makes you envious. I wish I had his energy.