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Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry
by Gareth MurphyCowboys and Indies is nothing less than the first definitive history of the recording industry on both sides of the Atlantic.From the invention of the earliest known sound-recording device in 1850s Paris to the CD crash and digital boom today, author and industry insider Gareth Murphy takes readers on an immensely entertaining and encyclopedic ride through the many cataclysmic musical, cultural, and technological changes that shaped a century and a half of the industry.This invaluable narrative focuses especially on the game changers---the label founders, talent scouts, and legendary A&R men. Murphy highlights:· Otto Heinemann's pioneer label Okeh, which spread blues and jazz "race" records across America· how one man, Henry Speir, discovered nearly all the Delta blues legends (Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson) · Sam Phillips's seminal work with Chess and Sun Records· John Hammond's discoveries (Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen) · the behind-the-scenes players of the British Invasion· Clive Davis, Ahmet Ertegun, David Geffen, and the corporate music machine· the Machiavellian moves of punk impresario Malcolm McLaren (Sex Pistols)· Chris Blackwell's triumphs for Island Records (Bob Marley, U2)· Sylvia Robinson and Tom Silverman, the hip-hop explorers behind the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, and Afrika Bambaataa...and much, much more. Murphy also offers a provocative look at the future through the ruminations of such vanguard figures as Martin Mills (4AD, XL Recordings, Matador, Rough Trade) and genre-busting producer Rick Rubin (Run-D.M.C., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Johnny Cash).Drawing from memoirs, archives, and more than one hundred exclusive interviews with the legends of the record industry, including the founders and CEOs of Atlantic, Chrysalis, Virgin, A&M, Sub Pop, and Sire, this book reveals the secret history behind the hit-making craft. Remarkable in scope and impressive in depth, Cowboys and Indies chronicles the pioneers who set the stylus on the most important labels and musical discoveries in history.
Cowboys, Indians, and Gunfighters: The Story of the Cattle Kingdom
by Albert MarrinAn action-packed story of the days when ranchers vied with the native peoples to rule the plains of North America. Marrin's accurate, carefully researched text makes it a valuable reference tool as well.
Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data
by Boris Groysberg Sarah L. Abbott Annelena LobbCowen Inc.’s broker-dealer, Cowen and Company, LLC, boasted a number of analysts who had made prescient stock calls on the basis of creative data analysis. Now Cowen Inc. had opened a new subsidiary, Kyber, which would attempt to monetize new data science products. Robert Fagin, head of research, had to consider what Kyber’s risks were, even as the unit uncovered the possibility for new revenue streams. How could Cowen continue to exploit its competitive advantage with data?
Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data
by Boris Groysberg Sarah L. Abbott Annelena LobbProfessor Boris Groysberg, Research Associate Sarah Abbott, and Case Researcher Annelena Lobb (Case Research & Writing Group) prepared this case. It was reviewed and approved before publication by a company designate. Funding for the development of this case was provided by Harvard Business School and not by the company. HBS cases are developed solely as the basis for class discussion. Cases are not intended to serve as endorsements, sources of primary data, or illustrations of effective or ineffective management.
Cowgirl Power: How to Kick Ass in Business and Life
by Gay GaddisKick Ass Your WayAs the owner of one of the largest woman-owned advertising agencies in the U.S., Gay Gaddis knows a thing or two about empowerment. Gay's insights are rooted in the spirited strength of the real cowgirl heroines of the 1920s and '30s-gutsy risk -takers in everything they did. In Cowgirl Power, these cowgirls are celebrated as a metaphor for the power we all have to achieve far more than we think.Whether your goal is to start a family, own a business, advance your career, organize community outreach, or run for office, it all comes down to power: knowing how to develop it and not being afraid to take it when it comes your way.Gay's book and Cowgirl Power Toolkit will help you blaze a path to success, on your terms:Taking responsibility for yourselfBuilding your own competenceFinding your assertivenessDesigning your own lifeBuilding a kick-ass cultureRecognizing good ideasBecoming a fearless leaderCowgirl Power is not about changing you. You are just fine. It's about understanding your strengths, building on them, and unlockingyour power to kick ass-your way. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica; color: #500d50} span.s1 {font-kerning: none}
Coworker Hell
by Freeman HallBackstabbers and Slackers and Mismanagers, Oh My!On the battlefields of retail hell, sometimes your "allies" turn out to be your worst enemies . . . When managers can't run their stores and when coworkers refuse to actually work, shifts in retail go from bad to hellish and fast. There's no one to turn to when the customers get mean, and there's no one in to play defense when patrons complain.In these 28 hilarious-but-true stories, RetailHellUnderground.com bloggers pick their bones with the worst coworkers in memory - from lunch-stealing liars to power-hungry managers to snide corporate reps and more! It's time these retail slaves - and even the customers - gave them what they really deserve!
Coworking Space: Geschäftsmodell für Entrepreneure und Wissensarbeiter
by Mathias SchürmannDynamik und Schnelllebigkeit prägen unsere Arbeitswelt wie nie zuvor. Berufsbilder verändern sich, neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit entstehen; Coworking ist das neue Schlagwort. Coworking Spaces bieten flexible und offene Strukturen, um sich zu vernetzen und Geschäftsideen zu etablieren. Sie sind damit nicht nur für Start-ups und Freiberufler geeignet, sondern auch für Manager und Unternehmer, die das Potenzial von Coworking Spaces ergänzend nutzen wollen. Dieses Buch schafft einen Überblick über das Geschäftsmodell Coworking Space und beleuchtet das Thema aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. Mathias Schürmann zeigt, wie es um die Stärken und Schwächen im Vergleich zu bisher gängigen Arbeitsmodellen bestellt ist und welche Entwicklungen zu erwarten sind. Fallbeispiele verdeutlichen, welche unterschiedlichen Ausrichtungen von Coworking Spaces in der Praxis zu finden sind.
Coworking als Revolution der Arbeitswelt: von Corporate Coworking bis zu Workation
by Simon WertherDieses Buch „Coworking als Revolution der Arbeitswelt – von Corporate Coworking bis zu Workation” erklärt Ihnen das moderne Arbeits- und Lebenskonzept Coworking. Dabei reichen die Perspektiven von Corporate Coworking innerhalb von Firmen über Coworking Spaces im ländlichen Raum bis hin zu Workation als Kombination aus Coworking und Urlaub.Im Zentrum des Buchs stehen fundierte Perspektiven sowie umfassende Erfahrungsberichte von Expertinnen und Experten aus Hochschulen, Coworking Spaces und Verbänden. Sie erfahren somit nicht nur was Coworking wirklich auszeichnet, sondern auch welche Vorteile und Besonderheiten, aber auch welche Stolpersteine, damit einhergehen.Zielgruppen: Coworking und Workation ist von besonderer Bedeutung für alle, die sich beruflich mit modernen Arbeits- und Lebenskonzepten wie New Work auseinandersetzen, u.a. Personalverantwortliche, Kommunalvertreter, Geschäftsführer, Vorstandsmitglieder, Studierende und Hochschullehrende. Zum Herausgeber: Prof. Dr. Simon Werther ist an der Hochschule München als Professor für Leadership tätig. Er beschäftigt sich mit Führung im Wandel, New Work und modernen Arbeits- und Lebensformen wie Coworking und Workation. Darüber hinaus ist er Mitgründer des Münchner Startups HRinstruments, das digitale Feedbacktools entwickelt.
Coworking und Coworking Spaces im Wandel durch Covid19 (Studien zum nachhaltigen Bauen und Wirtschaften)
by Luisa MittagDiese Forschungsarbeit setzt sich mit dem Einfluss der Corona-Pandemie auf die Einstellungen der Coworker am Beispiel der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar auseinander.Hierbei wird auf Basis einer empirischen Studie erforscht, inwieweit sich die Nutzergruppe von Coworking Spaces sowie deren Nutzungsverhalten und Einstellungen im Zeitraum der Pandemie (2020-2021) modifiziert haben.Einen weiteren Untersuchungsschwerpunkt bildet die Fragestellung, welcher Trend sich nach der Pandemie im Hinblick auf das zukünftige Nutzungsverhalten moderner Arbeitsplatzmodelle wie Coworking Space, Homeoffice und Unternehmensarbeitsplatz abzeichnet. Neben allgemeinen Grundlagen zu dem Geschäftsmodell „Coworking“ verschafft die Arbeit einen umfassenden Überblick über den tiefgreifenden Wandel der Arbeitswelt und den damit einhergehenden (Mega-)Trends.
Cox Communications, Inc.
by Thomas R. Eisenmann Jonathan GibbonsCox Communications, the third largest U.S. cable television system operator, is confronting strategy decisions in mid-2004. Cox managers must decide whether to speed its deployment of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which offers capital and operating costs savings compared to the traditional circuit-switched technologies Cox has used to offer phone service. Cox has had great success in attacking incumbent phone companies with bundles that include TV, high-speed Internet, and telephone services. However, VoIP deployment will be capital intensive, and Wall Street is pressuring Cox, like other cable operators, to deliver free cash flow. At the same time, cable operators have been losing market share to satellite TV providers, and Cox managers must decide whether to accelerate the capital-intensive deployment of digital video recorders (DVRs) to address this competitive threat. Can Cox afford to offer both VoIP and DVRs? A rewritten version of an earlier case.
Cox Communications, Inc.--1999
by George Chacko Peter TufanoThis case focuses on how much external financing a firm needs and what securities the firm should issue to raise this financing. Cox Communications is a major player in the cable industry, which is consolidating due to technological changes/capabilities brought about by the Internet. The corporate treasury of Cox Communications must decide how much external financing is necessary to finance a series of intra-industry acquisitions that Cox has recently undertaken. The choices are plain-vanilla equity, debt, asset sales, and a new equity-linked derivative known as FELINE PRIDES, offered by Merrill Lynch. The treasurer and his team must make this decision facing the usual market constraints. There are also some special constraints, including maintaining financial flexibility for further acquisitions and limiting the dilution of Cox's largest shareholder, who owns nearly 70% of the firm.
Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age (Witness to History)
by Benjamin F. AlexanderThe engrossing tale of the first audacious protest march on Washington—a precursor of the Occupy movement.In 1893, after a major British bank failure, a run on U.S. gold reserves, and a late-June stock-market crash, America was in the throes of a serious economic depression. Unemployment rose, foreclosures climbed, and popular unrest mounted. By the following spring, businessman and Populist agitator Jacob S. Coxey was fed up with government inactivity in the face of the crisis. With the help of eccentric showman Carl Browne, he led a group of several hundred unemployed wage earners, small farmers, and crossroads merchants on a march from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to present a "petition in boots" for government-financed jobs building and repairing the nation’s roads. On May 1, the Coxeyites descended on the center of government, where Coxey attempted to deliver a speech on the Capitol steps. The police attacked, a melee ensued, and Coxey and Browne spent a month in jail. Meanwhile, other Coxey-inspired contingents were on their way east from places as far away as San Francisco and Portland. Some of them even hijacked trains along the way. Who was Coxey, and what motivated him—along with the angry marchers who joined his cause? What did other Americans think of the protesters? Was there ever any chance that the protesters’ demands would be met? Where did the agitators fit in with the politics of their day, and how did their actions jibe with the other labor-related protests happening that year? In this concise and gripping narrative, Benjamin F. Alexander contextualizes the march by vividly describing the misery wrought by the Panic of ’93. Alexander brings both Coxey and his fellow leaders to life, along with the reporters and spies who traveled with them and the diverse group of captivated newspaper readers who followed the progress of the marches and train heists.Coxey’s Army explains how the demands of the Coxeyites—far from being the wild schemes of a small group of cranks—fit into a larger history of economic theories that received serious attention long before and long after the Coxey march. Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty years later, emerged as the New Deal.
Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age (Witness to History)
by Benjamin F. AlexanderA colorful study of the nineteenth century march on Washington, the man who led it, and the national sensation that prefigured the New Deal.In 1893, America was suffering a serious economic depression. Fed up with government inactivity, Populist agitator Jacob S. Coxey led hundreds of unemployed laborers on a march from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. Their intention was to present a “petition in boots” for government-financed jobs building and repairing the nation’s roads. On May 1, the Coxeyites descended on the center of government, where a melee ensued between them and the police. Soon, other Coxey-inspired contingents were on their way east from places as far away as San Francisco and Portland. Some even hijacked trains along the way.In Coxey’s Army, Benjamin F. Alexander brings Coxey and his fellow leaders to life, along with the reporters and spies who traveled with them and the captivated readers who followed the story in the newspapers. Alexander explains how the Coxeyite demands fit into a larger history of economic theory and the labor movement. Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what emerged decades later as the New Deal.
Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens
by Ted ConoverDisguised as an illegal alien, the author explores the outlaw realm of illegal immigration at the Mexican-American border and describes the role of the coyotes--mercenaries who sneak Mexican laborers into America
Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice
by Craig Reinarman Harry G. Levine<p>Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in its historical context―as the latest in a long line of demonized drugs―and it examines the crack scare as a phenomenon in its own right. Most important, it uses crack and the crack scare as windows onto America's larger drug and drug policy problems. <p>Written by a team of veteran drug researchers in medicine, law, and the social sciences, this book provides the most comprehensive, penetrating, and original analysis of the crack problem to date. It reviews the social pharmacology of crack and offers rich ethnographic case studies of crack binging, addiction, and sales. It explores crack's different impacts on whites, blacks, the middle class, and the poor, and explains why crack was always much less of a problem in other countries such as Canada, Australia, and The Netherlands. <p>Crack in America helps readers understand why the United States has the most repressive, expensive, and yet least effective drug policy in the Western world. It discusses the ways politicians and the media generated the crack scare as the centerpiece of the War on Drugs. It catalogues the costs of the War on Drugs for civil liberties, situates crack use and sales in the political economy of the inner cities in the 1980s, and shows how the drug war led to the most massive wave of imprisonment in U.S. history. Finally, it explains why the failures of drug prohibition have led to the emergence of the harm reduction movement and other opposition forces that are changing the face of U.S. drug policy.</p>
Crack the C-Suite Code: How Successful Leaders Make It To The Top
by Cassandra FrangosAn insider's guide to creating your own path to the corner office How can I reach the C-suite? That is the most common question Cassandra Frangos hears from the executives she coaches. Many aspire to reach the C-suite, but the typical paths to the top are hard to find and difficult to follow. In Crack the C-Suite Code, Frangos reveals the hidden dynamics for reaching C-suite. She offers expert guidance based on her experience as a consultant at Spencer Stuart and former head of global executive talent at Cisco, a company with 70,000 employees. Her deep research on the topic includes candid interviews with CEOs, hundreds of aspiring C-suite candidates, and the leading experts in the field. Frangos identifies four core paths you can follow to reach the C-suite: The Tenured Executive, The Free Agent, The Leapfrog Leader, and The Founder. To actively improve your chances for success, she presents: •Insider knowledge from current CEOs and well known executives•Guiding questions that clarify the risks and rewards associated with each path•Accelerators and derailers that either enhance or detract from your chances to succeed•Advice on how to leverage your experience, leadership brand, and mindset to help you land on the c-suite short list•Insight on how the evolving role of the CEO affects your strategy to reach the top A career playbook for anyone who aspires to the top spot, Crack the C-Suite Code features advice from successful C-level leaders, including Accompany's Amy Chang, Goldman Sachs' Edith Cooper, Nest's Yoki Matsuoka, Cisco's Chuck Robbins, and Corning's Wendell Weeks. These and other top leaders from a broad range of companies, including Microsoft, Google, and General Electric, tell the stories of their success and help aspiring executives crack the C-suite code.
Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup
by Judy RobinettCrack the Funding Code demystifies the world of angel investing, venture capital, and corporate funding and lays out a strategic pathway for any entrepreneur to secure funding fast.Lack of funding is one of the biggest reasons small businesses fail. In 2016 in the United States alone, more than 31 percent of small business owners reported that they could not access adequate capital, and the lack of capital prevented them from growing the business/expanding operations, increasing inventory, or financing increased sales. This book will show you how to find the money, create pitches that attract investors, and then structure fair, ethical deals that will bring them new sources of outside capital and invaluable professional advice. Crack the Funding Code gives you the broader perspective on: how funding works,how investors think,and what they need to hear to put their money where your mouth is.Every entrepreneur who reads this book will get easy-to-follow deal checklists, a roadmap of where and how to locate the best funding resources and top business mentors for their industry or geographical location, and a step-by-step process to create pitches that make their idea or business irresistible.
Cracked it!: How to solve big problems and sell solutions like top strategy consultants
by Olivier Sibony Bernard Garrette Corey PhelpsSolving complex problems and selling their solutions is critical for personal and organizational success. For most of us, however, it doesn’t come naturally and we haven’t been taught how to do it well. Research shows a host of pitfalls trips us up when we try: We’re quick to believe we understand a situation and jump to a flawed solution. We seek to confirm our hypotheses and ignore conflicting evidence. We view challenges incompletely through the frameworks we know instead of with a fresh pair of eyes. And when we communicate our recommendations, we forget our reasoning isn’t obvious to our audience. How can we do it better? In Cracked It!, seasoned strategy professors and consultants Bernard Garrette, Corey Phelps and Olivier Sibony present a rigorous and practical four-step approach to overcome these pitfalls. Building on tried-and-tested (but rarely revealed) methods of top strategy consultants, research in cognitive psychology, and the latest advances in design thinking, they provide a step-by-step process and toolkit that will help readers tackle any challenging business problem. Using compelling stories and detailed case examples, the authors guide readers through each step in the process: from how to state, structure and then solve problems to how to sell the solutions. Written in an engaging style by a trio of experts with decades of experience researching, teaching and consulting on complex business problems, this book will be an indispensable manual for anyone interested in creating value by helping their organizations crack the problems that matter most.
Cracked: How Telephone Operators Took on Canada’s Largest Corporation ... And Won
by Joan M. Roberts2015 Ontario Historical Society Alison Prentice Award — Winner 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated The story of the Bell Canada union drive and the phone operator strike that brought sweeping reform to women’s workplace rights. In the 1970s, Bell Canada was Canada’s largest corporation. It employed thousands of people, including a large number of women who worked as operators and endured very poor pay and working conditions. Joan Roberts, a former operator, tells the story of how she and a group of dedicated labour organizers helped to initiate a campaign to unionize Bell Canada’s operators. From the point of view of the workers and the organizers, Roberts tells an important story in Canada’s labour history. The unionization of Bell Canada’s operators was a huge victory for Canada’s working women. The victory at Bell established new standards for women in other so-called “pink-collar” jobs.
Cracking Complexity: NOW - The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything, From Anywhere, Fast
by David Benjamin David KomlosComplexity has met its match! Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way - they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one-at-a-time over months, sometimes even years and nearly always in a linear fashion. It's like setting a pot of water on "low" and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly intractable challenges that leaders bang their heads against for months - to get the metaphorical water to boil - you must generate a high amount of heat very quickly. In this book, the authors share their proven formula for dramatically shortening the process and solving an organization's toughest challenges in mere days.Fully updated to include highly successful and proven virtual methods and practices that have been used to solve real problems. This book serves up the mindset, steps and skills that you and your team will need to crack complexity, wherever you are in the world, so that you can find clarity and build momentum even in the most uncertain of times.
Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast
by David Benjamin David KomlosForeword by: Marshall Goldsmith, #1 NY Times bestselling author, Thinkers50-#1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the WorldComplexity has met its match! Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way - they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one-at-a-time over months, sometimes even years and nearly always in a linear fashion. It's like setting a pot of water on "low" and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly intractable challenges that leaders bang their heads against for months - to get the metaphorical water to boil - you must generate a high amount of heat very quickly. In this book, the authors share their proven formula for dramatically shortening the process and solving an organization's toughest challenges in mere days.
Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast
by David Benjamin David KomlosFor the first time, Davis Benjamin and David Komlos of Syntegrity share their cutting-edge, highly engaging step-by-step formula for cracking incredibly knotty and important challenges in mere days, while mobilizing those who must execute. Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith, #1 NY Times bestselling author, Thinkers50 - #1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the WorldComplexity has met its match! Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way - they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years, and nearly always in a linear fashion. It's like setting a pot of water on "low" and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly intractable challenges that leaders bang their heads against for months - to get the metaphorical water to boil - you must generate a high amount of heat very quickly. In this book, the authors share their proven formula for dramatically shortening the process and solving an organization's toughest challenges in mere days.
Cracking Complexity: The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just About Anything Fast
by David Benjamin David KomlosHow organizations can rapidly, practically, effectively and repeatedly deal with complexity. Solving complex issues in days.The revolutionary process at the heart of Cracking Complexity is backed by empirical research from the authors' work with world-leading companies whose experiences will serve as case-studies. Komlos and Benjamin's approach harnesses disparate views from inside and outside of an organization, including front-line employees, former competitors, theorists and disruptors around a big, messy problem to form a high-functioning team of people, a "mega-brain," that can see every side of a problem and identify the best solution(s) for it. Complex issues are solved in a matter of days, not months, not years, a time-frame supported by the authors' research and practice over three decades.(c)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Cracking Economics
by Tejvan PettingerAn easy-to-understand guide to the most difficult topics: Cracking Economics is a must-have for anyone looking to broaden their knowledge of the world of finance and the economy.