Having trouble navigating the treacherous waters of the business world? Uncertain how to go about achieving your life goals?Can This Elephant Curtsy on Cue? has the answers.In this hard-headed, but warm-hearted book, the author, an eighteen-year veteran in the entertainment business, delivers the practical advice you need through a series of illuminating personal anecdotes. In these stories, she reveals her best and worst business experiences and discusses the lessons to be learned. Weinstock has taken her hard-earned experiences and distilled them into a series of rules for conducting business productively and ethically.In this book, you'll find advice on:? hiring, firing, and managing employees? working with difficult bosses? dealing with sexual harassment? maintaining your dignity and knowing when to say no? balancing work and familyThis well-organized manual with its easy-to-understand rules provides invaluable advice for both young women starting out in the business world and mid-career women seeking to advance or change their careers. Can This Elephant Curtsy? skillfully integrates entertainment, education, wisdom, and inspiration into one accessible book.DANIELLE WEINSTOCK, TV and film producer, has worked on over thirty television shows or feature films, such as Weeds, 24, The Agency, White Fang II, Crossing Jordan, and Fantasy Island. She also wrote the documentary A Song's Best Friend: John Denver Remembered, which aired on PBS. As a certified public accountant, a member of both the Producer's Guild of America and the Director's Guild of America, and a working mother, she brings a unique perspective to the place and prospects of women in business.

What are the practical and creative elements for becoming a director? How do you get started? What is the best way for actors, designers, and crew to work with directors? This guide provides regional theater companies and new directors with the knowledge and tools they need to produce successful shows. Drawing on years of experience directing and producing plays, Wilma Marcus Chandler covers such topics as: * How to read and analyze a script and really understand it * How to visualize your show * How to get started, researching and thinking about concept, music, lights, sound, costumes * How to hold auditions * How to talk to your case and crew--and how to listen * How to stage a play, using blocking, body movement, stage business, exits and entrances * How to prepare a production, including rehearsal techniques, time lines, budgets, royalties, publicity * How to prepare a career in directing

When it comes to being a good leader, we've read the sports analogies, we've read the war analogies. But how about hitting a little closer to home? As a mother, the following rules and tactics probably sound familiar to you: - Never Underestimate the Power of Kiss-It-Make-It-Better - Hold the Line on Tantrums - Remember the Magic Word Count to Three Before Giving a Time-Out These are good, solid rules for how to raise children. But can these same rules make you a better boss? Absolutely. In her impressive first book, Shari Storm takes the lessons attributed to parenting and shows how they can be directly applied in the workplace, making you a more effective manager and giving you the confidence to lead and shape your staff into the employees you want them to be. Shari gathers a wonderful collection of funny and inspirational stories from a wide range of executive mothers---TV producers, firefighters, accountants, teachers, baristas, corporate leaders, pilots---for an engaging, easy-to-absorb read. These pages will provide both laughs and enlightenment. For the woman who wants to excel in her business, this goes beyond your average management book.