David Cutler

The Savvy Musician 2.0 guides musicians to build careers, lead organizations, found ventures, strengthen viability, and make a difference. Industry challenges are highlighted, but not dwelled upon. Instead, these pages burst with flexible, actionable success strategies that address a comprehensive collection of issues for professionals of all stripes. Readers expecting an answer key spelling out exactly what to do will be disappointed. In today's world, where rules and realities are in constant flux, there are no unimpeachable formulas guaranteed to deliver. Instead, you will find provocative questions and powerhouse tools. Your challenge is to build something uniquely extraordinary, elevating personal aptitudes and relevant priorities. Part I: Entrepreneurial Journey examines issues like entrepreneurial mindset, defining success, product development, marketing, financial strategy, project management, and legacy. Don't let the focus on "entrepreneurship" throw you. Such perspectives are paramount to folks in even the most traditional of roles and organizations. No individual or organization is immune from the need for savvy, innovative problem-solving. Part II: Art That Matters takes a deep dive into artistic expressions: live performance, audio recording, and video. Beyond practical how-to guidance, it plants seeds for expanding relevance and demand. Part III: Nice Work if You Can Get It is pragmatic, focused on marketplace opportunities and career development. After unveiling tips that help secure employment, chapters address frameworks related to music teaching, performance, composition, and the industry at large. For those who are willing to do whatever it takes but need some help with the roadmap, The Savvy Musician 2.0 is intended to provide that guidance. Whether you're a student breaking onto the scene, or a seasoned professional, author David Cutler has written a resource to help you take control of your future and to embrace a holistic approach to your livelihood and art. Become inspired to balance tradition with innovation, insist upon relevance, but most importantly, get things done. Become a savvy musician.

The Savvy Musician 2.0 guides musicians to build careers, lead organizations, found ventures, strengthen viability, and make a difference. Industry challenges are highlighted, but not dwelled upon. Instead, these pages burst with flexible, actionable success strategies that address a comprehensive collection of issues for professionals of all stripes. Readers expecting an answer key spelling out exactly what to do will be disappointed. In today's world, where rules and realities are in constant flux, there are no unimpeachable formulas guaranteed to deliver. Instead, you will find provocative questions and powerhouse tools. Your challenge is to build something uniquely extraordinary, elevating personal aptitudes and relevant priorities. Part I: Entrepreneurial Journey examines issues like entrepreneurial mindset, defining success, product development, marketing, financial strategy, project management, and legacy. Don't let the focus on "entrepreneurship" throw you. Such perspectives are paramount to folks in even the most traditional of roles and organizations. No individual or organization is immune from the need for savvy, innovative problem-solving. Part II: Art That Matters takes a deep dive into artistic expressions: live performance, audio recording, and video. Beyond practical how-to guidance, it plants seeds for expanding relevance and demand. Part III: Nice Work if You Can Get It is pragmatic, focused on marketplace opportunities and career development. After unveiling tips that help secure employment, chapters address frameworks related to music teaching, performance, composition, and the industry at large. For those who are willing to do whatever it takes but need some help with the roadmap, The Savvy Musician 2.0 is intended to provide that guidance. Whether you're a student breaking onto the scene, or a seasoned professional, author David Cutler has written a resource to help you take control of your future and to embrace a holistic approach to your livelihood and art. Become inspired to balance tradition with innovation, insist upon relevance, but most importantly, get things done. Become a savvy musician.

David Cutler is a visionary entrepreneur who became the largest privately held regional homebuilder in the Northeast, building an empire of over 16,000 homes and amassing $12 billion in lifetime sales. Along the way, he has learned from industry titans, movie stars and everyday heroes; each encounter enriching his understanding of business and life. Today, David has transitioned to the role of mentor, podcast host, and motivational speaker; inspiring others to reach their full potential. Yet, above all, his proudest achievement is being a father to four remarkable children. This memoir captures the whirlwind success, setbacks, and invaluable lessons learned.

"Expansive and entertaining. . . . A] fast-paced and highly readable journey . . . the book serves as a useful tool in the effort to redefine the role of the city in an age of increasingly polarized politics, and reminds us that urban health is--as Fiorello La Guardia once remarked about cleaning the streets--not a Democratic or Republican issue." --New York Times Book Review One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. That's always been true--diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity's greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and civilization itself. But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis, cities grew silent; the normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these changes? Advances in technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before. Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? City life will survive, but individual cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities offer. But great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. In America, Glaeser and Cutler argue, deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of our cities; solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a downward spiral to a much darker place.

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities

As a leader, how do you facilitate breakthrough opportunities? Gamify challenges. Level up your team. And play to WIN. Unveiling a comprehensive approach to extraordinary problem-solving, The GAME of Innovation offers all you need to meet challenges head on and seize the competitive edge. Conceived by a super-creative quartet of top-tier business consultants, The GAME of Innovation builds upon a novel premise: What if you framed problems as if they were games of profound significance? How might you design something new or reimagine the old, particularly when competition increases, technology disrupts, change accelerates, money tightens, and the rules of success are constantly evolving? The book then shares a flexible methodology for designing powerhouse innovation GAMEs (Guidelines, Arena, Materials, Experience), aligning teams with 5 problem-solving “lenses,” building consensus behind change, and leading/managing the process. This uncommon, easy-to-read, visual book is packed with actionable strategies that will help you and your community thrive when playing The GAME of Innovation.

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities

One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. They always have--diseases spread more easily when more people are close to one another. And disease is hardly the only ill that accompanies urban density. Cities have been demonized as breeding grounds for vice and crime from Sodom and Gomorrah on. But cities have flourished nonetheless because they are humanity's greatest invention, indispensable engines for creativity, innovation, wealth, and connection, the loom on which the fabric of civilization is woven. But cities now stand at a crossroads. During the global COVID crisis, cities grew silent as people worked from home--if they could work at all. The normal forms of socializing ground to a halt. How permanent are these changes? Advances in digital technology mean that many people can opt out of city life as never before. Will they? Are we on the brink of a post-urban world? City life will survive but individual cities face terrible risks, argue Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, and a wave of urban failure would be absolutely disastrous. In terms of intimacy and inspiration, nothing can replace what cities offer. Great cities have always demanded great management, and our current crisis has exposed fearful gaps in our capacity for good governance. It is possible to drive a city into the ground, pandemic or not. Glaeser and Cutler examine the evolution that is already happening, and describe the possible futures that lie before us: What will distinguish the cities that will flourish from the ones that won't? In America, they argue, deep inequities in health care and education are a particular blight on the future of our cities; solving them will be the difference between our collective good health and a downward spiral to a much darker place.

In the United States, the soaring cost of health care has become an economic drag and a political flashpoint. Moreover, although the country's medical spending is higher than that of any other nation, health outcomes are no better than elsewhere, and in some cases are even worse. In The Quality Cure, renowned health care economist and former Obama advisor David Cutler offers an accessible and incisive account of the issues and their causes, as well as a road map for the future of health care reform--one that shows how information technology, realigned payment systems, and value-focused organizations together have the power to resolve this seemingly intractable problem and transform the US health care system into one that is affordable, efficient, and effective.