
Today's professionals would do well by themselves to take a glance back at the 1960s and 1970s, a period in which the music industry experienced unprecedented change. Relative outsiders in the unlikely forms of Elvis Presley and the Beatles upset and ultimately redefined the seemingly iron-clad business models that preceded them.
We live in an age of extraordinary change, an era in which entire industries have been born, while others have been scuttled aside, victims of our rapidly shifting technologies. New jobs exist that we never could have imagined, with countless other employment opportunities on the horizon.