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My Conversation With Shane Snow, Author Of Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart

Click Here To Listen Shane Snow-Dream Teams Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through. The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together. You'll learn: * How ragtag teams--from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates--beat the odds throughout history. * Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most failed [...]

By |June 12th, 2018|Business, Careers, Leadership|Comments Off on My Conversation With Shane Snow, Author Of Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart
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My Conversation With Mary A. Camuto, Author Of Make the Most Of Your Workday: Be More Productive, Engaged, And Satisfied As You Conquer The Chaos At Work

Click Here To Listen Mary A Camuto Even if you don't have your dream job, every day is precious and filled with opportunities. Make the Most of Your Workday challenges you to actively manage and make the most of workday possibilities and problems. With drive, determination, and optimism, it offers solutions to workday predicaments. You can take control; you don't have to wait for leaders, people, or circumstances to change. No matter your level, situation, or dilemma, Mary shows you how to regroup, reframe, and bounce back. Make the Most of Your Workday begins with six common scenarios. Can you relate to any of the following challenges? Getting caught up in office dramas. Watching workloads [...]

By |June 12th, 2018|Business, Careers|Comments Off on My Conversation With Mary A. Camuto, Author Of Make the Most Of Your Workday: Be More Productive, Engaged, And Satisfied As You Conquer The Chaos At Work
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My Conversation With Martin Walker, Author Of A Taste for Vengeance: A Bruno, Chief Of Police Novel

Click Here To Listen Martin Walker A missing woman, a shocking pregnancy, a dash of international intrigue, and a bottle or two of good Bergerac: it's another case for Bruno, Chief of Police. When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess is quick to call on Bruno for help. Monica Felder is nowhere to be found, and her husband, a retired British major, is unreachable. And not long after Bruno discovers that Monica was traveling with a mysterious Irishman (her lover?), the two turn up dead. The Irishman's background in intelligence and his connection to Monica's husband only [...]

By |June 11th, 2018|Crime, Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on My Conversation With Martin Walker, Author Of A Taste for Vengeance: A Bruno, Chief Of Police Novel
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Ken Jennings, Author Of Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture

Click Here To Listen Ken Jennings From the brilliantly witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings, a history of humor—from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter gags and Facebook memes—that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world. For millennia of human history, the future belonged to the strong. To the parent who could kill the most animals with sticks and to the child who could survive the winter or the epidemic. When the Industrial Revolution came, masters of business efficiency prospered instead, and after that we placed our hope in scientific visionaries. Today, in a clear sign of evolution [...]

By |June 11th, 2018|Television|Comments Off on Ken Jennings, Author Of Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
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NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans Of Music City 2018 Recipient: H. Beecher Hicks III

Click Here To Listen Nashville Business 100 Leading African Americans H. Beecher Hicks III H. Beecher Hicks III’s professional experiences have included work in both the private, public and non-profit sectors where he has focused on building enterprises as a consultant, banker, investor and operating executive. Henry is now the president and CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (www.nmaam.org), also known as NMAAM, which is scheduled to begin construction this year (2017) and open in 2019. From Africa to hip-hop, the 56,000 sq. ft. experiential museum will highlight the many contributions African Americans have made to American music and culture. Henry is also a partner with Red Clay Capital Holdings, LLC (redclaycapital.com), [...]

By |June 7th, 2018|African Americans, Biography, Nashville Business, Nashville Leading 100|Comments Off on NashvilleBusiness.Net 100 Leading African Americans Of Music City 2018 Recipient: H. Beecher Hicks III
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Join me and support The Franklin Rotary Breakfast Annual Golf Tournament On Columbus Day 2018 at The Legends Country Club in Franklin. This is an ideal marketing opportunity for your company or golf business networking outing as a professional. Net proceeds supports so far have contributed over $1.1 million to over 25 charities. Call me at 615-716-2139 to learn more. Thanks.

By |June 7th, 2018|Charity|Comments Off on Join me and support The Franklin Rotary Breakfast Annual Golf Tournament On Columbus Day 2018 at The Legends Country Club in Franklin. This is an ideal marketing opportunity for your company or golf business networking outing as a professional. Net proceeds supports so far have contributed over $1.1 million to over 25 charities. Call me at 615-716-2139 to learn more. Thanks.
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My Conversation With Alex Perry, Author Of The Good Mothers: The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World’s Most Powerful Mafia

Click Here To Listen Alex Perry The electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias – and how they risked everything to bring it down. The Calabrian Mafia—known as the ’Ndrangheta—is one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates in the world, with branches stretching from America to Australia. It controls seventy percent of the cocaine and heroin supply in Europe, manages billion-dollar extortion rackets, brokers illegal arms deals—supplying weapons to criminals and terrorists—and plunders the treasuries of both Italy and the European Union. The ’Ndrangheta’s power derives from a macho mix of violence and silence—omertà. Yet it endures because of family ties: you [...]

By |June 6th, 2018|Crime|Comments Off on My Conversation With Alex Perry, Author Of The Good Mothers: The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World’s Most Powerful Mafia
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My Conversation With Allison Pearson, Author Of How Hard Can It Be?: A Novel

Click Here To Listen Allison Pearson Look, I was doing OK. I got through the oil spill on the road that is turning forty. Lost a little control, but I drove into the skid just like the driving instructors tell you to and afterwards things were fine again, no, really, they were better than fine. Kate Reddy had it all: a nice home, two adorable kids, a good husband. Then her kids became teenagers (read: monsters). Richard, her husband, quit his job, taking up bicycling and therapeutic counseling: drinking green potions, dressing head to toe in Lycra, and spending his time―and their money―on his own therapy. Since Richard no longer sees a regular income as [...]

By |June 6th, 2018|Fiction|Comments Off on My Conversation With Allison Pearson, Author Of How Hard Can It Be?: A Novel
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