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First Team Dad: Your Playbook For A Winning Family By J. Drew Pittman chats with Dr. Alvin

J Drew Pittman Click Here To Listen Competitive sports are filled with lessons about motivation, perseverance, hard work, and collaboration—and these lessons are surprisingly transferable to everyday life. Yet few men apply these principles to the most important arena they'll ever play in: the home. A man doesn't need to be a professional athlete to learn and use these lessons. The "game changers" Drew Pittman shares can improve family life and help every man create a winning team. Simple and practical insights including: Constructing a solid game plane Building a culture of accountability Encouraging creativity Harnessing the power of encouragement And many more

By |July 16th, 2014|Business, Gospel, Leadership, Men, Sports|Comments Off on First Team Dad: Your Playbook For A Winning Family By J. Drew Pittman chats with Dr. Alvin
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Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – And Helped Save An American Town By Beth Macy chats with Dr. Alvin

Beth Macy Click Here To Listen   With over $500 million a year in sales, the Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for a century, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia -- an unincorporated town that existed solely to fuel the business. But beginning in the 1980s, the Bassett company suffered from an influx of cheap Asian furniture as the first wave of imports struck, and ultimately moved nearly all its production to Asia. Only one man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man who used grit, tenacity, and will to compete against China [...]

By |July 15th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Business|Comments Off on Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – And Helped Save An American Town By Beth Macy chats with Dr. Alvin
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Restaurant Success By The Numbers, Second Edition: A Money-Guy’s Guide To Opening the Next New Hot Spot By Rogers Fields chats with Dr. Alvin

Roger Fields Click Here To Listen Ninety percent of all restaurants fail, and those that succeed happened upon that mysterious X factor, right? Wrong! A man of many hats—money-guy, restaurant owner, and restaurant consultant—Roger Fields shows how a restaurant can survive its first year and keep diners coming back for years. Featuring real-life start-up stories (including many of the author’s own), this comprehensive how-to walks readers through the logistics of opening a restaurant: concept, location, menu, ambiance, staff, and, most important, profit. Updated to address current trends such as food trucks and to tackle online opportunities (and pitfalls!) including Groupon, Yelp, and Twitter, Restaurant Success by the Numbers remains a critical resource for navigating the [...]

By |July 14th, 2014|Business|Comments Off on Restaurant Success By The Numbers, Second Edition: A Money-Guy’s Guide To Opening the Next New Hot Spot By Rogers Fields chats with Dr. Alvin
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Steve Forbes, author of Money chats with Dr. Alvin

Steve Forbes-Money Click Here To Listen Money is an unavoidable subject that few of us really understand, and, according to former Forbes magazine editor-in-chief Steve Forbes, our lack of comprehension of what's behind it could threaten the health of the global economy. In what is certain to be a much-discussed and widely controversial book, he argues that the most effective way to truly stabilize international financial markets is to put the dollar back on a gold standard. A clarion call for a sound money policy.

By |July 3rd, 2014|Business, Economics|Comments Off on Steve Forbes, author of Money chats with Dr. Alvin
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Happy@Work: 60 Simple Ways To Stay Engaged And Be Successful By Jim Donovan chats with Dr. Alvin

Jim Donovan Click Here To Listen Even in a tight economy, job satisfaction isn’t a luxury; fulfilled, happy employees are productive, innovative, and loyal. And workplace fulfillment spills over into happier families and better communities. Jim Donovan, a small-business owner, consultant, and speaker, has worked with employees and employers for twenty-five years. In that time he has tested and honed these shift-producing strategies on everything from managing time, making decisions, and marking milestones to breaking patterns, bouncing back, and becoming exceptional. Each tip’s method and rationale are clearly explained. Real workplace vignettes demonstrate the benefits and results that can be gleaned from simple shifts and actions. These tools will empower you with the knowledge that [...]

By |June 26th, 2014|Business, Careers|Comments Off on Happy@Work: 60 Simple Ways To Stay Engaged And Be Successful By Jim Donovan chats with Dr. Alvin
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Pivot Points: Five Decisions Every Successful Leader Must Make By Julia Tang Peters chats with Dr. Alvin

Julia Tang Peters Click Here To Listen A Roadmap for Transforming Ambition into Achievement In the sea of thrown-together, stereotypical leadership advice, Julia Tang Peters’ Pivot Points stands out like a beacon. This book is not the result of trite 10-step recipes or unstudied observations. Instead, its source is in-depth research conducted among some of the country’s most effective leaders. Intimate interviews and broad survey data reveal that the leaders who stand out are the ones who fearlessly face the decisions that characterize career turning points. Amazingly, the people who break through barriers to transform industries encounter—and effectively confront—the same five critical decisions. In Pivot Points, you’ll read how five inspiring and approachable leaders made [...]

By |June 16th, 2014|Business|Comments Off on Pivot Points: Five Decisions Every Successful Leader Must Make By Julia Tang Peters chats with Dr. Alvin
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Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons For Entrepreneurs, Executives And Small Business Owners By Michael Mazzeo chats with Dr. Alvin

Michael Mazzeo Click Here To Listen While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management hopped in a car and headed on a road trip. They pulled into a shoe store in Maine and noticed that the sales help was unusually pushy. After a few questions, they discovered the store had a "secret shopper" program, in which employees would be marked down if they were not sufficiently aggressive with customers. A lightbulb went off. Instead of teaching the tried-and-true case studies involving GE and Microsoft, these three wise men decided to pull their heads out of their ivory towers and go in search [...]

By |June 15th, 2014|Business|Comments Off on Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons For Entrepreneurs, Executives And Small Business Owners By Michael Mazzeo chats with Dr. Alvin
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How The Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding The Path To The Middle Class by John Hope Bryant chats with Dr. Alvin

John Hope Bryant Click Here To Listen   John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration, he argues, they will be able to lift themselves up into the middle class and become a new generation of customers and entrepreneurs. Raised in poverty-stricken, gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, Bryant saw firsthand how our institutions have abandoned the poor. He details how business loans, home loans, and financial investments have vanished from their communities. After decades of deprivation, the poor lack [...]

By |June 13th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Business, Careers, History|Comments Off on How The Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding The Path To The Middle Class by John Hope Bryant chats with Dr. Alvin
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