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Robert James Harlan
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Robert James Harlan was an entrepreneur, businessman and army officer who devoted the second half of his life to political and civic service. Among his many accomplishments, in an 1879 speech before Congress titled “Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs,” Harlan argued for the right of blacks to migrate wherever they chose within the United States. Within the next year, 6,000 black “Exodusters” would leave Mississippi and ...
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Richard Henry Austin
Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Richard Henry Austin was born on May 6, 1913 in Stouts Mountain, Alabama, the son of Richard H. and Leila (Hill) Austin. Austin shined and sold shoes while studying at the Detroit Institute of Technology at night. After graduating from the Institute in 1937, he became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in 1941 (the first African American to do so in Michigan), and founded his own accounting firm. Austin ...
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Make Peace with Anyone – Book Review
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes With all the personalities you are likely to meet on the way up you need some kind of guide. This is the book that I used to understand and diffuse all kind of potential conflicts with people of different cultures, different backgrounds and just plain different period. Making peace doesn’t mean the beef is over but it does mean letting things go and not letting small things mess up ...
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Make Your Business Personal – Guest Podcast
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes There is a popular belief claiming you cannot mix your business life with your personal life. If you are trying to be about business, you have to be about business 24/7, 360 degrees in every aspect of your life. Instead of developing a split personality trying to separate your business from your personal life, this podcast is going to discuss how you can succeed in both your business life ...
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One that Won
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes Even I get people who want to put me in my place. Besides the Compton thing that people want to challenge I get the all you did is make One business and you think you know everything. Well I never said I knew everything but I sure as hell know something! Also they are right I only started One but that’ the One that Won! How many companies did ...
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Where They Are – Podcast
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes People are naturally helpful even businessmen. There is always a natural conflict between the businessman and those who want to help the community. There is a way to make money and better your surroundings and it usually requires meeting the buying public Where They Are. Where They Are means providing them things that are aligned with what already is selling as the businessman doesn’t want to create new tastes ...
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Rigged
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes If you were a business owner where would you like your products? Probably in the living room or across the street from your customers. In fact if you were really about your chips you would deliver it to their door like the newspaper in the morning. Isn’t that convenient that you only have to go around the corner to make all your purchases? Isn’t it convenient that you can ...
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Honesty is a Policy but it Ain’t the Best
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes Honesty overall is a great way to proceed when in business but it’s a lie to say it’s the best. Most people who you interact with over money really can’t take Honesty and so most of the time being quiet is probably better. It is rare to meet someone who can take criticism and it is even more rare to meet someone who will tell you the truth. People ...
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More than Entertainment
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes I know I got a lot of cats who listen to the R&G who are heavy in the entertainment industry. I know some of the stuff I write or say on a podcast pisses some cats off to the point where they think I don’t know what I am talking about. Well hey let me admit that you’re right I never made a song, never wanted to be in ...
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