Celebrating Black Americana

Antiques Roadshow compiled an interesting
collection of segments on African American collectibles.
For example, pictures of a valuable textbook issued
by Madam Walker.

Highly educational look at entrepreneurial and artistic ventures
of several historical and pioneering African Americans that many
people never learned about are featured.

References

Pbsvideo.org
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365418399/

Popular woodworking.com
Cesar Chelo
http://tinyurl.com/p9tfqb3

Superselected.com
People You Should Know
Art Smith
http://tinyurl.com/kzra7pb

Dee Adams is the author of
Finding Your Niche: Discover…
http://wp.me/P3Kr4S-Uz

History of a Successful Startup

Fire In The Belly: Building A World-leading
High-tech Company From Scratch
In Tumultuous Times

Co-authors, Jerry D. Neal & Jerry Bledsoe, appeared recently
on a 17-minute c-span segment. They gave an insightful and amusing account
of the high tech company’s start-up challenges with product development
and the loss of a major client early on.
http://tinyurl.com/o6zrlz4

Fire in the Belly:…worth reading for those
with an interest in high-tech and entrepreneurship.
And note the irony of the subtitle:
it was written in 2005, more than three years before the global
economic collapse in 2008.

Takeaways Include:
Employees can be laid off or fired…but when you are the boss…
it’s the clients who might do the firing…

The founders used the work is play concept…and they also
understood the importance from the beginning that they had to
match proper skill set and knowledge to grow their business.

Dee Adams is the author of
Finding Your Niche: Discover…
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 Cory Doctorow’s Laws

How small artists can make a living in the digital age despite
legal and business conflicts with the corporate world is the
primary theme of Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free:
Laws for the Internet Age, by guru, activist
and author Cory Doctorow.

During a recent author discussion, topics, such as copyright,
DRM, and contract issues in the music and publishing industries
were some of the topics included.

For example, once upon a time, many years ago,
new recording artists signed to a record company
had to agree in their contacts to pay the record company
a specified fee out of future royalties for Breakage.

You see, old fashioned records would sometimes break during shipping.
Broken records meant loss of revenue and someone had to reimburse
the company for that loss.
Fortunately, with the invention of the Mp3 the Breakage clause is no longer
required in the industry in the 21^st century.…

You’d think so wouldn’t you…?
According to Doctorow, you’d be wrong.…

Dee Adams is the author of
Finding Your Niche: Discover…
http://wp.me/P3Kr4S-Uz

Reference
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free:
Laws for the Internet Age
Video and transcript
C-span.org/video 7322872…about 90 minutes
http://tinyurl.com/nph8l53

Note: Interestingly enough, at one major California public library.
there are five times as many people on a waiting list to read
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free:… in the print edition, versus the reserve list for eBook format

 Cool Examples of Finger Dexterity

In the 1920’s, Johnson O’Connor,
a General Electric engineer,
wanted a new way to evaluate
which jobs workers were best suited for.

Mr. O’Connor, a former John Dewey student,
developed a Finger Dexterity test,
which focused on workers needs rather than management.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWkO9A-Ckk?feature=oembed&w=1200&h=675]

Several people who illustrate
high-level Finger Dexterity are noted in this post.
If each person is ranked as 10 on a scale of 1-10,
where might you be on the scale?

1. Chef…Knife skills

2. Classical Guitarist
Tavis Smiley PBS.ORG
Grammy Award-Winning
Sharon Isbin features
samples of her talent.
http://tinyurl.com/k97h2o7

3. Candy Maker
I Love Lucy
Job Switching
Episode: 036
Classic episode from the second season of the 1950’s sitcom
in which Lucy and Ethel get jobs in a candy factory.

Notice the silent efficient candy maker on the assembly line…
Note: Some people may be forced to admit that their
Finger Dexterity aptitudes
match Lucy Ricardo’s.

Dee Adams is the author
of Finding Your Niche: Discover…
http://wp.me/P3Kr4S-U

References

I Love Lucy
TVland.com
http://tinyurl.com/oawwj6r

Jocrf.org/understanding youraptitudes.pdf
Pages, 57-58
http://www.jocrf.org/Understanding_Your_Aptitudes.pdf

Avoiding Common Financial Pitfalls

What would you do if you were a health care
professional and discovered that trusted
medical professionals had
committed malpractice and harmed
your close family member?

Debra Muth, WHNP, ND, BSN, MSNH, BAAHP details
her family’s lengthy legal and medical ordeal in her new book
titled The Dark Side of Injury: Navigating
Worker’s Compensation,Health Insurance,
And the Medical-Pharmaceutical Industry:
Tools for Protecting You and Your Family.

“Do No Harm” at the heart of the Hippocratic Oath. Powerful
cultural traditions. Sacred words that assumes trust and protection. .

Problem is the Oath is a Romanized concept… less than 80 percent
of medical schools administer that ethical and moral code.

Firsthand experience and government statistics reveal medical errors
are common, and in too many cases, cover ups are part of a code of silence.
Factor in a lawsuit and the chances are excellent that the injured party
with a righteous claim will not receive fair compensation…
Much less win his or her case.

The best defense and protection is education
Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2013 report more than 3 million cases
of injuries and illness on the job occurred.

The Dark Side of Injury is an inside look at how to  avoid
common pitfalls, which many patient-consumers experience
in different degrees.

References

The Dark Side of Injury:
Navigating Worker’s Compensation, Health Insurance,
And the Medical-Pharmaceutical Industry:
Tools for Protecting You and Your Family
http://tinyurl.com/qgz7bqe

Serenity Health Care Center.com
http://tinyurl.com/nml8nd8

Charlie Rose.com
Interview Harvard Business School Dean
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60504899

Bureau of Labor Stastics.gov
Employer-Reported Workplace Injury
and Illness Summary
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh.nr0.htm

Medical Errors Decreased When Work
Schedules for Interns Were Limited, NIOSH-
and AHRQ-Funded Studies Find
http://tinyurl.com/m7ylp46

Dee Adams is the editor of
Changing Your Work.or Career…
http://wp.me/P3Kr4S-Ux..

Revisiting Clementine Hunter, Rose O’Neill &
Horace Pippen…

The Secret Paintings
of Clementine Hunter
http://wp.me/p3Kr4S-25r

Rose O’Neill
http://wp.me/p3Kr4S-1RD

Harlem Hellfighters:
Business and Creative
the genius behind the scenes
Horace Pippen
http://wp.me/p3Kr4S-1Dc

Updated: Quiz with Valuable Insights

Where Did The Time Go?
Thought provoking and valuable checklist of 55 questions and
observations about time… and the lack thereof.

It’s a poster in a checklist format by award-winning author,
Frank Sonnenberg, considered
a thought leader in the corporate and small business world.

Reference
Frank SonnenbergOnline.com/Posters
http://tinyurl.com/q2fxrhv

Takeaway: Use your answers to Where Did The Time Go?
to spot problem areas and identify ways to improve.
Consider making
your own checklist
poster, based on you answers…

AIIP.org
Experts Suggest
3 Insightful Resources about Time…
And note that residents in states across the U.S.
have different perceptions.

Business Insider.com
How Different Cultures Understand Time
http://tinyurl.com/nedkadl

YouTube
German versus Mexican Culture: viewpoints on time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzTDdru1GwM

Time Perception Among Navajo American Indians
and Its Relation to Academic Success
http://wirelesshogan.com/key_issues/navajo_time_perception

Dee Adams is the author
of Finding Your Niche: Discover…
http://wp.me/P3Kr4S-U

Why You Should Start Early

Simple ways to recognize and encourage creativity
and entrepreneurial talent is the underlying theme in the
February issue of  Safety Net-Parents newsletter

Leon Scott Baxter, dad, author, elementary teacher, and editor of
Safety Net Parents newsletter also includes a Disney video
of a teen fashion designer.

Industry insiders’ consider the teen designer
to some of Hollywood’s stars, the youngest in the business.
And her upbringing illustrates the end result of some of the principles that
Baxter outlines.

References

Safety Net Parenting Newsletter
http://tinyurl.com/mz2ggxc

Safetynetters.com
http://www.safetynetters.com/resources.html

Facebook/SafetyNetParenting
https://www.facebook.com/SafetyNetParenting

When the War Between the States ended, soldiers
from two regiments of colored infantries pooled their funds
to start a school in 1886.

At first, they named it Lincoln Institute.
It was founded as a school of higher learning for
freed African Americans in Missouri.

Today, the diverse student body at Lincoln University (LU)
is the only institution of higher learning founded by African American
Civil War Veterans. It’s also the only university established by veterans
of any color from any military branch.

Continuing a pattern of innovation in education, in 1940,
LU became the first Historically Black College (HBC) to offer
a journalism degree. And the only HBC to offer one for the next 25 years!

References
Lincoln University-Missouri.edu
http://www.lincolnu.edu/web/about-lincoln/our-history

FaceBook/LU
http://tinyurl.com/lgt6jrx

Blackpast.org
http://tinyurl.com/mzdk7pd

Using Music to Over Challenges

Marcus Roberts
Tavis Smiley PBS
Musician described as little known outside the industry
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365410702/

Patrick Costello
Washington Post
Merry God of banjo’:
Despite deafness…man learned to play and teach music
http://tinyurl.com/qj8rwy5