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  • Being Nice Gives You A Real Advantage by Ross Reck

    Friendly and Nice

    There are a number of people who view being nice as a liability when it comes to their personal and professional success.  Some say, “If you’re nice, people will take advantage of you.”  Others say, “If you’re nice, you’ll be seen as being weak.”  Recent research studies, however, have shown that just the opposite is true.  In a study published in the March, 2009 issue of the Journal of Product Innovation Management, researchers found that managers who treated their employees with kindness, respect and fairness got far better performance from them than managers who didn’t.  Other studies show that nice people are happier, healthier, more optimistic and make more money than their not so nice counterparts.  So, make it a point to smile and say or do something that brightens the day of everyone you come into contact with.  If you do this for one week, you’ll be amazed at how much your life changes for the better.

  • Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story

    British-born Amazonian cowboy turned US TV star, Stan Brock, sacrificed fame and wealth to bring free healthcare to America. His life both embodies and confronts one of the biggest social issues of our time; the US healthcare crisis.

    A timeless documentary adventure recounting the incredible life story of British-born Amazonian cowboy turned US TV star, Stan Brock, who sacrificed everything to bring free healthcare to people in need. At once a heart-warming tribute to the unifying power of volunteerism, and an exploration of a perennial outsider’s search for meaning through giving of himself. This film is a challenging and inspirational tale of an unlikely man on an improbable yet unwavering mission to unite a nation and resolve one of the biggest social issues of our time; the US healthcare crisis. 1

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  • About Ross Reck

    Dr. Ross Reck is known by the media as the “Top Gun” negotiations expert. During this past year, he appeared on television, in print and on more than 500 radio stations commenting on a variety of negotiation and dispute issues ranging from the 2002 Major League Baseball labor situation to the current west coast dockworker dispute. He is the author of The X-Factor: Getting Extraordinary Results From Ordinary People (published in September, 2001 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) and the best selling The Win-Win Negotiator (published in 1989 by Pocket Books). Because of its universal appeal, The Win-Win Negotiator has been translated into four additional languages (German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish).

    A compelling and dynamic speaker, Dr. Reck has been featured at hundreds of meetings, conferences and conventions throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America. His recent consulting clients include Hewlett-Packard, John Deere, American Express, Janssen-Ortho, Inc., the Chicago Cubs and Xerox.

    Dr. Reck received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1977. From 1975 to 1985 he served a Professor of Management at Arizona State University. During his career at ASU he was the only two-time recipient of the prestigious “Teaching Excellence In Continuing Education” award and was identified by the university as an “Outstanding Teacher.” Since 1985 he has dedicated his full time efforts to positioning his clients for new heights of achievement.

  • White Boy Rick – Still In Jail?

    White Boy Rick
    Richard Wershe Jr.

    ‘White Boy,’ a true-crime documentary directed by Shawn Rech, tells us the fascinating story of Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe Jr., who gained tremendous notoriety in the 1980s as an alleged drug kingpin who was also an FBI informant. He was arrested for possession of cocaine when he was 17 years old and was sentenced to life without parole under the rather harsh 650-Lifer Law in Michigan. If you’re curious to know where he is now, we’ve got you covered. 2

    Prisoner of War: The Story of White Boy Rick and the War on Drugs - Available from Amazon.com
    Prisoner of War: The Story of White Boy Rick and the War on Drugs – Available from Amazon.com

    The tale of a Detroit boy recruited by the FBI—at age 14—to be a paid informant against a politically-connected drug gang is so amazing it inspired a Hollywood film—White Boy Rick—starring Matthew McConaughey as the teen’s father.

    What kind of father would take FBI cash to let his youngest child be an undercover operative in the murderous drug underworld? This book answers the question.

    White Boy Rick became the Detroit FBI’s most productive drug informant of the ‘80s, but as the book explains, things went awry amid FBI misdeeds. Rick tried to become a cocaine wholesaler, got caught and has spent 30 years behind bars. He became a Prisoner of War: The War on Drugs. Rick Wershe is the central character in a wide-ranging exploration of the nearly half-century trillion-dollar policy failure known as the War on Drugs. It explains “testilying”, the widespread perjury felony committed by the police in pursuit of drug felonies, it examines CIA pressure to get charges dropped in a Detroit drug case and it shows how a basketball star’s drug death led to mass incarceration.

  • White supremacy isn’t limited to the South.

    As part of their broader attack on voting rights, Georgia Republicans are now taking aim at Black churches.

    A new bill moving through the state legislature would severely limit early voting on Sundays, destroying many Black churches’ traditions of marching to the polls after services. The anti-voter legislature is a clear measure of revenge against Black and Brown voters for electing Senator Reverend Warnock and President Biden.

    “There is no other way you can describe this other than racism, and we just need to call it what it is,” Georgia’s AME Bishop Reginald T. Jackson told the New York Times.

    White supremacy isn’t limited to the South. At least 253 anti-voter bills are under consideration in 43 states to eliminate polling places and drop boxes (especially in communities of color), reduce early and absentee voting, and strip power from local election officials.

    The good news is we can do something about these racist bills. After countless Americans spoke out, the U.S. House passed the For the People Act on March 8. The bill bans common anti-voter measures, expands ballot access, and cracks down on corruption and gerrymandering. Now we need to pressure the Senate to act! 3