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5 WAYS TO STOP ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM TAKING YOUR JOB
Robots are taking over the world. In 2017, PwC shared that within the next 15 years, 38% of American jobs will be replaced by Artificial Intelligence or Robotics. 61% of the jobs performed by humans in the financial services sector will be gone. Kai-Fu Lee , head of Beijing’s Sinovation Ventures and former head of Google China…
Read MoreI'LL HAVE THE LOBSTER… WITH A SIDE OF COMMUNICATION
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Read MoreTOFU WRAPPED BACON…BE THE BRAND
“Clean Comedian for corporate, government, or personal events. Contact me for rates and availability.” That’s what the post said on the professional speakers and entertainers group that I am a part of on Linkedin. I was intrigued, not because I am looking for a corporate comic, but because I wanted to see the face of…
Read MoreCREATING PROFITABLE RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH…CONTEXT
In 2004 my world changed. It was altered, not because of events or circumstances, but because of context. I became a husband in 2004. I became a father in 2004, then again in 2005, and once more in 2008. Finally my wife told me that if I wanted another child I would have to do…
Read MorePainting HiSTORY
Staring at the painting of the two Japanese women hanging in my mother’s house, I realize that I have stared at that picture my whole life. I first remember it on a wall in my grandparents’ house beside the upright piano that my grandfather loved to play, especially after a scotch on the rocks had…
Read MoreCAN YOU EAT YOUR OWN CRAWFISH?… Leadership with a kick
As a student at the University of Southern Mississippi, I began a love affair that has endured throughout the better part of two decades. No, the affair of which I speak was not with one of the beautiful southern belles that make up 60 percent of the student body, but rather with a dirty, disgusting…
Read MoreAN OVERNIGHT SUCCESS…25 YEARS IN THE MAKING
Ted Williams. The name of a man beloved by generations of Americans throughout the decades. A name that conjurs up memories of ballparks, home runs, and heroic slides into homeplate. Over the years, the name Ted Williams has become synonymous with excellence in baseball..until now. Another Ted Williams has emerged and grabbed America by the…
Read Morethe house SPECIAL
When I entered the Nashville music scene in 1994, it wasn’t long before I was rubbing elbows with some of the biggest names in country music. Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Alan Jackson…I was rubbing elbows with all of them. Truth be told, it was usually when I was reaching to refill their water glass, but…
Read MoreLessons from the back of the pack
Had you been standing next to me the morning of July 26th, 2008, you would have been standing on the shore of North Carolina’s Lake Cammack watching the sunrise. Had you been standing next to me on July 26th, 2008, you would have found yourself surrounded by 500 people preparing to compete in the Mission…
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