The cognitive business skills for starting, running, and succeeding at a business venture can be gleaned from books and learned from business schools. But there is no entity that can equip an entrepreneurial candidate with what economist Joseph Alois Schumpeter rather romantically described, back in 1912, as "the will to conquer, the dream and the will to found a private kingdom, and the joy of creating, of getting things done." Most successful entrepreneurs...

Over forty million people attend minor league baseball games each season. Who are they? Why do they come? Let's find out! Noted social scientist Harris Cooper took a job as a Seating Bowl Host for the most famous minor league baseball team, the Durham Bulls. As a host, he helped fans find seats and other stadium amenities, made sure everyone was safe, took pictures, and chased kids from the aisles. He got to talk with a wide-ranging assortment of...

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1997When Richard Maverick" Helm walks out the gate of the state penitentiary, after four hard years inside, he doesn't know what life he has left waiting for him. Abandoned by the love of his life, a stranger to his only child, Maverick turns to his club, the Brazen Bulls MC, and holds on.But he's not sure of the club any longer, either. The Bulls have changed since he went inside, and they'd all but forgotten him.Before Maverick...

Tulsa, Oklahoma, Christmas 2001. Roland "Fitz" Fitzgerald is having the worst holiday season of his life. His blood family is falling apart, and his chosen family is badly hurt and struggling to get back on its feet. He became a member of the Brazen Bulls MC to find brotherhood and a purpose for his life, but everywhere he turns, all he sees are dark shadows. There was light in his life once, but he lost it long ago. Kari Kovacs' life isn't perfect,...

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1995.Conrad Radical" Jessup, Sergeant at Arms of the Brazen Bulls Motorcycle Club, has life just about where he wants it: he's free of a bad marriage, and his club is cruising along healthy and strong, their business relationships as solid as their brotherhood. He's a contented man, riding his road at his speed.Until a massive highway wreck brings a blonde on a little sportster crashing into his life.Willa Randall is making a new...

THE CONCLUSION OF THE BRAZEN BULLS MC SERIESTulsa, Oklahoma, 2002.Gary Becker never wanted to lead. He hates to be the center of attention, and he doesn't feel up to the job. But Delaney shocked the Bulls when he retired and set aside the gavel, and the Bulls shocked Becker when they unanimously voted to hand that gavel over to him.Now he's the president of the Brazen Bulls MC, and he's trying to figure out how to deserve that new flash on his chest,...

"A twelve-year-old girl learns to ride bulls in order to be close to the famous bull-riding father she lost long ago"--