Tate Publishing and Enterprises was recently featured on ABC Television affiliate KOCO Channel 5 as a part of their summer road tour of Oklahoma. The entire news staff and production team visited the Tate offices and print facility, and even featured our newest division, Tate Music Group.

Tate Author Candee Fick and her book Pigskin Parables were recently mentioned in a terrific article in the New York Times concerning Christian publishers and football. Pigskin Parables combines aspects of the game of football, personal anecdotes, practical examples and Scripture to illustrate biblical truths about life from the perspective of Fick, the wife of a high school football coach.

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Leadership lessons bring author success

 
By Paula Burkes
Business Writer

A few days after it was released on Feb. 5, Oklahoman David Lewis’ new book — “The Emerging Leader: Eight Lessons for Life in Leadership” — ranked No. 2 in sales among new business leadership books on Amazon.com.

 
His publisher, Mustang-based Tate Publishing, keeps sales confidential, Lewis said. But for at least one day in its debut week, Lewis’ book topped Donald Trump’s newest in Amazon sales.

 
” We trumped Trump,” said Lewis, a Piedmont resident and area manager for Express Employment Professonals in Oklahoma City.

 
Lewis’ isn’t a memoir of someone’s long career.
” It’s a manual from someone who’s in the trenches now,” he said, “and for 20-somethings to 30-somethings — or Millennials and Gen-Xers — who want to get ahead in a world dominated by baby boomers.”

 
Lewis, 27, said his book grew out of the speaking and writing he did during his unsuccessful run in 2004 as the Republican candidate for the District 88 seat in the state House of Representatives, won by incumbent Debbie Blackburn, D-Oklahoma City.

 
” We were walloped with only 35 percent of the vote,” Lewis said.
Still, he’d do it all over again, he said.

 
” Stepping out and saying ‘I want to lead,’ puts you in a vulnerable position that develops you,” Lewis said. “It cements you on what’s important: your principles and values.”

 
Overcoming disadvantages
In the first chapter of Lewis’ pocket-size, 104-page book, the reader learns fast about those values.

” All excuses indicate an attitude of entitlement,” Lewis writes. To be successful in business, one can’t believe he deserves certain privileges, he said. “Everyone has their own set of disadvantages.”

 
Still, by age 24, Lewis not only was running for office but also had broken $9 million in gross annual revenues as manager of Express’ north Oklahoma City office. He got his start in the staffing industry at age 18 and later interned for U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts.

Examples of success

In his book, Lewis points to lives and experiences of a variety of leaders, from Noah and Teddy Roosevelt to college basketball coaches and friends. Choice advice includes:

• Anticipate something will go wrong and do a little extra work to compensate.
• Spend more time developing and protecting the morale and culture of your team than worrying about external conditions.
• Ask yourself if you did better today than yesterday.
• End relationships that dull success.
” The Emerging Leader” is available at most major bookstores and at Amazon.com.

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Rockford author pens children’s book

Rockford author Dr. Mitchell M. Olson teaches children the effect that even the smallest act of love can produce in his new children’s story released nationwide titled Grandma Nola.    

Published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises, Olson tells the story of a poor, young farm girl who ventures to the big city all by herself to follow a dream. The unique love she shares with her adopted pet proves to be a generous example of unconditional love that eventually inspires the adoption of a grandbaby and draws the admiration of her whole family.

The book is available at any bookstore nationwide or can be ordered through barnesandnoble.com, amazon.com, target.com or directly from the publisher at orders@tatepublishing.com.

Grandma Nola is an eLIVE title, meaning every copy contains a special code redeemable for a free download of the audio version of the book from the Tate Publishing Web site ( http://www.tatepublishing.com).

Olson was adopted at 6 weeks of age, and his mother, Jeanne, was Nola’s daughter.

He earned a doctorate in education from Fielding Graduate University and teaches at Walden University and Judson University. He resides in Rockford with his wife, Sharon.

from the July 9-15, 2008, issue

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High school coach’s success began with Chamberlain

By Jim Halley, USA TODAY

PHILADELPHIA — Some of the best high school basketball players in the country walked past Cecil Mosenson, scarcely noticing him last week at the Reebok All-American Camp. He blended in with the nearby trophy case at Philadelphia University, with its fading basketballs, aging victory nets and trophies.

What would Mosenson, 78, know about dealing with today’s high school basketball, where the top players are recruited by hundreds of schools, recruiting deals are made under the table and players are looking for ways to circumvent NBA rules to turn pro early?

The answer is plenty, apparently. Mosenson coached Wilt Chamberlain in high school.

“He was the best player ever, not just the best that I’ve ever saw,” said Mosenson as he sat in the lobby signing copies of his new book, It All Began With Wilt. “There was no one that had that coordination, that strength, the agility.”
MOSENSON THE AUTHOR:

Has written three books

Mosenson was only 22 and just six years from playing for Overbrook (Philadelphia) when he took over the team at his alma mater and inherited Chamberlain, who was then a 6-11 junior with spindly legs.

Because of Mosenson’s inexperience and Chamberlain’s stature, the player frequently tested his coach. Before one game, Chamberlain entered the warm-up drill wearing a beret, a white scarf and sunglasses.

“I said, ‘You’re not playing like that.’ ” Mosenson said.

For most of the game, Chamberlain sulked, refusing to shoot, before taking over the game in the final moments.

 
Teams frequently double- and triple-teamed the big man and one even tried to use a five-on-one defense. But the only guy who could keep Chamberlain from scoring was Mosenson.

 
” We played against Roxborough (Philadelphia) when he was a junior and he scored 71 points,” Mosenson said. “We were going to play them again and the players were (goofing) around in practice and I threw him off the team. I told him, ‘Either you’re going to practice hard, or you’re not going to practice.’

I told the principal to prepare a press release for the AP (Associated Press) and the UP (United Press), that I just threw Chamberlain off the team.

He said, ‘Wait until Monday and see what happens.’

 
” Monday, I passed Wilt in the hall and he looked the other way. At practice time, he showed up. He started walking over to me with the ball and I thought he was going to hit me with it. And he said, ‘Coach, would you teach me how to shoot a hook shot?’ And it was his way of saying sorry. … and I let him score 90 points in the game until I pulled him out. He only played 28 minutes. He scored 15 points in one minute.”
Chamberlain had offers from 120 colleges as a senior.

 
” He was not interested in talking to a lot of them. So they went through me,” Mosenson said. “He didn’t know who (legendary Kansas coach) Phog Allen was when he came to recruit him. He said, ‘Who is this guy?’ ”

 
Allen offered Mosenson a job as an assistant in hopes of getting Wilt to go to Lawrence, Kan. While Wilt signed, Allen couldn’t deliver on his promise to Mosenson because Allen shortly thereafter had to take a mandatory retirement at 70.

 
” (Wilt) really wanted to get out of the city,” Mosenson said. “He wanted to go to a big campus, to a big school where there was a lot of national publicity. Kansas was the school that had the most incentives.”

 
Chamberlain spent three years at Kansas and decided to turn pro early with the Harlem Globetrotters before going to the NBA. Ironically, Mosenson, after playing for Temple, had once played for the Globetrotters’ foil, the Washington Generals.

 
Mosenson began his coaching career with two city titles, thanks in large part to Chamberlain. Mosenson went on to win more than 300 games, but he never again had a team as good as the ones with Chamberlain.

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