Dan J. Harkey

Master Educator | Business & Finance Consultant | Mentor

Personal Growth & Development

A practical guide to getting better results in your work, your time, and your life.

If you’ve collected enough advice to fill a bookshelf but still feel like your calendar owns you, you’re in the right place. My articles focus on the successful practices that move the needle: goal setting, time management, sales and relationship-building, negotiation, more intelligent time allocation, and reinventing yourself when the old version stops working. Less inspirational theater. More execution.

Most people don’t fail from lack of talent—they fail from drift. I write about how to build clarity, protect your time, strengthen relationships, negotiate better outcomes, and create a repeatable system for progress. Practical, direct, and occasionally funny—because growth is serious, but it doesn’t have to be grim.

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Burt Bacharach, composer, songwriter, producer, and pianist, composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950’s to the 1980s—one of the all-time greatest.

Burt Bacharach’s innovative approach to pop composition should inspire admiration and appreciation among music enthusiasts, highlighting his role as a pioneer in shaping the modern pop sound.

Shirley Bassey, Singer with an Expressive Voice and Recordings of Theme Songs.

Career from the mid-1950s to the present.

Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers.

Blues, jazz, and swing. Tours with an 8-piece “little Big band.”

“All Hat, No Cattle”:

The Phrase That Exposes Empty Swagger

Rodgers and Hammerstein II: Duo Composers from 1920 to the 1960s

Duo composers Richard Rodgers and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. Careers from the 1920s until the 1960s and later.

Ennio Morricone: Italian Composer with 100 Scores in Cinema

Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpet player, composed more than 400 scores for cinema and television. Also has more than 100 classical works.

Maurice Jarre, Pioneering Film Composer

French composer and conductor, Active 1958 to 2001. Collaborations includes Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Train (1964), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) Lion of the Desert (1981), A Passage to India (1984) Witness (1985), Fatal Attraction (1987) and Ghost (1990), A Walk in the Clouds, and many others.

Kay Kyser,

Band leader and radio personality between 1926 and 1950

Lionel Hampton,

jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bank leader, whose career spanned over 50 years. Active from 1927 to 2002.

Ayn Rand-Part VI of VI

Legacy, Influence, and Modern Debates

Russ Columbo,

Baritone, songwriter, violinist, actor, Active 1921-1934.

Jimmy Dorsey,

Clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and prominent band leader. Brother Tommy. Active 1920-1957.

Ayn Rand’s Fiction: -Part V of VI

Philosophy in Storyform

Ayn Rand— Altruism on Trial: Part IV of VI

Rand’s Most Controversial Idea-

Ayn Rand vs. Collectivism: -Part III of VI

A Lifelong Battle

Ayn Rand’s Objectivism: Part II of VI

The Four Pillars of a New Philosophy

Capacity vs. Capability: Part II

Why Smart Decisions Require Both

Capacity vs. Capability: Part I

Why Smart Decisions Require Both

Inside America’s Battle to Restore an Accountable Government: The Coming Clean Up:

Subtitle: The Bloated Bureaucracy Reckoning- How the New Mandate of Tackling Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Is Reshaping Washington.

Throw Someone Under the Bus

You’ve heard it in politics, business, and office drama: “He threw her under the bus.” It sounds brutal—because it is. But the phrase didn’t start as a meme; it grew out of British political slang and then exploded into modern English.