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  <name><![CDATA[John Eckberg]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[     John Eckberg is a career journalist. Widely published, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today and many other American print and Web publications. A former business reporter at The Cincinnati Enquirer and weekly newspaper managing editor at the Canal Fulton Signal News – we cover you like the morning dew - he is also the author of The Success Effect: Uncommon Conversations with America’s Business Trailblazers (Sterling &amp; Ross; 2008); Have A Crumby Book: Wit and Whimsy from Cincinnati’s Favorite Bakery (Clerisy; 2007) and co-author of Road Dog (Federal Point Publishing; 2005), a true-crime thriller about serial killer Glen Rogers of Hamilton, Ohio. A Cincinnati resident, Eckberg currently has several other projects underway, including The Mud Daddy Chronicles, a 265-page recipe book and fishing memoir of 25 years of annual fishing trips, and The Obama Bounce, a look at the Obama stimulus package. He is the creator of Fascinating Ohio, a page-a-day calendar, and Pot of Gold, a best-practices business book.

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  <title><![CDATA[The DNA of Success: Uncommon Conversations with America's Business Innovators]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Road Dog]]></title>
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