In A View from the Roof - Lessons for Life & Business, Presidential award-winning speaker Dr. Calvin Mackie offers a virtual BlackberryTM of lessons that will inspire and direct your life to greatness. Through a slideshow of poignant vignettes and laugh-at-loud anecdotes, Dr. Mackie highlights the practical wisdom of his father, Willie Mackie Sr. - the uneducated sharecropper's son who built a thriving roofing business of 100 employees with a truck, a ladder, and a whole lot of attitude. From the hot gable rooftops of New Orleans to the set of a Spike Lee film, this book explores the extraordinary journey of the Mackie men and leaves you with a view you'll remember forever!