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Mythic Heroes for Today’s Business World.

Author Ayn Cates Sullivan and host Bart Jackson delve into the myths and heroes of eld to reveal practical solutions for today’s business folks.

Which is your better bet? Drawing your inspiration and role models from today’s latest, fleeting tweet – or from a mythic heroine/hero whose tales reach across the millennia and still fill millions with wisdom?  Get set for some fun.  Host Bart Jackson joins award-winning author Dr. Ayn Cates Sullivan, who has penned “Legends of the Grail – Stories of Celtic Goddesses” and “Heroines of Avalon,” to discover the truths which we still quest after today.  Together, they examine specific business challenges and journey back to into the enchanting myths of eld to find solutions.  Sharing the deep well of Celtic heroines and divinities, Ayn proffers guidance for businesswomen, while Bart, attempting some gender balance, turns to the lore of the ancient Greeks and their heroes for answers.  What wisdom lies in the souls and stories.  https://www.theartoftheceo.com/episodes/mythic-heroes-for-todays-business-world/

What You Don’t Know About IT & Who Can Fix That

Isn’t it about time that technology started serving you better? Wouldn’t you like some understanding mentor who sorts through the avalanche of Apps and set to work those tools that boost production and profit?  Host Bart Jackson brings you exactly that kind of IT master in his guest Darek Hahn, President & CEO of VelocIT.  Taking a general contractor’s approach to an organization’s IT needs, Darek offers for your selection more effective technologies to help sales, operations management, accounting, marketing and communication. He also details a blend of hiring and contracting methods to make sure you have the best possible IT wizards working on your goals, at the ready, when you require them.  Tune in and learn how to make yourself master of your technologies.

Info-Tech master Darek Hahn guides you into finding better advisors and better ways to employ the technology tools at your disposal.  About time isn’t it?

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Podcast – The Future of Feeding our Planet – the AeroFarms Solution

It’s not just for marijuana any more.  AeroFarms has put the scientific concepts of aeroponic farming on steroids and today is producing tons of its Dream Greens – non-pesticided, wholly organic leafy vegetables that scale easily into urban centers.  Host Bart Jackson invites AeroFarms cofounder Mark Oshima to tour us through his headquarters farm located in a resurrected factory in central Newark New Jersey.  Marc explains the science that allows a 350-times-per-acre yield of his crops, and the benefit of placing the greatest nutrition right amongst the greatest density of consumers. Marc also details how AeroFarms is able to compete with the food giants; how he has turned the aeroponic gospel into a wildly successful community outreach; and why this farming revolution may be a major key to feeding our planet.  Tune in and learn why the most popular gang to join in Newark is the aeroponic farmers group.

The Future of Feeding our Planet – the AeroFarms Solution

Celebrating Small Business Week – May 5 – 11

Your Temporarily Small Business and those 28 million other small U.S. businesses around you supply 120 million Americans with jobs.  That’s more than one third of our nation’s population.  You contribute $8.5 trillion to our nation’s $17 trillion GDP.  Oh, and by the way, 48.7 percent of all new businesses launched in the past decade were started by first generation immigrants.

Lessons?

  1. a) The 18,500 large companies with 500 or more employees make a marvelous competitive frosting on our economic cake. But they, and we, depend on the other 28 million firms to do the rising.
  2. b) The only place we want to be sending our immigrants is down avenues of further opportunity.

 

And as to wisdom?  Here are just a few of the insights that temporarily small business owners have passed our BartsBooks threshold in just the past two weeks:

– I cannot possibly pay my people what they’re worth, so I always make sure to pay them promptly.

– We glance occasionally at the prize, but most of our time is spent negotiating the ground beneath our feet.  That’s what will get you there.

– Marketing? We hit a heck of a lot fewer people, and gain a heck of a lot more sales by making personal phone calls to old clients and new ones.

– The key is not how much inventory – but which day – which hour you buy it that makes the profits.

– I cannot think of one job in this whole shop that each one of us does not put his hand to at some time or other.

Wishing the large and the small every success,

– Bart Jackson

Association for Corporate Growth Innovation Awards

On May 3, the ACG New Jersey Chapter held its annual conference and awards ceremony honoring the state’s leaders in innovation and excellence.   At the panel four honorees shared their insights:

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Laurel Whitney, CEO & Founder PUSH Beverages

“Innovation is a lot easier when it flows from the clients up.”

 

David Barnett, Chairman Corsis, which guides technology investors using its own TechIndicator software.

“The more we innovate, the more we can free up our clients’ resources – and that’s how we build our base and credibility.”

 

Paul Sullivan, Senior Vice President, Int’l Acrow Corporation of America.

“We look to hire people who are knowledgeable, of course, but who also have that gleam of intellectual curiosity in their makeup.”

 

Dr. Michael Zedalis, President & COO, Tingley Rubber Corporation

“We make a basic product: rubber suits and rubber boots.  But we set a vision to make 20 percent of our revenue from new products; and that vision sparks many small…a whole river of improvements along the way.”