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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:

From left

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.”

Bart Jackson reveals: The Unsettling Settling of Australia

or  History & Pre-history Revealed

What was the real reason that the British government rounded up its prisoners and poor and transported them 14,000 miles to Australia in the dawn of the nineteenth century?  What are the tribal skills and DNA that have allowed Australian Aborigines for 60,000 years to thrive as the world’s longest continuous culture?  What advantages has made the crocodile Australia’s unrivaled predator since Cretaceous times? Speaking before the English Speakers Union on March 31st at the Lawrenceville School, Bart Jackson laid bare the intriguing truths about the Australia’s inhabitants and how they arrived and flourished in the island continent.

The World’s Longest Race & Toughest Security Challenge

Belt & Road Relay Race: thousands of athletes, running across 63 countries 90 days…Stephen Ward tells how he provides security for it all.  Here’s how it’s done.

One of the most global and most aggressively expanding banking institutions worldwide has just launched its 90-day Belt and Road Relay Race involving thousands of runners through 63 nations, 44 separate markets in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America. And Stephen Ward, Managing Director of Insite Risk Management has undertaken the ludicrously difficult task of providing security for each runner, press person, spectator and official involved.  Host Bart Jackson invites Stephen to share the stories of how this planet-spanning race is being run and how he is handling this logistical Everest of setting up a secure environment for it all.  ‘Tis an amazing tale which will help you comprehend the expansion and intricacy of today’s global commerce.   www.theartoftheceo.com

Cyber Threats & Defenses

“China is a company masquerading as a country,” stated Alfred Berkeley former NASDAQ CEO and Board Chair of Security First.  Recently, I attended the Nassau Club meeting in Princeton, NJ where Al and three FBI security specialists outlined potential cyber-threats and cyber warfare tactics, including China’s clear plans to dominate several global industries, by any means available.  Chatting with Al and the FBI agents afterward I picked up two fascinating news bits: Good news –  we now have chips large enough to automatically encrypt data (e.g. stock transactions) as they occur, thus protecting data immediately.  Unsettling news: China subsidizes its manufacturers with a 17 percent rebate on each deal. Thus Chinese makers can bid and produce at a 10 percent loss and still turn a profit.