Author: Carolyn Ezzo

Prometheus Publishing announces its Prometheus Awards recognizing those exceptional individuals who by their personal example and their inventive enterprises enrich the human community and shed light into our world.
On September 19th, at the Rothman Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurism at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Madison Campus, beginning 4 p.m., you’ll have the opportunity to hear, meet, and connect with those inventive social entrepreneurs from around the globe whose compassion, vision and enterprises have greatly improved our society and planet. Prometheus Publishing CEO Bart Jackson invites you to attend the Torchbearer Talks and Awards ceremony. To learn further details, and read profiles of the honorees, contact us at info@bartsbooks.com.

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?
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.

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

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.

“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.

Conspiring with fellow business cronies – (from right) Angelo Zappala, Mark Reisman, Allen Kohan, and Tom Frederick – at the latest Association for Corporate Growth breakfast. Our topics of chatter? Why data alone makes lousy marketing; What are truly valuable ways to recognize your fellow chaingangers at work, and why New Jersey is the Neiman Marcus of states for business – you pay more and get a lot more.

The Prometheus Awards recognize those exceptional individuals who by their personal example and their inventive enterprises enrich the human community and shed light into our world.

Right now Prometheus publishing is conducting a call for Nominations – so if you know an individual – an idealist who is putting his or her creative sweat and energy into a project that is enriching some corner of the human community, for-profit or non-profit we invite you to share their rays of hope and nominate them as candidate for a Prometheus Award.

You may  nominate a candidate by visiting https://bartsbooks.com/businessess-best/ and complete the short nomination form.  Or you may email info@bartsbooks.com sending your name and contact info, the candidate’s name and a brief description of their accomplishments.

For further details on the Awards ceremony,  what honorees receive etc. or to – or to nominate a candidate – we invite you to write to Info@bartsbooks.com

Prometheus was the ancient Greek Titan who defied the gods and brought to humankind the gift of fire.  From that light onward, there was no going back.

Enmeshed in the warm exchanges and generously shared tips at the National Speakers Association – NYC chapter meeting last Friday, April 5, I quickly realized why this group is noted for its friendly atmosphere. If you’ve got something to say, here’s a fine group to broaden your megaphone. Yet as experienced and talented as all these speakers are, we were all Tsunamied by the tales, tips and engaging demonstrations by guest speaker Steve Spangler. This amiable magician’s son has blended innate talent with a bold mix of dogged persistence and creative fun to become very justifiably one of America’s most sought-after speakers, along with founding Steve Spangler Science, The virally popular Sick Science, Be Amazing Toys and many other projects to humorous to mention. Steve’s best speaking tip: “Don’t give the audience words or activity – give them an experience.”

Wed. Jan 24. President & CEO of Maxons Restorations, Inc. Damon Gersh stepped to the podium to receive The Art of the CEO’s Community Contributor Award. In presenting the award, host Bart Jackson noted, “We were looking to praise that firm which labors continually to serve and improve the community around it, and the people at Maxons Restorations have embraced that giving spirit, helping bring back hope to everyone from the victims of hurricane Sandy, to the congregation of historic Trinity Church after the 9/11 attacks.” As part of the award, Damon Gersh is invited to appear on The Art of the CEO radio show as featured guest. In accepting, Mr. Gersh said, “It is a great honor to be singled out and rewarded not only for the work we perform, but the passion our entire team puts behind it.”

The Art of the CEO’s Community Contributor Award was presented as a finale to the CEO Report’s Corporate Culture Awards celebration in which 24 companies from the NY – NJ – CT region were honored exceptionally engaging their entire staff and “making it a pace where A players love to work.” The event was held, amidst great fun and frivolity at Times Square’s newest entertainment theme park, the NFL Experience.

Veteran Director with CFO Consulting Partners, Eileen is now seeking to bring the large-corporate accounting advantages to mid-size firms with her new entrepreneurial venture.  To take advantage of Eileen’s talents contact: eileenxethalis@gmail.com

Aug 2nd – How does one lift up a home from flooded shore and heft it to a high hill?