News & Notes

Since its founding in 1750 Princeton University’s library has labored to aid curious individuals in their search for wisdom.

by Bart Jackson
https://princetoninfo.com/firestone-library-a-renovation-for-the-mind/

Jacque is one of eight honorees to be celebrated On Thursday Sept. 19th 2019 at the Hennessy Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University.
email info@bartsbooks.com or call Bart at 609-529-1927 for more information and registration.

Lightning is as whimsical as Fate, and can be as destructive as Congress. Last Wednesday eve, amidst the hurl of the storm, the wincing crack of thunder and explosive glare of lightning came simultaneously, targeting the transformer on the pole not too many feet from my front door. All those blinking reminders of electricity’s luxurious necessities fled into the night. And the landline phones with them.

Bart publishes in US1 his tale of loss of electricity –  https://princetoninfo.com/when-the-lights-go-out-a-morality-tale-from-the-dark-side/

Amid all our brief electrus-interruptus, we received a cell phone call from our utility provider.

“Oh dear,” the customer service agent inquired, “are you still with out power?”

“No Ma’am,” I replied. “We are never without power. We just don’t have any electricity.”

Come Join Us at the      Prometheus Social Enterprise Awards

Recognizing those founders of inventive enterprises that are transforming the world.

Thursday, September 19 @ 4 p.m., we invite you to the Hennessy Mansion, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Madison Campus

4 p.m. – Torchbearer Talks.

Each Award Honoree will offer a talk detailing their vision and enterprise. A reception will follow. Public and press are invited. Cost is free.  Talks will be videoed and made available.

6 p.m. The Awards Reception, Dinner, and Ceremony

This is your chance to dine with, personally connect, and interview these highest achieving benefactors from across the globe and the corporate leaders whose firms support them. Registration is required for Reception, Dinner and Awards Ceremony. Cost is $75 per person.  To register contact info@BartsBooks.com.

The Prometheus Awards are created by Prometheus Publishing’s CEO Bart Jackson, and his hard-working team in hopes of holding to light new role models for the entrepreneur and celebrate the contributing energies of the human spirit. We welcome aid from all those aligned with this mission. 

To add your support or learn more about Sponsorship Opportunities call: 609-529-1927.

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.