The Art of the CEO: Recent Episodes
The Art of the CEO
What does it take to rise to your goal? To become CEO of Your Own Career – of Your Business? Host Bart Jackson, joined by the most fascinating and most helpful guests in business, bring you a lot of fun, humor, and vital counsel from proven masters. So pull up a chair - get informed, get entertained, and seize the wisdom. Visit http://www.theartoftheceo.com/
Welcome to the wild west of post-plague hiring. The single-skilled job slot – tight workplace structures – even the old employee/contractor/consultant distinctions have been swept away. Victims of Covid. In their place, established firms now clawing their way back to profitable operations are looking for performance wizards. Those multi-skilled businesspeople who can reach across department lines and do what it takes to get the product made, marketed, and sold. Host Bart Jackson lays out practical methods for shifting your presentation from skill sets to results architect. He also lays out plans for you to profitably partner your talents with the flood of over 5 million businesses launched in 2022. Tune in and learn how to re-sculpt yourself into a renaissance businessperson and best seize the opportunities in this wide-open post-covid market.
It doesn’t matter who signs the paycheck or who owns the company. An entrepreneur is that businessperson who employs all her skills, creative sweat, and inventive ideas to launch something new – and improved – and constantly improving. Entrepreneurial employees are the ones who devote their energies to the whole firm’s mission, help all their coworkers, and get promoted – and maybe leave to start their own enterprises. Host Bart Jackson rolls out true biz tales of such salaried entrepreneurs as mentoring examples. You’ll discover strategies for understanding the entire company’s process – turning customers and coworkers into allies – getting your ideas accepted – and make yourself a valued company asset. Tune in and learn how to rise out of wage slavery up into career fulfillment.
How do you keep the fire lit? You’ve scrambled over the startup hurdle where you’re lying awake wondering if the company can ever find its first clients – but you sure do not want to rest & rot on this new plateau. Host Bart Jackson brings on the solution to your ambition’s prayer with guest Ibrahima Souare, Executive Director of New York Professional Advisors for Community Entrepreneurs. Ibrahima and his non-profit NYPACE team guide countless of young firms through avenues to fresh capital, structuring for efficiency, luring top talent, successful sales strategies, and the magical art of leading the company team as Chief Executive Officer. For businesspeople who have planned a clear, definite destination, Ibrahima and the advisors of NYPACE help pave the roadway. Tune in and discover what to jettison – what to keep to help you clear your venture’s next hurdles with even more grace that you took first one.
They’re Your words, why not have a little fun with them? Why not promote your language to Personal Creative Director dedicated to presenting your stellar ideas in ways that everyone will remember, repeat, and best of all, envy? Host Bart Jackson unleashes his own irrepressible (alas) tongue and fountains forth a cache of verbal tricks, clever phrasing techniques, and word-wise ammunition guaranteed to pack your speech with the power and attention even you believe it truly deserves. And as a gleeful dabble into word weaponry, Bart also offers a talon-sharp course on creative insults – including ultimate bullying putdowns. Good vengeful fun. Tune in and learn how to wreathe your thoughts with the power of lightning, rather than the flickering, forgotten glow of the lightning bug.
How do you work when the old office disappears? You reach into your inventive imagination and create new ways to reach out. Host Bart Jackson brings forth a broad-ranging Remote Work vision designed to help you master this new freedom and seize the opportunities. With an entrepreneurial approach, Bart guides you through home and mobile office setup; managing the oceans of unstructured time; building bonds and communication flows, and even the art of remotely feeding your personal ambitions. Executives also are proffered effective methods for efficiently achieving unity from afar. Tune in and discover how to keep business personal and fun from wherever you are participating.
There can be little argument: your mind is the most powerful, yet least explored personal asset under your care. It embraces that mysterious bundle of synapses, the storehouse of experiences, the near-limitless panoply of driving emotional responses – and, of course, the Self – that nebulously defined essence that is both with and apart from all it beholds. Author Chris von Hassett’s Entering Your Mind meditatively guides you on a practical journey, helping you recognize the wondrous fullness of your own mind in its natural state. The road he offers, Dzogchen practice, is an old and proven one, born in Tibet, and modified to suit our current bizarre lifestyles. Host Bart Jackson brings Chris on air to share his methods of growing the understanding and immense potential of our own minds. Tune in and learn how to tear away the boxes of society’s concepts which hamper the freedom of our minds, and so many parts of our lives.
Does the very word “Virtual” make you wince? Are you sick of trying to make your face look awake online? Boy, have we got the solutions for you. Host Bart Jackson with a little laughter and a lot of insight lays out the entire video conferencing experience and how you may master it – have fun – and ferret out all the opportunities.
From selecting a provider, right up to developing your final sign-off line, Bart lays out the strategies, tips and techniques that will show you and your priceless ideas to their best advantage. This show covers everything from setting a backdrop, to handling blowhards, to the art of active listening – even a brief Zoom Manners Guide (drinking – Yes; eating and dozing off – No.) Tune in and discover why video conferencing is here to stay – except for choral singing.
Quit your misery-mongering. Yes, my friend, you are living in an era of unprecedented triumph, compassion, and boundless reasons for Hope. Your depression has no basis in fact – and we overwhelmingly prove it in this show. Join us as Host Bart Jackson takes an honest assessing look at the plague – the political situation – global business profile – the market - and a number of individual heroes & heroines. Bart objectively spreads out before you the monumental achievements being made – and the many opportunities awaiting you. Tune in and learn how to stop focusing on the hand we’ve been dealt – and start focusing on how deftly humanity is playing it.
Laura Doherty, President/CEO of the Baltimore Curriculum Project is the person you call when you want to take a failing school, with failing students, and turn it around into an enthusiastic temple of learning, filled with eager, achieving students. Host Bart Jackson invites Laura on board to share her business-like approach to this very human challenge. From developing a distinctive alphabet print format to make reading easier, to bringing faculty, parents, and community to bear on each school’s unique situation, Laura’s BCP team proves that public schools can and do work. Now, as schools struggle with the challenge of the Covid Crunch, and preparing for the post-Covid Catchup, Laura reveals what methods and mindsets will prove most effective. Tune in and pay attention, class - you are about to learn an educational strategy that not just for kids.
Key Han has done it - no more dams, no polluting smoke – just 30 years of sweat and genius to produce this revolutionary, vital energy solution. By inventing submerged turbines that churn unseen on river and ocean beds, Key Han has created a cheap, continuous, clean energy source that when adopted will save our planet and meet our exploding energy needs. Host Bart Jackson invites Differential Dynamics CEO Key Han to answer all the questions about his hydrokinetic river turbines: How much energy? What cost?
Conflict: everyone wants it resolved first, in here/his own favor – and peacefully, if possible. Everyone except Dr. Andrea Bartoli, international peace negotiator who with amazing success brings warring factions to the table and hammers out solutions with peace as the primary aim. As a leader in the Christian lay community, Sant’Egidio and founder of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, Bartoli is the man divided nations such as South Sudan, East Timor, Poland, and others call upon to settle their dangerous differences. Host Bart Jackson invites Andrea on board to share his sought-after conflict-resolution techniques, and provide some insights how the U.S. needs to handle its destructive divisions. Tune in and discover from the master a more effective way to get what you want at work, home, and all aspects of our lives.
Signmakers do not have a great call for signs reading “& Son” being added to company logos. But Rick and Jack Newcombe stand as the very model of making this generational shift seamlessly and simultaneously pivoting with massive market changes. In 1987 Rick Newcombe launched Creators Syndicate which he rapidly grew into the most prestigious print media syndication firm nationwide. Creators shared the talents of advice columnist Ann Landers to both Clintons and Wizard of Id comics, with thousands of papers and 44 million readers. Enter son Jack in 2009 who saw the downward of spiral print media and hooked Dad’s star talents into the digital media platforms – plus book publishing and more. Host Bart Jackson invites Creators.com CEO’s Jack and Rick on to share their story and wise example. And as an added feature, learn about the art and benefits of lifelong passion in his new book “The Magic of Lifting Weights.”
Inner-city, socially disadvantaged young people – government says they need computers. Schools say they need college. But Trenton NJ-based serial social entrepreneur Bruce Boyd is wiser. Bruce knows the need is to cultivate character, and to expose them to the shining light of opportunity, which he insists lies within their grasp.
Host Bart Jackson invites Bruce Boyd to explain how his Building Our Youth Development enterprise has gathered such a devoted following and become a transformative force for so many of Trenton’s young people. Then, when the crash of Covid dismantled several structures (both within schools and outside), Bruce details how he pivoted his organization to find new avenues and even advantages. Tune in and take a lesson on how to transform your own enterprises to survive/thrive in adverse times.
How would you form an enterprise to combat gun violence in your home city? John Thompson, witnessing 26 shootings in 27 days in Yonkers, formed the SNUG program (guns in reverse) that reduced shooting crimes by 86 percent in his town. Host Bart Jackson invites John to tell his astonishing story, and provide insightful strategies for all aspiring social entrepreneurs. Going straight to the source, John forged relationships with gang leaders and shooters, working with them to set up alternative pathways. He engaged the entire community. John’s courageous tale is not to be missed. Honored by the 2020 Prometheus Social Enterprise Awards, John is an inspiring organizational leader, providing an example and advice worth following. Tune in and discover how practical idealism works effectively.
Do you cross your workplace threshold, shouldering a crushing load of judgment, posturing, competition, politics, and trying to meet other people’s goals? Alas, that puts you in the majority. But you deserve a lot better and noted coach Jonas Altman lays out a pathway that will lead will lead you toward a more fulfilling and productive approach to work. Author of bestselling Shapers – Reinvent the Way You Work and Change the Future, Altman explodes the old myths of society’s work attitudes and helps you design your own. The whole concept of why we work and what we expect from our job/career has exponentially evolved just within this past decade. Tune in and discover how much more than your daily bread you can be gaining from your place of work.
With 20 percent of America’s work force now jobless, and one in five businesses wondering if they’ll see 2021, donation-based charities have fallen on rocky times. And further, they are squeezed against the hard fact that the number people desperately seeking charitable aid are exploding exponentially. To shed a ray of practical hope, host Bart Jackson calls on guest Tosha Anderson, founder of The Charity CFO who expertly guides all-size non-profit enterprises toward organizational and financial health. Tosha discusses the structural shifts and new mindsets must leaders make to swim, not sink, in the Covid environment. Who are the new sources of revenue? What is the most effective approach to partnering with them? What are the new, multi-task requirements for staff and board members? And what new financial reporting tools can transform the one-time donor into a dedicated funder? Tune in and discover more effective strategies for growing your non-profit, or your for-profit organization.
Today we blend some revealing truth with a lot of laughter. On the Ides of last March the lights Broadway went dark. Swiftly across this Covid-stricken nation, shows did not go on and the entertainment/performing arts industry vanished from our culture.
How long can show biz and its performers endure the shut down? What are the creative solutions? How will the performing arts re-emerge? Host Bart Jackson brings into the spotlight renowned standup comedian Eddie Brill. For 17 years, Eddie was the warmup comic for the David Letterman’s Late Show, and for more than a decade served as the show’s talent coordinator. And while we have Eddie shackled to our studio, he will pull back the curtain and share what it takes to make it as a professional comedian, how to deal with agents, and what kind of laughter we need in our lives. Tune in and hear intriguing personal tales of comedy’s kings, past and present.
Have you dined out lately? When it comes to the slamming blow dealt by the Covid pandemic, the food industry stands in the top three hardest hit. Restaurants completely shutdown indefinitely; farmers forced to dump unsold crops while charities scrabble to erect food chains to the hungry; meat packing plants turned into infectious hotspots, and on and on. Host Bart Jackson brings the nation’s top food industry expert and former CEO/President of the Food Institute, Mr. Brian Todd to lay out the entire spectrum of the challenge. Honestly - how bad is it now? Is America ever going to be able to feed itself again? Will we get back – or if not back – what will be the new forward? Brian Todd shares the with us the current paving steps on the road toward food industry recovery, and what adaptations will be required to make this breadbasket nation meet the global food needs. Tune in and learn how you will be food shopping and dining in the future.
Is the time to invest when blood is running in the streets, as the legendary Nathan Rothschild claimed? Certainly, the Coronavirus assault has bled white our physical and financial portfolios, and set us all in unprecedented times. In response, host Bart Jackson brings aboard Life Science and High Tech industries’ noted expert Steven Katz with a ray of very pragmatic hope. For over three decades Steve has guided healthcare and high tech firms, serving within as board member and in leadership positions, and without, as invited turnaround consultant. Steve notes that these two industries – the ones we are pushing forward as our Covid-19 defense - do hold solid opportunities for helping your personal finances survive and even thrive. Steve reveals an insider’s wise, sensible strategies for finding the potential investments, and determining their value and durability. Tune in and discover a path toward fiscal health in these bewildering times.
Do you ever stop to think just what's so funny about Business? Probably not frequently enough. And while business is a vital part of all our lives and society - it is, after all the way we get things done - it involves people, good old Homo sapiens, and therefore naturally holds a deep well of chortles and belly laughs. Host Bart Jackson is back on air this time sharing a rich supply of that good humor. So get set to laugh as Bart wields his half vast supply of business witticisms, many of which may be found in his upcoming book "In the Words of My Wife's Husband... 'Tis a little laughter vaccine which inoculates you taking today too seriously.
Welcome to the Art of the CEO’s 300th Anniversary show. Would you like to hear the wisdom of a seventh-generation oyster fisherman – how the archeologist of the world’s most successful pirate’s sunken ship is amassing another fortune – how to emulate the entrepreneur who exploded with a thousand sales in one day – before he even had a product – the funniest repartee ever made by an IP attorney? Host Bart Jackson has culled the most hilarious and helpful moments, along with wisest counsel from the hundreds of guests gracing our studios. This tri-centennial episode distills the essence of our best, and fondly recalls the fun. Tune in and learn from the nation’s top negotiator how President Donald Trump reveals his fears by inadvertent bits of body language.
Do your personal investments reflect your personal values? Can you put your money into socially conscious enterprises without sacrificing profits? Alfred Berkeley, former NASDAQ CEO and Director of the World Economic Forum USA says resoundingly, “Yes you can” – and proves it. Host Bart Jackson invites Al Berkeley back on the show to detail how he artfully launched the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fund (the “do-gooder” fund which backs companies dedicated to the U.N’s 17 sustainability goals.) Al explains the power and planning of how socially conscious investing can work for you. And – don’t miss this – Al Berkeley also reveals the selection strategies and approaches you need to take as you enter the market with your own hard-won cash. Tune in and learn how you can do well by doing good.
First the good news: The Nonviolent Peaceforce for 18 years has successfully protected civilians in conflict zones by sending unarmed peace keepers to square off against heavily armed opponents. Now the better news: increasingly they are gathering allies in every corner of the globe. Host Bart Jackson invites Nonviolent Peaceforce founder Mel Duncan to describe the many newly burgeoning organizations that are responding to violent conflict with unarmed strategies. Mel examines the reason for these new groups coming into existence, their achievements, and the why their specific tactics are so effective. Further, Mel talks about his Unarmed Civilian Good Practices Project and the collaborative conventions of global peacekeepers. Tune in and discover the forces that are positively halting destructive violence.
The art world stands as living proof that pure talent will not always carry you to the higher strata of the financial heap – or even assure your fiscal survival. Host Bart Jackson invites on board Ms. Trudy Borenstein-Suguira, multi-talented, multi-media, and markedly successful artist who has survived and flourished in a variety of artistic endeavors. After paying her dues as starving art student, cum freelance artist, Trudy rose to become custom designer/creator of jewelry for the most discerning clients of Cartier and David Yurman. Her pieces are even showcased in the Smithsonian. Then, from that pinnacle, she opened her own enterprise and in addition to jewelry launched into an astoundingly original and mode of collage portraiture that has her made sought after and brought in a growing stream of commissions. Tune in and learn how today’s flexibly talented artist may sculpt a career that feeds both body and soul – while bringing enrichment to us all.
Can you imagine the worst possible business environment for a team of top technological talent? Well, veteran CTO and novelist Gene Kim has embraced this vision in his blunder-laden “The Unicorn Project” in which every business SANFU and stumbling block heaps upon our heroine Maxine. Host Bart Jackson brings Gene aboard to discuss the real life wall that so destructively separates managers from technological professionals, to the detriment of all. With wit and insight, Gene poses solid solutions for removing the barriers of suspicion, communication gaps and faulty structures. And the outcome of Gene’s allegorical tale? Fear not. The unsinkable Maxine, with the aid of a shadowy guru brings the Five Comppany-Saving Ideals into play, that – no surprise – hold true equally in the tech room and the C-suite. Tune in and learn ‘em.
Under the guidance of PeaceTech Lab’s team, young peace builders worldwide are learning how to create cell phone alert systems warning people about incoming bombs, invading terrorist recruiters, and possible hate crimes. In its brief five years, PeaceTech Lab has trained 1,300 organizations in 16 countries how to use tech tools to reduce violent conflict, and helped 36 startups disrupt the cycle of violence. Host Bart Jackson invites PeaceTech’s founding CEO Sheldon Himelfarb to roll out his multi-faceted campaign for sustainable peacebuilding. How can AI halt hate speech that leads to hate crimes? How can community-launched media make life-saving impacts? Tune in and learn what a peace engineering Masters degree might mean to your life – and the lives of others.
Megan McNealy insists that doing well in your career does not magically produce well-being, but the reverse can indeed be true: a personal state of well-being can drive your career joyfully forward. To prove her point, Megan goes straight to the achievement-envy list, from the CEO of Starbucks to the board chair of Tesla, to discover and share the well-being attitudes and disciplines of the successful. Host Bart Jackson invites Megan to discuss the 18 spokes depicted in her just-released book Reinvent the Wheel – How Top Leaders Leverage Well-Being for Success. Get set for a few arguments and challenges as Bart hurls doubts at several of Megan’s cherished suppositions. Tune in for a fascinating dialectic guaranteed to help you better craft your own well-being.
Business is the pillar of our economy. The family stands strong as the backbone of our society. Together, they form the institution of family business - the old reliable that keeps us all afloat. In the U.S., family firms provide nearly two thirds of the jobs, 57 percent of the GDP, and the majority of our community leaders. Dr. Dale Caldwell, Executive Director of the Rothman Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, joins host Bart Jackson to show how government and investors neglect them, and other corporations see them only as merger fodder. Dale explains the specific advantages that major family-held companies, (Oracle, Berkshire Hathaway, Volkswagen, Koch Industries) possess over other comparatively sized firms. Further, Dale details both the challenges and profitable perspectives of the small family-held firms. Tune in and learn the perks and problems of working all in the family.
Immediately following the September 11th devastation in Manhattan, private citizen Lisa Orloff displayed the desperately needed ability to organize all the volunteers into a life-saving, recovery force. From this platform, Lisa launched the World Cares Center, training and coordinating volunteers into a Ready Responders Network that effectively reacts in the face of disaster to reduce suffering and restore communities. Host Bart Jackson invites Lisa to share her tales about resurrection campaigns waged in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, Superstorm Sandy and catastrophes worldwide. Lisa details the management strategies of empowering volunteers, the art of forging working connections with other non-profits and private businesses, and helping communities save them selves in mid-crisis. Tune in and learn how a master unites individuals and organizations with coordinated tasks, all feeding a common goal.
When celebrity fitness trainer Ramona Braganza visited her ancestral city of Mumbai India, she witnessed the horror of human trafficking and was compassionately determined to aid its victims. She began training young rescued girls as fitness instructors and encouraged them toward independent careers as trainers in India’s burgeoning fitness industry. Recently awarded with the Prometheus Social Enterprise Award, Ramona joins host Bart Jackson to tell the story of how she created her 3-2-1 Empower charitable foundation to continue defeating human trafficking at home and abroad. Tune in and discover some solid takeaways on founding your own social enterprise.
No clear, inspiring message ever comes out of a disorganized presentation. All audiences instinctively look for a speaker’s train of thought – that logical pathway leading to the ah-ha moment of the comprehensible conclusion. Yet it is in the organization that so many presenters fall down, leaving listeners lost in a muddle of details. To help you keep your presentations on track, host Bart Jackson brings on board Stephanie Scotti, CEO of Professionally Speaking, coach to scores of Fortune 100 C-suiters, and author of Talk on Water – Attaining the Mindset for Powerhouse Presentations.
Stephanie guides you through the crafting of a talk that captures listeners’ attention and crescendos to a message that moves people to action. She shares techniques that funnel in details as amplifiers, rather than distractions. Tune in and learn the secret to the simple brilliance that makes so many TedTalks hit home.
Are you giving yourself and staff the best technology for top production? Is there a better system for communicating within the office – with our customers – from department to department? Host Bart Jackson joins with information technology master Darek Hahn, CEO of VelocIT for some straight talk about better ways to blend your business processes with the latest online tools. Too often systems development is handled by businesspeople talking to tech wizards, each in an entirely different language. Hahn a veteran of both worlds bridges this gap between need and capability. Tune in and learn how to integrate the vital knowledge within your company.
It’s a tsunami of selections. Books, podcasts, webinars, seminars, speeches, formal courses - business learning offers flood your desktop and mailbox daily. You know you’ve got to keep on training to survive, but how do you sift through it all and find those precise nuggets of advice that are worth the investment of your precious time, and cash? Host Bart Jackson lays out a strategy for finding the exact training you require. Medium by medium he goes through each way of learning – from experience to the formal MBA – telling you how to evaluate each offering, and how to prepare yourself to glean the very best from each one. Tune in and learn how to judge the value of a podcast and how to seize optimum value from a business book.
Today’s marketing has shifted from massive, one-pitch-fits-all campaigns to customized marketing based on your individual behavior. In a previous episode “Hidden Persuaders of A.I. Marketing,” top digital marketing authority William Ammerman told how the drivers of psychotechnology and big data were engineering this more personalized approach. Now host Bart Jackson invites William back to reveal how You and your business can do it.
Author of The Invisible Brand, Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Ammerman lays out how this persuasive process is being employed by companies of all sizes. Carrying it further, he details how it may be adopted by religions and nations to wrench our minds and allegiance. Will machine engendered persuasions be more effective? Do we still need the human touch? Will there be a Homo sapiensbacklash? Tune in and learn how cyber-seduction may ethically serve your business and your customer.
Today, we buy-to-own less and rent-to-use more. Autos, entertainment, meals, transportation, dwellings, and laundry soap are being purchased via subscription. Host Bart Jackson invites back marketing visionary Robbie Baxter, author of The Membership Economy and The Forever Transaction to discuss how business of all types and sizes can get in on this new action. As consumers shift from the age of personal acquisition to the age of subscription, businesses face a truly disruptive way to new profits. Robbie guides you through the labyrinth of subscription pricing, marketing, and the whole new realm of customer relationships. Tune in and discover this futuristic way to build customer loyalty.
Somewhere out there a connected network of very, albeit artificially, intelligent machines is gathering vast amounts of data about you, your activities, your preferences, even your personal health. All the better for some company to more effectively customize its marketing pitch to you. Host Bart Jackson invites top digital marketing-and-A.I. authority William Ammerman to explain how machines are tracking, sensitively interacting, and nudging the decisions of we humans who created them. Author of The Invisible Brand, Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Ammerman explains the psychotechnology revolution that brings billions of marketing messages into play, and how machines literally transform these messages into learning experiences to improve their goals. Tune in and discover how the digital realm of cyber-seduction is changing our society and ourselves.
Somewhere out there a connected network of very, albeit artificially, intelligent machines is gathering vast amounts of data about you, your activities, your preferences, even your personal health. All the better for some company to more effectively customize its marketing pitch to you. Host Bart Jackson invites top digital marketing-and-A.I. authority William Ammerman to explain how machines are tracking, sensitively interacting, and nudging the decisions of we humans who created them. Author of The Invisible Brand, Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning, Ammerman explains the psychotechnology revolution that brings billions of marketing messages into play, and how machines literally transform these messages into learning experiences to improve their goals. Tune in and discover how the digital realm of cyber-seduction is changing our society and ourselves.
You’re a solid speaker, fairly adept presenter, but now you are moving up into the big leagues. You are called before CEOs, Boards of Directors, and Congressional committees – an impatient, sophisticated audience that doesn’t tolerate mediocrity even slightly. Host Bart Jackson invites to the microphone C-suite presentation coach, speech pathologist, and author Eileen Sinett, CEO of Speaking that Connects. Together Eileen and Bart discuss
The more technical points of honing your personal style, intonation, dynamics, pace, the value of theme repetition, and the power of silence, and much more. Tune in an learn when to employ audio visual aids and when it distracts from your presentation.
Both the enjoyment and business of wine have exploded across the U.S. Every state in the Union boasts several wineries and for most, it is their fastest expanding form of agriculture. America’s consumption and its appreciative sophistication continue to hit all time highs. Host Bart Jackson sits and sips with American Wine Society director Dr. Gary Pavlis as they discuss the reasons and the trends behind this industry’s growth. Taking us out into the vineyard, Gary explains how the finest vintages are crafted in the field, what distinguishes a winery of renown, what high tech implements are boosting yields, bettering blends, and saving arduous labor. Stepping up to the tasting table, Gary lays out ways to more enjoyably savor and broaden your wine horizons. And for the would-be winepreneur, here is your opportunity to learn the optimum plan, pitfalls, and potential profits of winery launching. Tune in and see if a wine tour of Tuscany is the vacation you truly deserve.
Real estate boasts the highest return with the least understanding that investors ever make. It is the largest single purchase for families (more costly than divorce.) It’s the toughest of trades in hot-spot cities worldwide, and it’s tougher still when buying & selling for the wealthiest elite. Yet New York real estate master Luciane Serifovic handles it all with deceptively easy-seeming grace. Luciane joins host Bart Jackson to share her tale of how she rose from trainee to founding CEO of Luxian International Realty, supplier of high-end luxury to the highest end clients. What are the best tech tools employed by top realtors to showcase properties and unearth clients? What are the future, game-changing trends? Tune in and take a realtor’s view from the penthouse.
How do you think generations Y and Z should be educated and trained for entry into business? Host Bart Jackson invites educational changemaker Mark Perna who offers revolutionary ideas on how we should train our children – the purpose of colleges – and how better to fill business’s skills gap. What makes this episode such fun is that, while both Mark and Bart have a passionate concern for younger generations, they differ immensely on educational principles, strategies, and even goals. So tune in and watch them debate as the chalkdust flies. Mark, founding CEO of TFS Results (tools for schools) and author of Answering Why: Unleashing Passion, Purpose, and Performance in Younger Generations holds a more skills/career solution, while Bart, author of CEO of Yourselfand The Art of the CEO, concentrates on mind development and personal fulfillment. Here’s you chance to find some fodder to help you forge your own beliefs.
Your unique personality, just as you have it right now, is all you require to lead, expand your firm, and reach your own career goals. Forget all those success mongers who seek to transform you into some cookie-cutter image of previous high achievers. Under the banner of Grow – Don’t Change, psychologist Dr. George Watt and his fiscal wizard partner Laurie Blazek have founded Top Line Talent Coaching that sets you on the path to discovering your strengths and employing them most profitably. Host Bart Jackson invites both George and Laurie to discuss their process for realizing your innate personality, how to brand yourself as a leader, and develop an action plan based on the powers you’ve probably been neglecting. Also, they lay out some tactics for maneuvering those downside-aspects of your person that could set your business off course. Tune in and learn how to make the most of what you’ve got, from a husband and wife team that know what it takes.
What does it take to fly with the Blue Angels – flying jets at Mach 1, wingtips inches apart, forming terrifying maneuvers with the world’s best aerial acrobatic team? John Foley, former Blue Angels lead solo pilot joins Host Bart Jackson to tell exactly what is the right stuff to reach this rarefied air. And, more important to you, John translates the art of cultivating those vital abilities into your own career. Whether you are leading yourself or an entire corporation, John lays out a pathway for your achieving, as his book titles it, “Fearless Success – Beyond High Performance.” John’s personal example and insightful strategies guide you in connecting to a purpose greater than yourself, battling petrifying fear, earning trust, gaining respect, and the resiliency to gain a Glad to Be Here mindset. Tune in and discover just how high you can take yourself.
Brian Todd, President of The Food Institute, reveals who’s feeding consumers best today and what food shopping will be like tomorrow. Supermarket checkout is changing. Will mobile checkout work? What will the new supermarkets look like? How will plant based foods fare? Smaller packaging for small families and food for one.
Hungry to learn what the food consuming public is demanding in the future – or how stores will change to accommodate new buying habits? Host Bart Jackson brings you one of the planet’s greatest food experts, Brian Todd, President of The Food Institute to discuss the battle of plant-based vs. meat burgers, why women select differently from men, where the most nutritious food lies, and all the steps involved in that intricate dance between food retailer and food consumer. Brian’s insights and prognostications will truly amaze you. Tune in and learn what will happen to the checkout line.
When your career and/or company are pressed back to the wall, how brightly does your decision-making ability shine? Host Bart Jackson gives you a chance to find out. In this episode Bart lays before you a series of all-too-real business decisions, along with several considerations to take into account. Then he reveals the choice each business leader made, and the results that followed – for better or ill. Tune in and test your powers in ethical, financial, personal encounters – and even learn if you have the wisdom and backbone to match that of Mark Twain and a few modern luminaries. Great fun – great lessons.
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.
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.
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.
Nicholas Donofrio has spent the last two decades as a restlessly inventive board member of the Bank of New York Mellon and the last four decades as IBM’ most prized scientists, currently holding that firm’s top honor: IBM Fellow Emeritus. Host Bart Jackson sits down with Nick and discusses the new roles of corporate directors in today’s business climate, why and how the American work force needs to retrain, how financial institutions must/will shift in the forward march of technology, and how all of us, in every organization, must guard against the shackles of tradition. Tune in and gain the lofty perspective of one of businesses’ grand masters.
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.
There’s a gold rush on, but everybody else is after that mother lode. You want to launch a stock exchange, but the big competing exchanges already have the major companies under contract. Publishers find themselves undercut by the great self-published book avalanche. In each case, one very clever individual stepped into these impossible situations and discovered a unique and wildly profitable solution. Host Bart Jackson sets up a series of real, crushingly challenging business climates and then introduces you to those inventive entrepreneurs who made the most out of what nobody else envisioned. This is the ultimate takeaway show. Tune in and learn how to explode the eyes out of a jack-o-lantern, and then transform such tricks into global fame and more companies than your magician father ever dreamed of.
What can climbing a Himalayan mountain teach you about yourself? What can exploring the vast polar snows or remote jungles teach you about leading your business team? Worldwide adventurer and expedition organizer, Ms. Julie Lewis takes leaders of self and corporations to those wild lands where exhilaration and self-discovery go hand in hand. Founder of MountainHighMe, Julie joins host Bart Jackson to discuss their own treks from Tibet to Tierra del Fuego, and exactly what new resources people learn to draw upon when they rise from the swivel chair and venture into the unknown corners of God’s Eden. As an added bonus, Julie, a certified resilience specialist will offer listeners the opportunity of testing, measuring, and growing their own personal resiliency. Want the ultimate business or personal retreat? Tune in and discover how aspirations and solutions are fueled by Nature’s voice.
Of America’s 260,000 professional fitness trainers, Ramona Braganza has muscled herself up to the pinnacle. As celebrity fitness guru to stars, Ramona and her lavish fitness trailer are regulars on the Hollywood sets for the likes of Anne Hathaway, Michael Weatherly and more. Her 3-2-1 Fitness, Nutrition, and “Loose the Baby Bulge” books and tapes are best sellers. Host Bart Jackson invites Ramona to discuss her climb up the physical fitness ladder, and to tell of her 3-2-1 Empower project in which Ramona rescues victims of human trafficking, giving them hope and training as fitness instructors. Tune in and learn the sad truth about how human trafficking is a global tragedy – and the inspiring story of how it may be defeated.
The Chief Financial Officer serves as dream-maker. He/she takes that audacious vision of the CEO, fuels ‘er up, and puts enough financial wind beneath its wings to ensure its taking off. Host Bart Jackson invites on board veteran CFO Wayne Ackerman, founder of Seaview CFO Solutions, to open his three-decade book of experiences and share some fascinating tales about the CFOs relations with CEOs, Directors, and those all-important investors. How does a wise CFO tether his directors to financial reality? Groom her CEO’s understanding of complex revenue deployment? And present numbers that set banks and investors salivating? Tune in and learn the delicate line the wise CFO must trod to play profitably with others.
How can kin keep company and turn a profit? Few folks have better solutions than family business’ sage master, Tom Hubler. Since 1980, Tom has guided family firms in forging both emotional and fiscal equity, planning succession, and juggling individual roles in this dual union. Tom Hubler joins Host Bart Jackson as they take a refreshingly human approach to the intricate challenges of building a common family value in which all may profitably participate. How does a family firm discover its soul? How do you manage family rank vs. business rank? How do you shift from an entrepreneurial shop into a professional company? Tune in and learn business success and family love may mutually feed each other.
The World Economic Forum is arguably our best hope for a sustainable future. Established in 1971, this global organization for public and private cooperation gathers the world’s foremost leaders in industry, business, academics, the political realm, and the arts to sustain and improve life on our planet. They hammer out and set new agendas for sustainable resource distribution, climate change devastation, investment security, technology management, and all major global challenges. Host Bart Jackson invites former Forum Board member Alfred Berkeley to guide us through the practical solutions the world’s elite minds are putting into practice. Tune in and learn the benefits of human ingenuity and creative sweat in forging our more livable world.
What happens when you blend your own business with your personal mission? Rob Woods, founder of Ethical Adventures, guides intimately small groups deep into Australia’s remote Northern Territories in a way that brings a whole new perspective to our human role as stewards of the land. Host Bart Jackson invites Rob Woods from way down under to explain why Ethical Adventures has been voted “unarguably the best tour experience in the Northern Territory” – what we need to learn from 60,000 years of Aboriginal history – and how we may best preserve this mysterious land. Tune in and learn how exciting fun and profit dwell amiably with Jaburu, crocs, and wallabies.
They are in your face all the time: those poisonous personalities who torpedo the team, undermine your achievement, and take the fun & profit out of your workday. How do you handle or just plain squash these toxic folks? Host Bart Jackson and a select team of consulting experts bring back a fresh crop of challenges and solutions in this year’s Impossible People show. Tune in, laugh, and learn the clever ploys for foiling The Artful Opposer, The Mood-swinging Boss, The Bean-counting, Bottom-liner, and other thorns on the wrong side of progress.
So who is winning the “negotiations” between the U.S. President – Congress – and the party leaders? Who committed the masterful blunders and who employed that subtly clever tactic which you need to be copying in your own business negotiations? Host Bart Jackson brings on The Master Negotiator Greg Williams to tease apart the political chess games employed by America’s leaders, to tell you what worked, why it worked, and what moves we might expect in the future. Globally renowned negotiator and body language guru Greg Williams is sought after to both instruct C-suite executives and to handle Fortune 100 corporate mergers. Tune in and get the expert’s take on the art of these political deals.
GPS Girl Karen Jacobsen’s ever-calculating voice guides over half a billion travelers over roadways, and, by her own life example, points the way toward making the most of each opportunity. Host Bart Jackson invites Karen on to tell her story and help you recognize a potential windfall – and discover new advantages. Since emigrating from Australia to the Big Apple, Karen has blossomed her singing and voice-over talents into an array of business speaking tours, popular albums, books, media appearances, lifestyle guidance, and a new venture to be announced on this show. Tune in and discover those hidden situations that can send out sturdy and profitable branches to your own career.
So here you sit, having carved your way up to a hopefully secure middle management slot, chaffing. You’re eager to move on up to a major decision-maker position and really employ your expertise to best advantage. You know where you need to be. You just need guidance in choosing the route. This is your show. Host Bart Jackson brings to your aid executive developer Ron Carucci, founder of Navalent consultants and author of Rise to Power- The Journey of Exceptional Executives to yank you off that career plateau. Together, Bart and Ron discuss the specific problems challenging middle managers, scrutinizing those who rise and those who remain mired. Tune in and discover new avenues of advancement.
Marriage is a legal, emotional, occupational, religious, financial, child-rearing, home-owning, sexual, and union. And when that union falls apart, the divorcing woman requires help in all those areas. After her own divorce, attorney Karolina Dehnhard realized that her family law practice, offering only legal counsel was simply inadequate. Host Bart Jackson brings Karolina on board to discuss how she has developed her Divorce Dynasty that advises and aids all the clients areas of concern. Tune in and take this example of customer-based growth to heart. You too may transform and raise your business from green grocer to full-service supermarket.
Maestro Roger Nierenberg knows the techniques, actions, and attitudes demanded to lift an orchestra – and each musician - to peak performance. They are the exact same leadership moves required by business executives to inspire their teams to the top. Host Bart Jackson discusses The Music Paradigm, Nierenberg’s inventive program in which C-suiters are mingled amongst the musicians at an actual rehearsal led by this Maestro, and biz folks observe leadership demonstrated in a tempo accelerando. The Paradigm holds up a stunning, if not always comfortable mirror to business leaders. And the top exec teams from YouTube, Bank of America, Kellogg, and BBC are praising and paying Nierenberg for the valuable enlightenment. Tune in and learn how artfully directed music makes Caesars of the savage biz execs.
Jerald O’ Kennard holds what many would call thedream job in the dream company. He and his firm, The Beverage Testing Institute, make a very tidy living sampling and competitively rating hundreds of the best wines, beers, and hard liquors from across the globe. Their clients send their latest vintages, praying for a high quality score and counting on the wise counsel offered by the BTI to help them improve and better sell their product. Host Bart Jackson sits and sips with Jerald as they discuss the latest trends in wines et al; why Scotch is making a comeback; exactly how drinks get scored; and the real value of this information to both public and manufacturer. Also, for your own entrepreneurial edification, tune in and learn exactly how this system of comparative, critical marketing works, and how you might apply it to your own industry.
If you can memorize the order of 59 packs of playing cards in a single sitting, you might, says Guinness World Records, give Dave Farrow a run for his money. Host Bart Jackson brings on this astounding memory phenomenon who has given his own expertise a run for the money by packaging his memory system and selling over 10 million copies. Employing his same method of intense study and mental agility, Dave has innovated an uncannily effective program to help you monetize your own unique skills. ‘Tis a proven and huge success for the scores of top clients in his Farrow Communications. Tune in and learn to share your temporarily hidden talent more profitably.
What would you really like to have happen in your business…life… career in 2019? And more importantly, what changes do you need to make – what seeds do you need to plant now to bear fruit in the upcoming year? Host Bart Jackson helps you reflect back and cast your eyes forward with a series of New Years Resolutions that you may joyfully keep, and are guaranteed to deliver fun and profit within the next 365 days. What do you think? Would this be a good time to discover new llies…take your values and sense of humor to work…master your time and conquer one old nemesis? Tune in and take some practical tactics for achieving that better you – which, after all, is your best and most marvelous asset.
You can feel it when it’s really good – and you can smell it when it’s not. A company’s culture comprises the way it does business, the way staff and management interact, and more importantly the spirit and values behind those interactions. And wise corporate leaders are finally discovering that they can direct and encourage that organically growing culture. How? Host Bart Jackson gives solid discussion with corp-culture expert Bretton Putter, founding CEO of London-based CultureGene, and author of Culture Decks Decoded. Mr. Putter explains why a value-driven, positive corporate culture is vital for obtaining top talent – and keeping them. He blazes the path for turning your firm’s culture into a tangible asset. Tune in and learn the dollars and sense of proactively crafting the culture of your business.
How can a remote enterprise create inventory all year, then distribute it entirely within one winter’s evening? As the crunch time draws near, how does the jolly old saint and CEO urge his elves on to peak performance, but still mysteriously keep that festive, joyous aura throughout the workshop? What wise counsel does Ms. Claus provide behind the scenes? Just how competitive is it to win a slot pulling Santa’s sleigh? Host Bart Jackson imports Saint Nick’s Chief Executive Elf, CEE Jeanne Murphy fresh from the North Pole to answer these questions and unravel a score of mysteries that put Santa on the enviable top of every child’s list. Tune in and learn the many real and timeless truths this less-than-lean manufacturing team has to offer us all. Ho Ho Ho.
Thirteen American working people are dying every single day on the job. And internationally renowned occupational safety expert Phil La Duke is mad as hell about it. Host Bart Jackson unleashes the fireball La Duke who slams the blame squarely on lax and hidebound safety inspections, criminally negligent managers, and a deliberate disregard of working conditions by the business community at large. In his An Iconoclasts View of Workers’ Safetyand other writings, La Duke shows how concern for workplace safety has become the bleeding stepchild we ignore and place behind a wall of compliance regulations. But more than pouring out a gravy boat of venom and blame, La Duke lays out the practical steps and attitude adjustments that will halt these nearly 5,000 workplace deaths per year. Tune in and learn how to cultivate a better conscience, and profitably free up your workplace from fear.
What Ah-ha moment shifted Madonna out of the audition rut onto stardom’s track? What new perspective help transformed a rank and file missionary into the renowned savior of an African nation?
And most important – how can YOU expand and enrich your work life into a fulfilling career journey? Host Bart Jackson lays out a career planning strategy that lifts your vision. He helps you toss away the blinders that confine career to a series of jobs and list of skills. And using stories of several well-known individuals who have soared or sank, he helps you choose freely where to place your precious energies. Tune in, taste the opportunities, and learn the special career secret Millennials know that oldsters can’t see.
If you are very wise, or very greedy, or both, you want to give your team the very best incentives that encourage each member’s peak performance. Trouble is, that’s a surprisingly tough order. Most traditional reward systems motivate less than 10 percent of the staff. Further, not every individual gets absolutely inspired by the same enticement. CoreCentive sales director Tom Frederick joins host Bart Jackson to discuss the delicate art of designing an incentive program that boosts production, and the entire team’s morale. Employing uncommon sense, Tom discusses what elements are required to energize even the largest corporate teams, and why most popular programs end up being non-inclusive, carrot-dangling failures. (After Tom explains it, it all seems so obvious.) Tune in and learn how to make your workplace more exciting, profitable, and cohesive.
Leadership is an active verb. It is performed in swift succession throughout your daily encounters with all the folks you meet – with those you need to influence. Host Bart Jackson brings on board Chris Westfall, wise counselor to the Global 500 C-suite and current US National Elevator Pitch Champion. In his latest book, Leadership Language, Westfall explains how people want to follow that individual who carries an authentic mission and message that she can express succinctly in all situations. And to prove it, Bart will offer up a series of business situations and invite Pitch Champion Chris to provide an inspiring response. (Some fun.) Tune in and learn how brevity can be the soul of motivation.
Isn’t about time people started listening to you? Time you got the influence you deserve and the reactions you require? Presentation coach to President Carter’s cabinet and major C-suiters, Ms. Stephanie Scotti lays out an incisive, masterful strategy that will have you taking command of the podium and speaking effectively.
For the last 24 years Stephanie’s Professionally Speaking firm has provided individual and team mentoring for individuals facing the often fearful challenge of presenting their ideas in all business situations. You can catch the Scotti method by reading Stephanie’s recently published Talk on Water - Attaining the Mindset for Powerhouse Presentations– or you may tune in and listen to Coach Scotti dissect the verbal ramblings of host Bart Jackson, as he delivers them right on the air. If Stephanie can repair this host, there is great hope for you, my friend.
Remember those too-brief times when you operated at your absolute peak performance? The right decisions, words, solutions just seem to come. Remember feeling exhilarated and surprising yourself with your own level of production? And then it seemed to fade. Well, hitting these peaks is no mystery, nor matter of luck, insists Dr. George Watts, psychologist, Board Chair of Top Line Talent, and veteran business coach to global 500 C-suiters. Host Bart Jackson invites Dr. Watts on to lay out tactics and an overall strategy for erecting a peak performance platform. No cheerleading here – this is very real. Employing a series of uncommonly sensible attitude adjustments, and planned disciplines, Watts sets the path for your further achievement. Tune in and learn how to sustain that business excitement we all crave so much.
Who are the most popular fraud targets? The U.S. and state governments. Why? Governments cannot possibly police each of their millions of transactions. But beware you Medicare false claimers, overcharging defense contractors, sales tax skimmers, and bill-padding construction contractors. An explosively growing army of honest employees await to blow the whistle on those illegally slicing your tax dollars into their own pockets. Host Bart Jackson invites noted qui tam (whistleblowing) super-attorney Andrea Fischer to reveal how upright citizens with an aggressive judiciary are bringing cheating firms to justice. Founder of the Fischer Legal Group, Andrea cites specific cases, describes the whistleblowing process and the retaliation protections. Tune in and learn about those valued individuals who refuse to tolerate corruption in our democracy.
If your job is to make and sell seemingly magic thin films, four-atoms thick, that keeps computer chips and solar cells literally lightning fast, where in the world do you find the latest innovation? And when you do, how do you profitably take advantage? Host Bart Jackson brings on a CEO for whom these are daily questions. Paul Burlingame, head of Air Liquide Advanced Materials is constantly inventing new ways to work better within the traditional semi-conductor bastions, like Japan and Korea, as well as the emerging centers in Switzerland and Finland. To this constant global hunt for mushrooming talent, invention, and clients, Paul brings an immense international agility, enabling both his team and his company to play profitably in a myriad of cultures. Tune in and learn the techniques for taking global advantage, as well as how the current trade wars are dealing rabbit punches to our tech development.
Where does your free speech end and workplace harassment step in? Can my company make humor - and romance – a punishable crime? To answer these dicey legalities and to sweep away the miasma of harassment law misunderstanding, host Bart Jackson brings on the cogent counsel of veteran state and federal employment law attorney, Marc Garbar. Delivering some uncommon sense to this sensitive set of statutes, Marc lays out what does and does not legally qualify as harassment, what preventative initiatives wise employers are establishing, and if there is any redress available to the wrongfully accused. Tune in an learn how you can get instant legal solutions using Marc’s new Harassment App (for real).
There is nothing cookie-cutter about being an executive – no template, no recipe gives you the prowess you need to inspire people, design profitable tasks, and keep your firm growing. Your most effective way to learn the ropes comes from talking with your peers – veterans who have faced and are currently solving challenges akin to yours. Host Bart Jackson brings on the man who is the master at engineering beneficial peer groups, James Millar, CEO of Skybridge Associates and author of Building Bridges – The Case for Executive Peer Networks.Together Bart and James discuss how to design an effective peer group, how to find one that suits you, and the many benefits you can garner from a peer group that networking can never match. And as a bonus bit of learning, tune in and learn from James, former head of admissions for Harvard’s MBA program, the real value of an MBA today.
Get set to laugh, chortle, snicker, and jeer. Host and noted Quips Meister Bart Jackson rolls out the tomfoolery with a full episode of business quips. Firing off one joke after another, along with some insightful afterthoughts, Bart points his rapier half-wit and begins poking much fun and a few pointed holes in the pomposities and foibles of those in business. Bosses – CEO’s – Wage Slaves - Investors – Board Members – everyone comes under the gun and in for the fun. Isn’t it jolly well time that someone got you to stop taking business & yourself so seriously? (Seriousness and political promises have the same track record.) So tune in an learn why a sense of humor will make you 76 percent more successful at work - and why 57.9 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
By popular demand, fresh from last week’s episode, Host Bart Jackson brings back America’s greatest food expert – Mr. Brian Todd, President of the Food Institute. This show, Brian looks beyond America’s current food obsession and focuses his nearly four decades of research and insight on the industry that brings it to our table. How does the cross-global supply chain transform once-seasonal delicacies into year-round staples? Are we capable of feeding our 7.6 billion population now? Can we continue? Will nutrition fall and prices soar? Is “genetically engineered” a threat or salvation? Do mega-corporations dominate what we eat? Will they in the future? Tune in and learn the full story from farm to fork of this most vital industry. (Please bring your own popcorn.)
Ralph Welborn insists that a business revolution is underway that will make the old, stand-alone firm profitably passé. Instead of grinding out the stuff that a company makes best, forward thinking businesses are now seeking out major problems, actively collaborating with other firms to build solutions, add value, and grow exponentially. Host Bart Jackson invites globally-noted business strategist Welborn to explain how firms are morphing into cooperative ecosystems which unlock greater value – and rewards. Together they discuss Welborn’s latest book Toppel which details how the new business ecosystem works and how firms of all sizes may successfully ride this new wave of future. Tune in and learn what Amazon, Morgan Stanley, and Berkshire Hathaway are cooking up – and how your firm can beneficially adopt this new model.
Undeniably, Americans have become food-obsessed. Celebrated chef Anthony Bourdain dies and the nation goes into mourning. Food guru Rachael Ray’s popularity rivals any star in Hollywood. Everyone watches the food-preparation channel and then goes out to eat. Why? How? What’s happening in our culture and the food industry? Host Bart Jackson invites this country’s top food expert, Mr. Brian Todd, CEO of the Food Institute delve into this food phenomenon. Brian brings his nearly four decades of endless research and knowledge to bear and explain the actual truth about nutrition in foods we buy; the supermarket and restaurant revolutions; the rise of takeout; expanding global food networks; and future dining habits. Tune in and learn how industry and culture waltz together from farm to fork.
America’s business people are killing themselves and destroying their businesses with misplaced workaholism. The national obsession with long work hours, and the myth that 24/7 work focus is the sure key to success are keeping us from the very goals we are shooting for. Host Bart Jackson is joined by financial wizard Aaron Edelheit who personally has driven himself through the grinding mill of work fanaticism, and has come out the other side with a vital and sensible solution: The Hard Break. Every week, Aaron insists, we need to take a Sabbath – a full day of complete, unplugged, re-creative 24 hours away from our career and business. Yes, you need this, and Aaron scientifically proves why our bodies, minds and spirits thrive under the hard break. Tune in hand learn how to increase your productivity, while grabbing a lot more fun out of life.
Beer has Guinness, watches have Rolex, autos have Rolls Royce, and when it comes to the entertainment industry’s top awards, nobody beats David Moritz’s Society Awards. His elegant custom sculptures range from the Emmy’s and Golden Globes to Dancing with the Stars’ Mirrorball and MTV’s Moonperson. Host Bart Jackson invites David up to the mike to share the story of his charisma-driven rise to the pinnacle of the awards field, and to relate his unique design process that keeps the top clients coming back. Tune in and discover how the US Soccer SheBelieves Cup and the Billboard Music Award each evolve from idea to tangible, unique art.
And learn from David Moritz that truly, there is always room at the top.
We all know that women are one of the two greatest assets any business requires. But what do today’s women of business require? What do they demand? What do business leaders need to understand about those ladies who contribute so profitably to their company? Host Bart Jackson brings The Art of the CEOshow to the acclaimed Metro Women’s Leadership Summit recently held in New Jersey. He interviewed scores of businesses’ top leaders who gave insightful advice, discovered how women of business currently are viewing their situation, and he even got answers as to the true feminine advantage in business. Tune in and let the ladies surprise you.
Whatever the public medium, being interviewed as a person of interest is the best career and company boost you can wish for. Getting seen/heard/read in the right places can literally turn your business around. Question is, how do you make the most of this opportunity? Host Bart Jackson is an award-winning veteran interviewer for print, audio, and visual media. Through his decades as journalist and radio and TV host, he has selected and brought to best light thousands of individuals. He insists, “The ones who profit most from their media interview take an active stance.” Tune in and learn how to plan your message, personally connect with the interviewer, disseminate your program strategically afterward, and much more.
It’s not your fault. You don’t understand the systems as thoroughly as guest Tony DeMario and his Corporate Cost Solutions, Inc. When it comes Workers Compensation fees, Work Opportunity Tax Credits, waste management, utility bills and choices, even linen and uniform costs, Tony has burrowed into the nooks and crannies and emerges with immense cost savings for his clients. Host Bart Jackson invites Tony DeMario on to share some entertaining war stories and reveal some savings that you’ve probably never even considered. If you are a business owner you absolutely must tune in for your wallet’s sake. And if you work for a company, wouldn’t it be a great career boost if you could show the C-suiters some of these solid cost-saving solutions?
When it comes to selling, it’s not how hard you hustle, but how masterfully you create the point of sale. So says Brian Greenberg, serial entrepreneur whose enterprises have grossed over $100 million, and whose The Salesman who doesn’t Sell – A Marketing Guide to making Money While you Sleepis a must read. Host Bart Jackson invites Brian aboard to help you forge a business presence that will lure buyers to your shop/site/enterprise. Together, Bart and Brian discuss practical tactics for building a customer-centered, trustworthy reputation, making the most out of reviews, the art of the reciprocal client relationship, and more. Tune in and learn how to make that passive selling dream of less sweat and more profits a practical reality.
Recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers, Whitney Johnson shares the strategies you need for selecting, forging, and improving your business team. Author of Build an A Team, Whitney joins host Bart Jackson as they discuss how to motivate individuals up the learning curve, how to hone your own leadership skills, and how to set people on a path toward both high performance and personal fulfillment. Tune in for the fun as Bart challenges Whitney with a series of actual “tough-nut” situations and individuals; then listen & learn as Whitney employs her considerable managerial talents to provide solutions. You may want to take notes on this one.
So you have fought to the top of the top of the athletic heap – You’re a pro in the NFL, NBA, MBA or PGA. The only thing larger than your sports star salary is the number of sharks swimming around for a piece of it. So how does the professional athlete get the best coaching for the business side of their careers? They turn to The Corporate Huddle – an organization designed to connect the sports elite with equally elite C-suiters who help them work out a financial strategy. Host Bart Jackson brings into play guest Sharon Mahn, governing executive of The Corporate Huddle, who explains the unique challenges facing pro athletes, and some of the more fascinating solutions. How can an athlete employ his star power to launch a new business? How should she be budgeting her huge, but short-lived income? What choices should a youthful player be making to plan for his retirement in his late thirties? Tune in and discover which athletes are making the sharp plays in the business arena.
America’s sports stadiums stand as temples of community, of commerce, and as revealing mirrors that lays bare our cultural soul – warts and all. And no one knows these monumental enigma more intimately than author Rafi Kohan. After a yearlong exploratory pilgrimage to scores of stadiums, Rafi has penned the best-selling
Arena which tunnels deeply into the very guts of the structure and the peoples who make it work. Host Bart Jackson queries Rafi about the ticket scalpers, fanatical tailgaters, the allure of the stadium bathroom, the half-time stars, the moneymakers – even the folks who grow the fields of turf. Tune in and be fascinated, while you gain a new perspective on who we are and what we dream.
Want your firm to grow? Listen and learn from this tale of two women. Attorneys Rosanne DeTorres and Erin DeGeorge founded D and D Family Law in 2011 and made the conscious choice to grow it to the max. Think over their strategies, their use of data, the areas they pondered and improved – then apply it to your firm. Host Bart Jackson invites guest Rosanne DeTorres to share her story of how she expanded D and D family Law literally by the numbers. Her use of easily available statistics and studies, along with her intense scrutiny of the customer experience from the parking lot to the inner office sanctum offer an ideal model for your own company. Tune in and follow this tale of hard-wrought success.
What baggage are you carrying to work every day? Are you toting around a group of pre-set mindsets that are anchored to your coattails and preventing your meteoric rise? Host Bart Jackson takes a jovial look at some of those insidious attitudes that creep into our minds and munch away at our full potential. Are you afflicted with client contempt or competition envy? Wage slaves, corporate C-suiters, entrepreneurs, even board members get taken to task for those popular but devastating attitudes they carry daily into the work place. Tune in and learn all those defeating attitudes that others have – and maybe even one or two of your own that might be corrected.
Would you like to like to know what you’re getting when you buy a $50,000 Cartier watch or a $1500 Chopard clutch purse? Would you like to meet the gentleman who can legitimately put them in your hands for a third of that original price – and learn how he does it? Host Bart Jackson invites retailer extraordinaire Richard Birnbaum to unveil how his recently founded ShopWorn.com and is able to purchase new, never-sold, high-end watches, jewelry, and accessories and pass amazing discounts onto eager buyers. Tune in and learn how international retail market shifts offer opportunities for those sufficiently savvy to see the need and seize the day. What you’ll discover will inspire you.
What do you think? Should we just wait for the next Sandy-style super storm to smack us, then shell out another $72 billion in repairs – or should we adopt some preventative protection for our coastlines at about a fifth that cost? Crusading, former Massachusetts state Senator Bill Golden fervently opts for the latter, and with host Bart Jackson, he discusses his plan to erect proven Storm SurgeBarriers along our most vulnerable population centers. To practically engineer and fund raise this system, Bill has founded The National Institute for Coastal and Harbor Infrastructure. In addition, Bill is planning an amazing sailing venture to cruise the shores of North America to help raise awareness of the sea-level rise, climate change and storm threats. We need more leaders like this one. Tune in and learn how one hard-campaigning career pubic servant is forging solid solutions to a very real threat.
What about investments for You – the socially conscious investor who wants your money to bring both profit for you and benefit to the world at large? The United Nations has just launched its Sustainable Development Goals Fund comprised of companies that are aligned with the U.N’s 17 sustainable goals necessary for the survival of the planet and its peoples. Host Bart Jackson invites an explanation of this noble fund from its architect and manager, Alfred Berkeley. As former CEO of NASDAQ and World Economic Forum board member, Al Berkeley possesses both the expertise and solid ethics to make this fund a global force. Tune in and learn what firms are qualifying for the sustainability standards – why no American corporations can hurdle the bar – how you may invest – and best of all, how business is bettering our world.
Newsflash: women have curves. You may know that, but most clothes designers do not. Except, of course, Ms. Jennifer James, mompreneur and founder of Active Ego clothes, proffering plus-size ladies the active, leisure, and sports fan wear that’s as sensibly priced as it is tailored. Host Bart Jackson brings Jennifer on as guest to discuss the new trends and the clever strategies required to make it in the cut-throat competitive realm of fashion and clothing manufacture. Jennifer, through deft partnering, has rapidly spread her designs into outlets ranging from Neiman Marcus to big-box department stores, as well as online venues. Her most recent addition, Active Ego Sport, taps into the mysteriously explosive line of sports team togs. Tune in and discover what is catching women’s eyes as they shop for clothes – and what those choices reveal about our changing culture.
Are you getting the absolute ultimate out of your current job? Are you set to forge the next rung in your career? Or are you a jellyfish swept along with the tides of your company? Host Bart Jackson invites on board The Recruiter Guy, Bill Humbert, author of Employee 5.0 – Secrets of a Successful Job Search in the New World Order. Together Bart and Bill duel it out – each trying to outdo the other with the most valuable tools for landing you that new position and all the compensations you so richly deserve. Tune in and hear the mentoring contest – grab the best tools – and even cast your vote on whose advice is tops in your book.
“There’s too darn much to do. I’m not getting out from under. I could get it all done – but somehow the time is just slipping through my fingers and what have I accomplished?” Sound familiar? Host Bart Jackson shares some of the proven and most effective methods for tackling what you want to do. Starting from the inside out, Bart guides you to gaining some inner self-mastery right on towards more precise planning and carries the process swiftly out to the actions of your efficient fingertips. All topped off with a few ways to grab some satisfaction and celebration at day’s end. Tune in and take away a little self-management that will make the times of your life flow a little easier.
Who can clean up a church after the Twin Towers have crashed all around it? Who gives people back their homes when Hurricane Sandy smashes all they own? Who gets folks back to work after a 51st story fire in a skyscraper? The hero in each of these catastrophes is host Bart Jackson’s guest, Mr. Damon Gersh, CEO of Maxons Restorations, Inc. Recent recipient of The Art of the CEO’s Community Contributor Award, Maxon’s Restorations is in the business of giving people back their lives after disaster strikes. Gersh and his crew are the ones who wade in after fire, flood, and storm to save everything from priceless art to shattered walls. His business is dangerous, painstaking, highly technical, and, alas, never ending. Tune in and learn how the experts clean up after Nature doles out its worst.
Eighty-five percent of American women and more than half of U.S. gentlemen dab some on each day, making perfumes a $40+billion industry. Host Bart Jackson’s featured guest, fragrance master Sevi Adat guides you through the exotic process of how alluring scents are initially conjured, refined, and made attractive to a scent-sophisticated public. For more than 20 years around the globe Mr. Adat has designed everything from the subtly enhancing perfumes for Chanel to soothing scents for Glade Air Fresheners. He welds the wishes of retailers with the capabilities of chemists to meet customer desires. His is truly a nose of renown. Tune in and learn what you are really daubing behind your ears and why it works so enticingly.
Can you as entrepreneur defend your invention against mega-competitor encroachment? Can you accidentally infringe your own trademark? When you purchase a masterwork of art, what rights do you – and don’t you own? Host Bart Jackson brings on board intellectual property super attorney Randy Friedberg to make plain Gordian snarl of IP, copyrights, trademarks, and all those legalities in place protecting those precious expressions of your fertile mind. Randy, whose wise counsel and litigation abilities are highly prized by both music and book major publishers, brings to light those little known legal truths concerning ghostwriters, book authorship, neglected music royalties, and more. Tune in and learn just what money does – and does not buy.
When the big players: Amazon, Coca Cola, Facebook, Leggo, Ford Motors, face product trouble and they just cannot understand why – they call on Christian Madsbjerg. He and his company ReD Associates are totally transforming the old, flawed marketing models that are so popular and so inaccurate. Host Bart Jackson invites Madsbjerg on to discuss what’s wrong with the big-data and impersonal survey methods employed by most firms and why they simply do not reflect human reality. To find out how Leggo blocks can compete in the digital-screen-oriented age, and what Ford truck owners really want out of their vehicle, Madsbjerg insists that we need human contact, not algorithms. In his immensely well received books Sensemaking and Moment of Clarity he shows how business has been lured into false assumption by “weapons of math destruction” and how a more anthropological approach is need to get us back on track. Tune in and learn a more personal, effective, and profitable method for guiding your business decisions.
Yes, you are already a marvelous person. And with that wisdom you carry comes the knowledge that within your grasp is the power to make your self – your career – and your business even better. Thus, in the spirit of growth and carving out new opportunities, host Bart Jackson offers his 2018 New Years Resolutions list guaranteed to launch you into the coming year in a greater state of readiness. Tune in and take to heart some simple attitudes and disciplines that will bring you a lot more fun and make “Luck” find its way more frequently to your doorstep.
Now that businessman Phil Murphy is New Jersey’s Governor, will the Garden State be more business friendly? Will the business community get all its wishes legislatively granted? Host Bart Jackson invites Michele Siekerka, CEO/President of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association to discuss what it takes to build better business climate, and what we may expect from the shift from conservative to progressive leadership within the Garden State. New Jersey’s current political changeover, along with its two-decade scrabble for revenue, offers a living case study for all states in our current economy and leadership. Tune in and learn how to act and react to the changes coming your way.
Prepare to have your myth-understandings about the Federal Reserve busted. Now, at last, you are going to get the straight, unvarnished reality about who operates the Fed and why and how. Host Bart Jackson brings on Howard Howe, vice-president for international strategy for the Fed, to help you see how this massively powerful and necessary decentralized central bank fits into your life. Tune in and learn how the Fed can run the economy hot or cold; who makes these policies actually happen; how the labor and interest rates and the federal balance sheets can be manipulated in your favor. At last, listen and gain Fed comprehension.
There are two kinds of gold in business: actual revenue and management information that that leads to even greater revenue. A good accounting team can feed you both – if you employ them properly. But frankly, Scarlet, most executives don’t. Host Bart Jackson calls upon veteran CFO Eileen Xethalis to reveal just how business folks can take better advantage their financial handlers to get more solid reporting and more useable knowledge. Serving as CFO for dozens of major corporations, Eileen has recently launched The Nerdy Bookkeeper with the mission of providing mid-size firms the same enriched accounting prowess that is keeping the major players happily growing. Tune in and learn how clever money handlers can turn your complex managerial decisions into no-brainers.
Ever read a book that has changed your life, or helped make your days little happier and fulfilling? Wouldn’t you like to give a gift of that value to the ones you care about this holiday? Host Bart Jackson has compiled a list of the best books for working people this year. Some of these select volumes deliver more effective and profitable ways to lead others or yourself. Some guide you in gaining new perspectives and attitudes. And others will fly you toward greater insights, on the wings of laughter. Tune in and discover the informative reads that will take you and your friends where you want to go.
How do those top consultants rise to their rarefied pinnacles? How much expertise do you need to have people pay for your advice? Ever wonder what the right stuff is for consulting – and how you might get it? Host Bart Jackson invites one of managerial consulting’s most sought after luminaries Mr. Al Sagarese to share his personal story. Al’s four-decade career culminated in his founding and running the internationally noted Forrestal Consulting. Tune in and discover how one person’s wisdom can continually turn companies around and set them on the profitable path.
You have just crossed the threshold into a massive, impersonal organization. You’re given a number, ID tag, cubicle, and no introductions to anybody around you. This is the corporate ladder you have chosen to climb – you and a couple of thousand others. How do you brand yourself? Distinguish your achievements from all the others? Whom should you be courting for that all-important leg up? And most important, how do you keep your sanity and enthusiasm? Host Bart Jackson lays out an overall strategy, laced with a series of individual tactics to help you have fun, and wage your upwardly mobile campaign. Tune in and learn how to handle meetings, political battles, and corporate anonymity, along with how to make yourself invaluable & known.
What dangers lurk for man in the shadow of his robots and digital devices? What new intelligence is being programmed into those machines that are giving marching orders to our leaders, CEOs, and generals? Will we be prisoners to their data-driven decisions – are we already? Attorney, renaissance scientist, and human nature guru Lew Lederman – author of Watch Out – He Bites – Business Monsters to Avoid, joins host Bart Jackson as they venture down the paths of Homo sapiens’ own intelligent creations. Tune in and learn why society has relegated artificial intelligence left brain thinking and what exactly is that delicate relation between humans and their machines.
From what made Hugh Heffner’s and Bill Gates’ empires rise to what made Thomas Edison and two internet giants fall. Host Bart Jackson with the sagacious benefit of hindsight, takes a look at those single decisions that set enterprises teetering or towering. Taking you down the bumpy road of experience, Bart lays out the lessons to be learned from price of greed, lust for quick profit, fear of new innovations, and other deadly business sins. And along the way, you’ll discern the advantages of listening to clients, careful planning, and a little entrepreneurial daring in the face of a volcano. Tune in and learn from history what wise choices just might benefit you today.
How did NASDAQ soar from the new kid on the exchange floor to the premier giant that put stock trading a common occurrence in American homes? What new invention actually achieves the market’s holy grail of cyber security? Are the big players ruining the trading floor’s level playing field – does it matter? Host Bart Jackson talks with the one man who can authoritatively answer all these questions and many more, former NASDAQ CEO Al Berkeley.
Over the last four decades Berkeley has advised Presidents, changed fiscal reporting, and become a justifiably recognized sage in the investing community –as well as finding and finding the most profitable new enterprises. Tune in and learn what really is going on in the markets, and were you investments are headed, from the wise and dry-witted Al Berkeley.
One third of our meals are eaten in restaurants, making it an $800 billion industry nationwide; with one out of every 10 folks in America’s labor force contributing to your dining pleasure. Marilou Halverson trustee of the National Restaurant Association and President/CEO of the New Jersey Restaurant Association joins host Bart Jackson to reveal who is thriving and why. Bart and Marilou discuss which individual restaurants are gaining and which food chains are drawing back; Why common sense legislation for immigration, liquor licensing, and even marijuana use are vital to restaurants’ very survival; and why diners thrive more grandly in New Jersey than any other state. Tune in and discover the story behind what you are dining on so pleasurably.
From mergers to motion picture diva-producer quarrels, the Master Negotiator Greg Williams is the established expert in getting everyone at the table to walk away a winner – including You. Host Bart Jackson confronts Greg with some all-too-real negotiating challenges submitted by listeners from across the globe. How do the independent contractor negotiate the best possible pricing? The employee seize that deserved promotion? Gain favors, give favors, and still maintain business friendships? How do you read those subtle body-language hints? Listen to Greg & learn. Also, as a plus, Greg Williams, Regional Director of Leadership USA – NYC area gives you the best opportunity for unleashing the most out of your leadership team & going for the growth.
The Fashion Industry has exploded – and it’s including YOU. No longer do designers and retailers create and sell for only 20-year-old anorexia while the rest of us go grubby. Look at the ads & models: young boys, stylish octogenarians, pregnant celebrities holding well-clad babies. Noted fashion forecaster Emily Liu joins host Bart Jackson and explains how those cultural shifts in our society have transformed the very shirts on our backs. Those who create and sell clothes are scrambling to answer puzzling questions like What does gender mean in today’s world? How do you give athletic image for the active elderly, pride to the generously sized, and fun for the youngins of all shapes. Tune in and gaze into fashion – our culture’s bizarre mirror.
Joe Kaplan for 30 years has sold everything from breakfast cereal to exotic financial instruments with astounding success. What’s more, Joe knows why he’s a master salesperson and what profitable selling really demands. And now, so will you. Host Bart Jackson challenges Kaplan with a series of real sales situations for which Joe will provide practical solutions and wise counsel. Kaplan was the expert Nabisco turned to when they needed to display their new products onto competitive shelves; that Post Foods brought on to handle its merchandising and sales operations; and that Western Union hired to develop innovational promo programs. He has designed sales teams and designed strategies for countless firms. Every person of business must be able to sell. Tune in and better your own skills with aid from the master.
Who really gets rich from pirates’ loot? Come aboard and trace the revenue stream originally and ill-gottenly gained by pirate Captain Sam Bellamy who profitably plundered scores of ships throughout the Caribbean at the dawn of the 18th Century. Host Bart Jackson brings on underwater field archeologist Christopher Macort who leads an ongoing expedition sifting the sunken remains of Bellamy’s ship, The Whydah, which sank in a storm right off Cape Cod (the home of his lady love) in 1717. Bellamy, the Bill Gates of pirates, had parceled out 50-pound gold and silver sacks as shares for each of his 145-man crew. Macort tells how the pirates fared, how the ensuing treasure hunters made out, and what he and expedition founder Barry Clifford are bringing up from the depths. Want to know how pirates lived & died, how archeologists actually unearth these riches, and where you may now view some of this astounding wealth? Tune in and have your fantasies satiated with an even more amazing reality.
Anne-Marie Faiola can tell you how to make soap. In fact, she explains it so well that her books and SoapQueen TV show are startling hits. And if you listen to her talk with host Bart Jackson, you can also hear Anne-Marie detail how this skill, when blended with a lifelong-cultivated entrepreneurial ability can blossom forth into the multi-million-dollar Bramble Berry Handcraft Provisions firm with over 2,500 high sellers in its product line. For most of us, the fulfilled life and business remains a blend of fate and mystery. In her latest book, “Live Your Best Day Ever – 35 Strategies for Daily Success,” Anne-Marie demystifies the story of her own success, and most importantly, breaks it down into several bite-size habits that you may adopt to your best advantage. Tune in and learn how to make the most of what already lies within you.
Join host Bart Jackson as he jovially debunks today’s business sound bites that everyone seems to be accepting. You hear them everywhere – those supposedly wise bits of industry lore that all the books, magazines and pundits are spouting constantly. Trouble is, these ruinous maxims don’t get any better with retelling, and being currently popular doesn’t make them workable for you. Tune in and hop on the laugh track and take a ride toward uncommon sense.
Is your business – your whole business – armed and in state of readiness to seize all new opportunities? Host Bart Jackson invites international corporate counselor Joe Paris to lay out a course that sets your company on a path toward bristling preparedness, and your managers in a mindset for incisive decision making. The old, plodding method of setting in place and sharpening one process at a time simply will not create a unified geared-up entity. Paris calls for a strategy of continual self-assessment and integral harmony – getting all the piano in tune with its parts to undertake a massive symphony. Tune in and learn how to make your enterprise sweet and profitable.
In an industry where $10 Billion giants rule the shelves, how does a smaller “David”, Like Tucker Toys company competitively bring down these Goliaths? Host Bart Jackson invites Tucker’s CEO/President Mark Nathan to unfold this tale of inventive triumph. Dedicated to keeping kids active, Tuckers’ innovative team generates a constant stream of new games and sports equipment that transforms play and brings home revenue. Tune in and see how far a business can go when it’s devoted to a positive mission.
What’s does a zoo, Brooks Brothers fine menswear, a museum, and the DAK Group investment bank all have in common? Award winning marketer Ms. Joan McGeough has deftly market them all to exponential growth. Host Bart Jackson invites Joan to reveal the underlying market principles as well as the special, trade-specific techniques that she employs as Vice-president in charge of marketing for the DAK Group. Tune in and learn how a good marketer can enhance the entire experience of selling one’s business, and bring not just awareness, but success to the firm’s clients.
How do top players merge strong, equal firms merge seamlessly into growth? How can you position yourself to take advantage when your firm is considering a merger? Host Bart Jackson invites Howard Cohen, former Chair of EisnerAmper accounting firm to share his tales of how he engineered the merger that created this financial powerhouse. ‘Tis a fascinating, detail-rich story of how experts handle inorganic growth so that all stakeholders win, and the new company bites off a larger chunk of marketshare. Tune in and learn the intricacies of how deals may be wisely made.
Forget the rules you’ve been taught. Forget the quantitative approach of filling cyberspace with rubber-stamp resumes. Host Bart Jackson and Regional Personnel Services founder Dr. Jim Lynch set out a career-builder’s bible that is satisfyingly more personal and way more effective. Want to make the quantum leap from job to a fulfilling career? Wouldn’t you like to learn how to personally connect the individual employers and mentors who could bring you the greatest benefit? And wouldn’t it be nice to finally have some solid direction for achieving your career goals? Tune in and take hold of the career tools you require.
You know who they are: that bullying boss – the obsessive critic – the over-promiser – the head-in-the-clouds CEO – the over-communicator – the credit stealer…all individuals our listeners have listed as prime problems. Host Bart Jackson thinks it’s a bout bloody time we put these pests in their proper place and out of your life for good. Don’t cringe and pusillanimously foot. Here are some solid, sure-fire, workable ways to fend off the annoyances who are a thorn in your neck. Tune in and laughingly learn how sweep away the stumbling blocks with some gentle, sweet revenge. Oh, yes, this is a fun one.
Be it a large professional organization or more intimate peer group, enticing new members is tougher than winning Buddhist converts in Vatican City. And sustaining interest is harder than selling salary cuts to Congress. Few leaders build and maintain organizations nearly so capably as Host Bart Jackson’s featured guest, attorney Mark Kuehn. Founder of the New Jersey Chapter of The Association for Corporate Growth as well as creator of several C-suite peer groups, Mark holds that special instinct for providing an organizational bond. How do you structure and increase membership? What are the ideal strategies for engaging top speakers, sponsors, and members? Tune in and learn how to make your group relevant, enriching, and growing.
What does it take to direct a major, multi-national corporation?
Board Directors are challenged with bringing sanity and profit to their company. They guide the founding CEO, prove compliance to government agents, plus discover and drive mergers that bring smiles to shareholders and clients alike. Host Bart Jackson invites veteran Director Mike Mardy who has governed wildly successful Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Nabisco Foods, Tumi luggage company, MacDonald’s major meat supplier and others through major growth movements acquisitions and mergers. Tune in and learn the fascinating and very human workings of corporate leadership.
Can you believe political and opinion polls? Just how accurate are they? How do pollsters conduct their surveys? Most important: How much do polls actually affect the outcome of an election or market? Host Bart Jackson challenges noted pollster Krista Jenkins, Director of Public Minds polling service, to defend the objectivity of polls and reveal this complex and evolving process. Join us for a lively debate as polling is laid bare. Guaranteed, you will learn what drives our public’s mind. You’ll learn how everyone got Trump’s candidacy so wrong, and you’ll come to appreciate pollsters a whole lot more.
If the signs on the doors say Wealth Manager, Financial Planner Asset Manager, Investment Broker, Financial Advisor, do you know which door to select? Do you know how these counselors make their money – and more importantly, what they do with yours? Host Bart Jackson brings on veteran fiscal wizard Jaime Raskulinecz, CEO of Next Generation Trust Services, to demystify and make sense of all this financial advisory. Jaime and Bart will discuss the ranges of client involvement and investment types, and help you determine to whom you should be turning for advice and administration. Tune in and discover a more knowledgeable way to get the best from your money.
All jobs are temporary. The average working American will hold his current job for 3.4 to four years. Today’s careers are being made by caroming your way to the top, rather than grinding slowly up one corporation’s ladder. Host Bart Jackson invites on board Adam Lifson, business development manager for the professional temporary positions placement firm Accounting Principals. Together they will shatter the myth of temporary jobs as acts of fiscal desperation, and show the many advantages of getting your foot in the door of some very lucrative business chambers. Want to learn the strategy for turning a temp job into a permanent position? Discover what advantages the temp executive has over the fixed-position employee? Tune in and find a new avenue for your career.
It’s a $1.5 trillion industry. It has sped up the business process as greatly as the computer. And yet shipping remains a mystery to most who employ it. Host Bart Jackson invites veteran shipping logistics expert and President of Somerset Marine, Abed Medawar to explain the recent huge leaps made in moving goods from point A to point B. What advancements allow Alaskan-caught fish to be filleted in China and sold fresh in Scotland? What options allow your entrepreneurial firm to make and sell worldwide? What are those really clever pricing tricks? Tune in and learn how to span the globe.
The island state of Tasmania hangs like a jewel just off the southern tip of Australia. Slightly smaller than England with a mere 500,000 souls this isolated land holds its own methods of business – so much of which is very personal, admirable, and very profitable. Host Bart Jackson has just returned from a month touring Australia’s most southern state, and he reports to you all the Tasmanian business deviltries by profiling a series of the most fascinating ventures and individual venturers. How do you sustainably harvest the most useful and valued timber on the planet that grows only on your island? How is one small village transforming itself into the bicycle capital for the world’s elite cyclists? And by what amazing process have these heirs of convict laborers and wild speculating prospectors turned their land into one of the most cleverly marketed tourist attractions on the planet? Tune in and get inspired.
The most valuable property in any company churns ceaselessly in the intellects of its people. But who owns it and how can a company best hang on to it? Host Bart Jackson brings on renowned corporate attorney Phil Crowley to explain the vital safeguards for all business owners and inventive individuals. Do you know what elements will make non-compete, confidentiality, works-for-hire, and other agreements legally effective? How to protect your sales lists and other non-patentable parts of your business? And have you figured the balance between keeping ownership of IP and still fostering the spirit of innovation. Tune in and learn the legal instruments plus the managerial subtleties that will keep your most profitable asset protected.
There is no wiser investment of your precious time and talent than in the community where you live. There is no more sure-fire way to enrich your life than by enriching the plot of earth in which you dwell. As living proof of this, Host Bart Jackson brings on the city of Trenton’s most active champion, Jacque Howard to lay out the best strategies for civic engagement. Can you transform blocks of individual apartments and houses into a neighborhood where neighbors know each other, offer support, and share their many & off-the-wall talents with each other? The tireless Mr. Howard boldly insists “Yes!” – and tells what he’s done – what you can do – and whom you may enlist to get the juggernaut rolling. Tune in and find the hidden army that lives right around you.
How does one be a successful sculptor in this cash-only-concerned world? Host Bart Jackson invites on globally famed sculptor Gyuri Hollosy to explain the commercial side of being an artistic creator in today’s economy. And, as author of the markedly insightful Voices in an Artists Head, Gyrui delves deeply into that artistic mindset that we all possess, but fail to employ to its best advantage. Are you using your emotions in a way that brings joy and sparks creativity? Are you bringing a spiritual assessment into you business and into your staff to determine the fullest value? Tune in and learn how much of the penetrating artistic perspective we all possess within us – and how much we need to cultivate and set it to work for our own benefit.
You have launched your business, mortgaged your home, and put your dreams out there to see – and Boom! It fails. Host Bart Jackson takes you through the emotional and financial healing process. No cheerleading – no Pollyanna “Make Lemonade,” and other smiley-faced advice. You’ve just experienced a crushing blow with a lot of troubles ahead. Bart faces the horror failure with honesty. He gives examples of how others have winched themselves out of similar tarpits. Tune in for some solid counsel on restoring credit, retaining assets, assessing the damage, and most of all, sensible ways to rebuild your mind and attitude.
Over 250 million roses will be bought and given to beloveds this Valentines Day, but if you really want to impress her, my son, it had better be an orchid. Host Bart Jackson invites Susan Gange, owner & founder of Stony Brook Orchids to explain just how dirty you have to get to bring beauty into the world. Every wonder why the orchid has become the globe’s premier flower? What it takes to raise, market, and cultivate a prosperous business from these exotic beauties? How do sellers deal with the boom-and-bust sales season? Tune in and delve deep down the allure and labors of the fascinating orchid trade.
Life demands more than a recipe. Those who accomplish great goals not only have planned out flexible strategies – they have examined exactly why they work and why they are following them. Host Bart Jackson brings on board professional sports psychologist and leadership consultant Dr. Stan Beecham to detail the thought processes at work for winning Olympians and business masters. Author of the highly acclaimed Elite Minds – How Winners Think Differently, Stan encourages us to squelch our insatiable obsessions with doing better – ever wanting more; to beware of culturally implanted limitations; to carefully scrutinize the pop several-step-success formulae; and get down to the business of doing our very best this very day. Tune in and get some solid advice for accomplishing your goals, and learn how it has worked for the best in their business.
Cognitive Neuroscientist Dr. Carmen Simon designs the pitches and messages that your brain remembers and wants to act on. Like to know how and why? Host Bart Jackson invites Carmen, author of best-selling Impossible to Ignore, to talk through the motives behind the messages she has developed for major name computer firms, food chains, tech firms, and others. Bart will present challenge situations from select businesses and allow Carmen detail what pitches that firm needs to present – why it centers itself in the gray matter of the audience - and in how it will direct an action response. Tune in – it’s enlightening, a bit scary, and it’s a tool you yourself should be employing.
So how would You handle it if your kitchen-table startup made its first thousand sales in 24 hours and sold another one-third million units within the next half year? Host Bart Jackson invites Joe Caiola, founder of Watch Yo Mouth game & corporation to tell the tale of his overnight success, and how he is handling his volcanic explosion into the giddy task of becoming a CEO. Staffing, warehousing, capitalizing, law suits, compliance, customer relations, and cracking the whip on production have all heaped upon the broad shoulders of this amazingly clever entrepreneur. Tune in and learn how this ultimate Horatio Alger living legend is riding the whirlwind he created.
Wake up and smell the facts: 2017 is the year perched and primed to be your best year ever. Host Bart Jackson spells out solid, factual reasons as to exactly how this new year holds out the best hope for your personal life, your career and the many ventures into which you may plunge. Better business support systems – expanded markets – more and more eager investors – the craving for fine talent (like you) – greater entrepreneurial advantages and funding – galvanizing of ethical and environmental forces…Oh, he can go on forever. Forget all the media moanings and the political chess-boarding. This is your year, my friend. Tune in and let Bart spell out why and where your opportunities lie. Come get ‘em, Tiger.
Can one man start a peace revolution? Can several unarmed individuals square off against companies of armed soldiers and halt the rape, pillage, and massacre that inevitably partners with war? It might seem ludicrous to think it possible – until you have met Mr. Mel Duncan, founder of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. Host Bart Jackson invites Mel to explain exactly how he has forged teams of international, unarmed peacekeepers who protect civilians in war-torn countries. Tune in and take home a little hope this Christmas season, from the courageous gentlemen and ladies who are stopping the horrors war one battlefield at a time. Yes, Peace is triumphing.
Gone are the days when businesspeople frantically hop to simply because the boss says so. As business evolves so must leaders. Host Bart Jackson talks with Dr. Danielle Harlan, author of The New Alpha, about the far more effective trend of changemakers and influencers who are learning to lead themselves first and radiate that competence out among their team. And the very good news? The New Alpha strategy may be easily adapted because it stands grounded in your own unique strengths. Tune in and learn how to make yourself more powerful, gain a stronger influence with coworkers. Isn’t it about time people began listening and reacting to your words?
How does Santa run the world’s largest joy and toy factory in the frigid Northern Pole and still keep all his elves motivated? Host Bart Jackson, sparing no expense whatsoever, has flown in Santa’s COO elf, Jeanne Murphy, to show Santa’s methods for keeping the elf crew happy and the reindeer ever galloping forward. (Is Rudolph more motivated than Prancer?) Additionally, Ms. Jeanne Murphy, founder of the Santa Choice Awards will show the very best toys this holiday, and discuss what children truly want, as opposed to what they are told they want. Tune in and catch the real spirit of the holidays. Ho Ho Ho.
What does your heart desire to find under the Christmas tree this year? With substantial advising from his wife and his female COO, host Bart Jackson offers the perfect package of gifts for the lady rich in life and hope, who seeks a little more fun and fulfillment in her career. And, in fact, they are gifts which most gentlemen of business would like to add to their arsenals. So tune in and listen as we draw out of the Holiday bag everything you have been needing and dreaming of. Oh, by the way, with each of these gifts – some assembly is required.
Bigness does not win in business – Brains do. In celebration of Small Business Saturday, (Nov 26), Host Bart Jackson gathers and reveals the clever tactics employed by thriving small companies that are carving off hefty slices of profit from their big box or giant corporate competitors. Want to know how to make the most from of your niche advantage? How to destroy the bigger-is-cheaper pricing myth? How to build a loyal customer base? Tune in and learn how your artillery advantage can send the neighboring Goliath crashing to earth.
In the latest Presidential election, we have witnessed two opposite ends of leadership styles. Host Bart Jackson invites Leadership guru and noted author Rebecca Shambaugh to dissect the benefits of each – and most importantly find out what elements may best suit your personal style. Rebecca has challenged corporate leaders worldwide to move into a more inclusive, more integrated leadership method that allows for Your persona, and builds profits. Tune in and learn the skills that will galvanize the folks behind your vision.
Their lips were moving and the language might have sounded uncertain. But body language is a no spin zone where truth gets revealed. Host Bart Jackson invites body language and negotiating Master Greg Williams to analyze the real messages behind the verbiage of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. When were the two Presidential candidates feeling uncertain or strongly self assured?When were they being cagey? Did they display trustworthiness, sincere concern, fear? Tune in and learn what lay behind the battle of words and what we may expect from our new President.
Nobody does it Like Sharon Mahn. When the Fortune 500 seeks new leaders, they enlist Sharon Mahn. All the top executive and legal talent strive to be on her call list. Meanwhile, she hits all the most exciting high life in the globe’s most vibrant city (Manhattan, of course) and draws all the most sought-after business luminaries into the fun. Host Bart Jackson invites Sharon on to reveal how she distinguishes herself and remains at the pinnacle of the talent recruitment heap. Want to make yourself known as the go-to person in your field? Want to have your reputation make that long-deserved, meteoric rise – all the while having more excitement and fun the way Sharon Mahn does? Tune in and give your career a boost.
What will you be wearing next year? Would you like to know who determines that and why and how? Host Bart Jackson invites noted fashion forecaster Ms. Emily Liu to give you a peep into the fascinating, absolutely vital, statistically laden, and oh-so-marvelous realm of fashion trend prognistication. Tune in and learn what styles designers determine to place on the runway and how the giant retailers go about deciding what it is you really want to toss on in the morning. With billions at stake, you may be surprised to learn just how much control you have.
Will your salaried workers be claiming overtime before the first snowfall? Will you, Mr./Ms. Employee be counting your hours and demanding increased wages? As dramatic a change as the upcoming election, the new FLSA’s Final Rule could, in a December twinkle, bring that about. Host Bart Jackson invites noted employment law expert, attorney Amy Vazquez to explain how the Act’s new doubling of salary thresholds raises the exemptions bar for executives, administrators, and professionals may force them into new (and costly) wage categories. President Obama and the DOL are calling this the salvation of the middle class – and opponents are calling it the slow strangulation of small business. Before deciding who is right, tune in and get the actual numbers and facts on this far-reaching modernization of labor laws. Yes, short term or long it effects you.
This episode is YOUR opportunity to let your managerial expertise win you some straight Cash from The Art of the CEO. When you lead/manage a team or a company, every day presents a problem that is out of the norm. Host Bart Jackson has invited corporate leaders to present some of their more offbeat challenges – some of their real stumpers. Bart will present the challenge – invite your response – and then reveal the solution the company leader actually provided. It’s your chance to learn how the best face the worst. And if our judges think the solution you write in to info@BartsBooks.com is superior, you’ll receive a check and adulation on our next show.
Once you have brought that new top talent on board – how do you pamper him/her into optimum productivity? In this second of a two-part series about entrepreneurial hiring, Host Bart Jackson discusses those best and proven methods for encouraging and planting those seeds of energized dedication.
How do you physically set the workplace stage? What atmosphere needs be conveyed? What emotional and verbal adjustments do you, Mr. Employer, need to make? How do you nurture, credit, reprimand, and turn talent into teammate. Whether your are completely new to hiring or an experienced veteran with a loyal staff, tune in and learn how to unleash the top talents within each member of your company.
People are your business’ greatest growth engines. For entrepreneurs who are new to the talent hiring process and for those veterans who would like to improve their vital hiring skills, Host Bart Jackson has gathered an audio hiring manual. Employing the practices of leaders who have successfully garnered top achievers and contributors, Bart gives you tactics on where to search, how to present your offer attractively, how to interview, and what winning attitude adjustments you need to make. This is Part 1 of a two part series, on initial hiring, with Part 2 discussing the care and grooming of top talent once they come on board your company.
It just takes one person to launch a revolution and/or a business. Why not You? Host Bart Jackson invites Jacque Howard, founder of Trenton 365, to tell the tales of how many entrepreneurs are launching single-person businesses that are thriving, and contributing to the owner’s income and to the community. Whether you have the art of singing, programming computers, painting, or deftly handling tax forms, you will want to gather the tools for a successfully starting up your firm, from those who’ve achieved it. And even if you have no Horatio Alger plans yourself, you will be fascinated by Jacque Howard’s stories about individual solopreneurs who have risen from worrying about rent money to surplus revenue investment.
You love it, but apparently no one else does. ‘Tis one of the oldest disasters in business. You’ve poured your sweat, dreams, and all your cash into creating the perfect service or product that customers just won’t touch. Host Bart Jackson rolls out fascinating proven damage repair strategies that prevent one product failure from sinking the entire ship of your enterprise. Can the product be tweaked and sales salvaged? Or if it must be scrapped, how can you save your reputation and get your finances into secure lifeboats? Whether you are solopreneur or corporate head, tune in and learn how you and other clever leaders can keep non-sellers from becoming true business disasters.
It’s not how much money you have, it how competently you manage it. As organizations so passionately focus on their missions, too many charities and foundations are letting their fiscal sides slide – to the detriment of programs and donor base. Host Bart Jackson invites Eileen Xethalis, director of CFO Consulting partners to lay out strategies for nonprofits that will make them more effectively manage revenues. A respected veteran CFO of many non-profits, Ms. Xethalis reveals how charitable organizations may make themselves more attractive to donors, survive audits, and get well managed bucks to give their mission and programs more bang. Tune in and learn how both non and for profits may better manipulate their revenue with greater responsibility and efficacy.
What attitudes are holding you back and which ones you need to foster? What feelings seethe through your heart as you roll up your selves and get down to work? Attitudes serve as the vital foundation for business success and satisfaction. And No – you cannot fake an attitude. But you can cultivate those attitudes that literally will inspire you onto achievement. Host Bart Jackson, CEO of Prometheus Publishing in a series of fascinating tales lays out how you may develop those attitudes that will transform your work into an enjoyable career and fill your workday with more achievement.
Yes Mr/Ms Entrepreneur you need an attorney from the outset to cultivate profits. Host Bart Jackson brings on renowned corporate attorney Phil Crowley to explain to entrepreneus exactly why they require legal counsel and how to best employ your attorney profitably.
Forget your grandfather’s boardroom with a posse of aging duffers deciding corporate fate in wise and masterful inactivity. Board members have gone shirtsleeves - governance has morphed to an intensely more involved process. Gender quotas, mandated Qualified Financial Advisors, specialized authority members, and scores of others pressures are rampaging across the directorial horizon and leaping through a very pierced corporate veil into boardrooms both domestic and global. To sort through these upheavals, major boards are calling upon host Bart Jackson’s guest, sought-after consultant Thomas Bakewell. Author if the definitive “Claiming your Place at the Boardroom Table” and veteran member of the leadership board and faculty for the National Institute of Corporate Directors, Thomas Bakewell knows firsthand how boardroom traditions are blending with today’s changing roles. Tune in and learn how major companies are evolving and how they truly run.
What do you do if you’re in real estate and Hurricane Sandy suddenly blows into your state and devastates 350,000 of the homes and businesses in your area? Well, if you are Hollston Realty Group principal Don Slaght you see the need and seize the opportunity to literally get those buildings (and your community) back on their feet. Host Bart Jackson invites Don on to tell how he swiftly expanded his firm into Northeast Home Elevation to salvage and restore, raise on stilts or move to higher ground homes and commercial structures damaged by Sandy. Tune in and learn this admirable tale of business adaptation and community service, along with some fascinating feats of creative engineering. (How does one lift up a home from flooded shore and heft it to a high hill?)
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How well is your career serving you? Ever wonder what tools the top business leaders employ to forge their own fulfilling careers? Host Bart Jackson has interviewed in depth scores of Chief Executive Officers, their mentors, and their C-suite executives. In this show he distills down the top ten most effective and applicable actions you can take to bring not just achievement, but satisfaction to your working life. If you are one of the energized elite – one of those individuals who is willing to invest the effort and adopt the advice of the masters, you need this show. Tune in and learn the proven methods to guide your career onto the path you want.
What does it take to bring luscious oysters up from the seabed and onto the platter placed appetizingly on the half shell before you? Host Bart Jackson and The Art of the CEO radio crew make pilgrimage to Maxwell Shellfish to discover how it’s done. John Maxwell, his wife Kim and their daughter Bridgitte tell how their family has been bringing oysters, clams, crabs, and all the seas bounty for over 170 years. These are fisher folks who literally sleep in rhythm with the tide, and began their trade as toddlers tied to the mast. Tune in and learn how to handle a dredge, make a profit, and how the fishers like John Maxwell create a sustainable shellfish crop along New Jersey’s southern shores that will last into future generations.
What does it take to make your words stick fast in people’s minds? How can you inspire action and influence others’ decisions? To answer these vital questions, Host Bart Jackson invites cognitive scientist Carmen Simon to push aside all trite maxims and delve deep into the human brain’s inner workings and pathways. Author of “Impossible to Ignore” and cofounder of Rexi Media, Dr. Simon outlines scientifically tested methods for making other folks’ grey matter sit up and take notice. Tune in and learn how to make your words count among people who count.
Crowdfunding is no longer an edventurous backing of the bizarre project. Various venues now accomodate venture capitalists, angel investors, equity investors, as well as the entire gamut of entrepreneurial enterprises. Noted Financial Mentor Jaime Raskulinecz joins host Bart Jackson gives the real low down on the ever-expanding arena of Crowdfunding. Tune in and discover the potential thrill and profit of this alternative funding source.
You grab it off the supermarket shelf and take it to your table with very little idea of what it takes to get it there. Who are the commercial and manufacturing links in this $1.6 trillion food chain? How do they bring food to an entire nation? What problems do they face? What are the new FDA food labeling laws going to mean to them – and you? Brian Todd President of The Food Institute joins host Bart Jackson to reveal the unknown machinery behind our food industry. Tune in and gain a fuller appreciation of all the folks and efforts that give you that next delicious bite.
Do you know the exact right words to move, cajole, traduce, and seduce people to the action you desire of them? Most folks scribble and key-tap scores of messages every day that don’t move readers to anything except tears. Host Bart Jackson, a 30-year journalist, author, and CEO of Prometheus Publishing reveals how to make your coworkers read what you write – feel inspired to act – and even look forward to the next missive from you. Forget all the protocols and style traditions. There’s no sacred rules here. Tune in and let’s get some energy and understanding flowing from your pen into your readers’ minds.
Beware: you are entering Terra Incognita. Whether fresh out of school or returning after a long hiatus, crossing the workplace threshold brings you into a dark pool of strange people, new rules, new demands and unspoken codes of conduct. As a life raft for these first days of your career, Host Bart Jackson passes on a gentle, friendly guide of attitudes and practices to adopt. He also shares some blunders to avoid and the humorous regrets from many workplace veterans. Tune in and gain some wise and proper footing for your career launch.
How do you entice the community’s enthusiasm to juggernaut your idea into a popular event? Host Bart Jackson brings on the master of community involvement, Jacque Howard, who has founded and transformed Trenton365 from a radio show to a major non-profit organization, to a powerful progressive force in New Jersey’s capitol city. Using Trenton 365’s latest citywide Library Box Project, Bart and Jacque discuss how to rally those hidden-but-willing resources. Tune in an learn how to roll out the subtle details and promotion strategies that smoothly move an idea into an event, ever fanning the flames of public interest.
Entrepreneurs see life through a unique lens. When devoted mom Nadine Savino was faced with a poorly designed drink bottle for her toddler, she saw a basic need – and a solution. This inventive mother went out and designed a spill-proof, stretchable bottle cap that allows bottles to tip over without the milk or drink spilling or pouring through a straw. Thus the “GCap” was born and the welcoming response has been staggering.
Host Bart Jackson converses with GCap inventor, Nadine, and her impressively creative PR/marketer, Jeanne Murphy who prove that entrepreneurial success is no accident. Together Mses Murphy and Savino reveal the careful, wise steps in promotion, manufacturing, and marketing that has set major media panting to have GCap’s inventor on their shows and big box stores seeking the product for their shelves. Tune in and discover how to best engineer your product idea into a thriving business.
The magic that makes and breaks fortunes bubbles madly on the cauldron of the stock exchange trading floor. Host Bart Jackson invites veteran direct access trader Kevin Menture to lay bare the mystique and describe how the traders come out fighting after the opening bell. Kevin details this exceptionally high-skill and ultra-high-pressure profession – what it takes to enter this elite crew – and the camaraderie that bonds them together. Ever wonder what really unfolds when you place a trade order with your broker? How digitalization of trades is giving not only speed but an advantage to certain folks? Tune in and learn what’s the deal behind the deals.
Joseph Petrovics has created the 9/11 World Trade Center firefighters’ memorial, monumental pieces for St. John the Divine cathedral, well known governmental commissions, as well as highly popular abstract pieces in wood, bronze, and stone. When not instructing Americas young, up-and-coming elite, he labors in his studio, transforming his dreams and visions into the tangible. All the while, Joseph is an independent businessman. His art must not only meet his own idealized standards – it must be salable.
How does a sculptor, even a top sculptor, make his work known and purchased? How does one transform a 20-inch model of clay into a 16-foot bronze monument? Now, Joseph has brought to life a new life-size model of a very unusual, emotionally-gripping horse. Tune in and learn what tools and energy brought it from his mind to his studio, and what steps it must take to move from studio into the pubic view?
Wine is a tough business. Host Bart Jackson takes you on a remote broadcast to Pennington, N.J.’s Hopewell Valley Vineyards where owners Sergio and Violetta Neri lovingly grow a wide range of fine varietals and magically transform their juice into true Dionysian nectar. In addition to creating a tasteful offering of award-winning wines, Sergio and Violetta have developed their winery into a tourist destination, which has become the hub for local jazz top talents, all enjoyed with full-bodied vintages and brick oven pizza served in Hopewell Valley’s elegant halls. Tune in and learn the continual cycle of labors demanded in the vineyard, and take note of a creative business model by which a farm has become a state-wide entertainment draw.
Can you imagine the tragic waste of slaughtering an entire beautiful shark to use only the tip of its fin in a soup? A waste equal and analogous occurs every day in businesses worldwide where beautiful human beings are employed only for one little fragmentary skill and the remainder of that human potential is tossed aside as leftovers. Host Bart Jackson discusses how increasingly, good managers are taking a new look at their most important asset – their people. Instead of filling slots and hiring for single tasks, managers and human resource experts are scrutinizing the entire human package and employing it to everyone’s best and most profitable advantage. Human leftovers are a process of the past we can no longer afford. Tune in and find how top leaders are bringing out the top and fullest talents in all their team members.
Isn’t it about time that you stopped letting your investment decisions be guided by automatic texts alerts and frenzied financial newscasters with 24/7 panic attacks? Host Bart Jackson brings on financial sage Dan Goldman, Managing Director of Princeton Global Asset Management, whose forty-year perspective will help make you a wiser investor. Dan and Bart scrutinize the traditional markets, give the benefits and caveats of crowdfunding and other social investment avenues, and help you customize a personal investment strategy for your needs and assets. Tune in and find a better, more common sense way to get your money working harder for you.
How do you size up a person in a fingersnap? What is her body language telling you? What should you have studied before the negotiation? What’s your optimum attitude adjustment? Host Bart Jackson brings on The Master Negotiator Greg Williams to Help you get more out your formal and informal negotiations with others. Internationally renowned speaker, mentor to Fortune 500 C-suites, and author of 19 books on negotiation, Greg distills the art of negotiating into a set of useable strategies that arm you with both confidence and competence. Never be tongue-tied again. Tune in and seize your advantage. Learn how to bargain for and gain what you deserve.
You heard about the attorney with no sense of humor didn’t you? He lost his appeal. Host Bart Jackson (master of Business Quips) joins forces with guest Sherri Waryasz, the Queen of Laughter for a rollicking, riotous feast. Isn’t it time you learned to laugh at the world of business? Ever since ole Aristophanes cracked up ancient Athens audiences with “Oh Democracy, whither art thou leading us?” folks have known that the greatest wisdom flies most agreeably on the wings of laughter. Wouldn’t it be beneficial if you could forge a human connection with your fellows, gain a deeper and more joyous perspective, and just plain have more smiles in your day? Tune in and learn how to swap seriousness for the far more effective tools of humor and laughter. Also, seize a whole batch of new business quips to share.
Hear the one about the guy who left his business to his brother-in-law’s niece, without knowing it? The difference between the overwhelming complexities of estate law and astrophysics is that you truly do hold the opportunity to take control of your estate. Host Bart Jackson invites Martin Shenkman, one of the nation’s foremost estate planning authors and practitioners to share some of his most bizarre and most poignant stories. Can you really reach out from the grave and save your business from being strangled? Tune in and find out. And while you’re listening, pick up a hefty dose of cutting-edge guidance on the planning you need to get started on Now.
U.S. military veterans form the most able, exceptionally trained, and tragically neglected talent pool in America. In a nation of 4.9% unemployment, nearly one in five Afghanistan vets are going jobless while companies desperately struggle to find dependable, innovatively-trained talent. Host Bart Jackson brings on two matchmakers: Founder Jack Fanous and marketer Carol Gabel of the G.I. Go Fund and YourJobPath.com. Together they discuss compliance, tax credit cash, improved work forces, and the very real examples of vets rebuilding this nation’s business one career at a time. Tune and learn how your company can gain a little more muscle and leadership.
Since Man and Woman first set up shelter in a cave, they have been force-fit into separate working roles. Today, carrying millennia of baggage and marvelously distinct abilities, ladies and gentlemen blend their energies into the realm of business. Host Bart Jackson, author of Behind Every Successful Woman Is Herself, and guest Gary Douglas, noted speaker and author of Salon Des Femmes & The Gentlemen’s Club, insight and joviality tackle the quest of how men and women may play together a little better in the business sandbox. Tune in for some fun myth busting, and to gain a greater appreciation of what that glorious other gender brings to your place of business.
Telling the boss she’s incorrect – Selling the skeptical client – Presenting that all-important project to the board of directors. Whether formal or “casual,” business is richly laden with difficult and tricky conversations. Host Bart Jackson joins with guest Matt Abrahams, author of best-selling How to Speak Up Without Freaking Out, to help you stand up, undertake, and breezily overcome these gnarly presentations. From physical posture, to precise words, to mindset, getting the details right leads to stressless victory. Tune in and learn how to say the toughest things in a way that leaves a smile on everyone’s face.
Get ready for fun. Business folks from all over challenge Host Bart Jackson with some of business’ stickiest situations and frustrating inter-personal dilemmas. Tackling them head on with his witty wordsmithery, Bart will craft the response that is most likely to ease the tension or extract the speaker from a potential fist fight. The world belongs to the talkers – those people whose words convince others that they are trustworthy, their products beneficial, and their ideas wise. So tune in and learn a little chat savvy and a gentle way to boost your esteem in others’ eyes.
Some innovations are so powerful they require a separate business to present them. Host Bart Jackson’s guest, musician Lisa Pegher has shattered the old symphonic mold of drummers and percussionists languishing in the orchestra’s back row, like accompanying wallpaper. Noted as one of the top six performers of her generation, the inventive Ms. Pegher has taken her virtuoso percussionist talents out to stage front, in concert of with the nation’s top symphonic orchestras. Yet even these superb musicians cannot quite keep pace. To better showcase her ever-evolving compositions, Lisa has formed Controlled Chaos, a new band that is in demand in both traditional and avant musical venues. Tune in and discover the business strategies of moving a revolutionary sound into global prominence in the competitive world of performance. Also, for your delight, savor a taste of the newest array of percussive music.
Where’s the action? For guest Ram V. Iyer, it boils right within the center of Middle-size companies. These are the former startups who have sweated & schemed their way toward the top of their fields. And it is these firms Iyer’s MidMarket Institute and iCEO Clubs are guiding to greater growth. Host Bart Jackson and Ram join forces to help the forgotten middle size firms extend their reach beyond their grasp.
From videos and cars to assembly lines and CFOs, people are owning less and renting more. Guest Robbie Kellman Baxter and her bestselling book The Membership Economy claim this represents a revolutionary shift which is bringing about a grand unifying of our society. Host Bart Jackson, however, disagrees. He sees this shift as merely target marketing on a massive scale. What do you think? Are people defined by their purchases? Are we moving into consumeristic tribes based on what and how we buy? Do Prius or Zip car buyers feel kinship? Host Bart & Guest Robbie square off in friendly debate on The Membership economy. Tune in and wade in with your own opinion - also learn some new techniques for better servicing your clients.
Ladies and gentlemen and people of all diverse experiences: Your ideas and experiences are each and all required in the managerial mix for any company that wants to survive. Host Bart Jackson brings on board author and women's leadership consultant Ms. Rebecca Shambaugh to discuss the benefits of boradening the corporate scope by diversifying your leadership. Ms. Shambaugh's, a feminine C-suite pioneer in her own right, has pointed the way for women's leadership in her best-selling The Leadership Style of Hillary Clinton, and latest Make Room For Her. If you are a man seeking to bring more ideas and fresh perspectives to your company table, or a woman seeking to get the ultimate fulfillment from your career, tune in and revel in the insights. –
Is it worth getting actively involved in your comunity? Only if you do it right. And this show Host Bart Jackson brings on Civic Engagement advocate and coach Jacque Howard to explain how to reach out to your neighbors and reap a realm of benefits you've probably never considered. The person who is esteemed well by his neighbors is a rich person indeed. So it is with your company. Jacque and Bart lay out the smorasbord of options ranging from arts and charitable patronage, to a united corporate effort that fosters literacy or cleans up the local environment. They will guide you in selection and getting started on a beneficial program, with the most fulfillment attitudes. Tune in and learn how you may enrich your self in so many ways by sharing the power of your business.
The more you love it, the higher your career will fly. We all know that success follows on the coattails of passion. So, as we open onto the new and unwritten page of this new year, Host Bart Jackson proffers up his own Top 2016 Resolutions guaranteed to add many more smiles and a lot more enthusiasm into your work life. After all, isn’t it about time you exercised your rights and privileges as CEO of Yourself? Shouldn’t this be the year you begin working for Your best interest and seizing a little more joy into your experiences? Tune in and grab a little of life’s laughter for yourself.
Capitalism, that guiding structure of business for centuries, is shifting from a quest for sheer profit, to a force for benevolent change. It must. It is. And the greatest agent in this global cultural shift is YOU - the working man and woman. Host Bart Jackson shares inights on All business is personal. Tune in and regain a little better grasp of the power you personally hold for getting us on track.
With truly effective marketing, sales is tough business; but without it, sales just don’t happen. Host Bart Jackson shares the studio with the flamboyant and inventively clever Ms. Ilise Benun, CEO & founder of Marketing Mentor. Together they will reveal the tips on pricing packages, niche reformulating, assessing customer needs, subtle publicities, and all those marketing strategies that bring more and better clients to your door. As an exclusive, Ms. Benun unveils her freshly minted 30 Minutes/Day Marketing Plan for Creative Professionals: Get Better Clients in 2016 – a truly profit-catching package. So join Bart and Ilise and learn how to give your products the marketing they deserve.
Imagine you are standing unarmed as a hoard of trigger-ready soldiers strides into your peaceful town hell-bent on destruction. Could you protect the citizens? What would you do? Host Bart Jackson’s guest Mel Duncan, founder of The Nonviolent Peaceforce not only insists “yes, unarmed peacemakers can prevail,” he and his staff daily train peacemaking teams exactly how to thwart such destruction in scores of war-torn lands. Here stands one of the most courageous, positive, and hopeful forces of our time. Got Hope? Tune in and learn from this leader how to inspire the achievement of “the impossible” and take home a greater realization of the forces at work for global peace.
Any intern can put up a website – just like any intern is capable of heading your sales department, Right? The majority of folks learning about your firm and your products gain that vital first impression from your website. Host Bart Jackson brings on the noted web expert Rob Freda, CEO of Princeton Internet Group, Inc., site creators for Liz Claiborne, Sony, Pfizer, Dataram, et al. In his insightful, no-nonsense style Rob discusses the myth and techniques of being mobile friendly; gaining self-control of the site’s content management system; whether intro videos are passé; and the new styles of web searching that are probably making your old site woefully ineffective. Tune in and profitably catch the future.
As the Christmas Countdown nears, Santa Inc.'s preparations are nearing a fiery frenzy. Host Bart Jackson, at great expense, has flown in Santa Claus' Head Elf, Jeanne, to reveal how the jolly saint motivates his team, how he maintains his miraculous level of distribution, and how old St. Nick himself handles the stress. Then, in the second half, Ms. Jeanne Murphy explains her own very real firm - the Santa's Choice Awards, and how they allow both businesses and children to capture the real spirit of the Holidays.
Everyone knows you have to be brave to launch your own business; but until you’ve been there, you really don’t know how brave. Host Bart Jackson commiserates and examines several of the most dire and haunting traumas most every intrepid entrepreneur encounters – and he shares the advice of top business leaders who’ve faced down these demons before. All ye entrepreneurs, should tune in. You may not find any quick-fix silver bullets, but at least we’ll open up a few new avenues of attack and some answers that will allow you to sleep better tonight.
When over 400 million GPS owners and 50 million smartphone holders hear the warm, mellifluous, yet firm tones of Ms. Karen Jacobsen telling them what to do, they listen and drive exactly as her voiceover directs. Even when the dreaded “Recalculating” issues from their magical global positioning machines, Karen is able to break the news with an almost kindly gentility. Host Bart Jackson discusses with guest Karen Jacobsen the intriguing tale of how on earth she positioned herself to seize this plum position – and more interestingly how she has very cleverly grown this invisible opportunity to into a stage stardom as a singer, business mentor, author, concert performer, and sought-after personality. Tune in to discover the entrepreneur behind the voice, and learn how to wisely employ your own remarkable capabilities.
From a wooded swamp to the hub of American competitive rowing, the Princeton National Rowing Association has made its Mercer Lake in central New Jersey the site of national competitions and Olympic training. Host Bart Jackson invites PNRA Executive Director Kris Grudt to trace the path of his non-profit’s success. Additionally, Bart and Kris will discuss the value of this nation’s oldest sport in building leadership, teamwork, and all around more confident individuals. So stick your oar in the water and learn how the best-organized non-profits are doing it, and just what this exciting sport is all about.
Buying & selling companies is one of the most fascinating – and complex – maneuvers in all business. And if Host Bart Jackson’s latest guest, Michael Nall has his way, it is about to get a whole lot simpler. Veteran dealmaker Mike has founded and heads the international Alliance of Merger and Acquisition Advisors, plus the MidMarket Alliance. Now he is leveraging these two Chicago-based organizations into a giant amalgamation of global M&A resources, ranging from legal, accounting, financial, and funding sources to an online strategic buyer/seller market board. What do you think? Are biz sellers, like NASDAQ investors, ready to find strategic buyer quotes on a smartphone app? Tune in and glimpse the future.
While 30 percent of family businesses transfer to the next generation, less than one quarter of them are still producing the same product. So how can you plan an exit strategy? Host Bart Jackson brings on financial advisor Paula Brancato to lay out a smooth, adjustable, and ongoing system that allows you to ride the product-obsolescence rollercoaster and still exit your business – with it thriving and you smiling. Honored by Brava SmartCEO as one of the top female business leaders in 2015, Paula claims a long history of guiding owners and companies through the transfer stage profitably. Tune in and learn what instruments you should be wisely employing now to make your own future wealthy and the transfer of power seamless.
You may be an absolute whiz at formal presentations, with shining personal communication skills. But what have you done for your team lately? Host Bart Jackson brings aboard Matt Abrahams, noted author, Stanford University Lecturer, and founder of BoldEcho Communication Solutions to supply you, Ms./Mr. Leader, with the right techniques and structures to sharpen the communication practices of those co-achievers around you. As today’s business accomplishments grow ever more collaborative, the need for idea-friendly environs and individual communications training becomes ever more vital. Tune in and learn how your team’s wisdom may be more effectively imparted.
Marketing a law firm is a touchy business. High profile cases and clients offer some fleeting brilliance, but how can you keep the public spotlight glowing? Host Bart Jackson invites Michael Wildes, managing partner of the law firm that aided immigration seekers ranging from John Lennon to Miss Universe. Bart and Michael discuss how a professional firm can work advantageously (and profitably) with others – making partners from competitors, and how to keep your name in the minds of future clients. Tune in and learn from the master the best way to market all your assets.
Instead of trying to appeal to people as you wish them to be, why not deal with homo sapiens as they are? So says Host Bart Jackson’s guests Dan Gregory and Kieran Flanagan, founders of the iconoclastic and very sought-after Impossible Institute. This pair of successful advertisers-turned-human-behaviorist have stood the body of sales and motivational knowledge on its very traditional head and pushed for a more human approach. Like all profound wisdom, their method is simple and astoundingly effective. Tune in and learn how large firms are building greater understanding with their employees, and how individual sales folks are finally connecting with their customers’ humanity.
Large, corporate, and public vs. mid-market, private, and closely-held. The business languages are different, the biases immense, and the cultures – like Mercury and Saturn. So can they deal together? Host Bart Jackson’s guest this week, mid-market M&A guru Chris Blees says an emphatic YES. Together Chris and Bart describe the differing cultures, people, expectations, and modes of operation, and they outline the attitude adjustments required for both to play profitably in each other’s yard. Tune in for some fascinating deal-making stories, and a new perspective on our diverse business community.
What’s a Business Quip? It’s a joke, son. Such as “Bosses are like your children – both demand ceaseless care and neither ever lets you finish a sentence.” Got it? And your host Bart Jackson has been writing Quips about business, bundling them into books & videos, and announcing them on the Art of the CEO radio show to proffer colleagues in the business community a little wisdom, and a lot of laughter – and, well, because he loves humor. So if you’d like to laugh a lot, gain a little more insight, and take home some ammunition on such subjects as: Management, Paths to Success, Wage Slaves, Technology, the Fickle Finger of Ethics, and many more, tune in for a full show dedicated to The Business Quip.
Every Leader needs to set his own navigational vision on the team. But visions etched forever in stone, like pyramids, house only the dead. Host Bart Jackson brings on guest James daSilva, Editor of SmartBrief's SmartBlog on Leadership, to give us all some strategies for crafting a vision, instilling it solidly in the team's minds, and adjusting it to fit corporate reality. As a veteran business journalist, James holds a vast knowledge of what it takes to plan your team's or company's course, and how you can communicate this vision with verve to the crew on whom you depend. If you want to get a better message across more effectively, this is a show that will provide you with the needed tools. Tune in, learn a bit, and have some fun.
Sharon Mahn knows anyone in the Big Apple who is doing something interesting; and everyone among the top legal and corporate talent who needs to be known. When the Fortune 500 seeks new leaders, they enlist Sharon. Host Bart Jackson and guest Sharon Mahn discuss the delicate art of the business relationship. How does one get to initially meet those highly beneficial people? What are the steps for progressing from cordial acquaintance onto a personal relationship? What are the business strategies for keeping all relationships ongoing? What do you definitely, absolutely want to avoid doing? Tune in and learn how to have more fun and more profitable encounters.
The boardroom is the pinnacle of business – the highest you can rise. A seat on the board offers you the opportunity to reap the benefits of those hard-won years of experience and judgment. Host Bart Jackson’s featured guest Ms. Genevia Gee Fulbright took her first major bank board seat at the tender age of 31, and she has continued to serve on mainline boards ever since. Founding head of her own CPA firm and noted author on the subject of boards, Fulbright will reveal how to hone the required skills, establish yourself as a candidate, deal with the politics, and what to expect at the directors’ table. Discover the fast track, and learn the inside view.
Today’s colleges are hammering down that ancient ivied wall that for years has separated academia from the bustling realms of business. Higher learning centers like The New Jersey Institute of Technology have traded in the old “Learn first – then live” traditions for fostering learning in midstream of entrepreneurial action. Host Bart Jackson is joined by featured guest Judith Sheft, NJIT’s Associate VP of Technology Development and together they discuss faculty/student ventures; new funding and incubation programs; entrepreneurial courses; and technology transfer. Tune in and learn the opportunities for both students and existing businesses to launch, grow and profit.
Remember those embarrassing moments, those tense situations, or really vital opportunities where the right words would have tilted everything in your favor? Remember what your really answered under pressure - vs. what you wish you'd said? Well, this week, we present about a dozen of the truly stickiest wickets as offered by business leaders from around the globe. We will lay them at the metaphorical feet of host Bart Jackson (self-proclaimed wordsmith par excellence) who will flash & slash back with the exact words that you really should have said - we hope. Somewhere amidst the laughter will flow a great many tips for making your way through the business realm a touch more profitably.
The Supreme Court's verdict is in: The Affordable Care Act has won a reprieve from the 9 highest judges in the land. In all 50 states, the subsidies that enable health insurance for increasing millions of citizens will continue. So what now? Host Bart Jackson invites back John Sarno, acknowledged healthcare guru and president of New Jersey Employers association, to diagnose the health of our healthcare. What are the best advantages and worst pitfalls for employers, salaried employees, and Jane Q. Public? Tune in and discover how well our society is taking care of itself - and at what price.
Forget the Hollywood images, sitting on the board of directors today demands work, wisdom, and sweat. It is no longer your grandfarther's boardroom. Host Bart Jackson invties nationally known board and CEO consultant Thomas Bakewell, author of Claiming Your Place at the Boardroom Table, to discuss just what the job entails, what nominating committees are looking for, and what skills you need to develop to make yourself a serious candidate. Also, for the CEOs in the audience, Tom and Bart give a few tips for the fine art of grooming your board for top performance. If you plan to take your seat, or if dealing with directors is in your future, this is a show you will not want to miss.
The world's most widely read authors tell stories. The world's least effective business folks spew raw data and stats at their audiences. So how do you weave the necessary business info into a spellbinding story that will have folks paying attention? Well, hereby hangs a tale. Host Bart Jackson lays on his lyre and gives his best version of how to present an entrancing business story in several tricky situations. Then comes the expertise: Bart's guest, the premier presentation coach Ms. Eileen Sinett will correct Bart's fumbling attempts and give us the version of how the story really should be sung. Tune in for a lot of laughs and a lot of learning.
Data is not wisdom. Today’s internet allows us to get more fiscal data, accompanied by a truly overwhelming amount of advice. But is this “news” based on agendas that bear no relation to wisely investing your hard-earned dollars? Host Bart Jackson invites internationally noted financial commentator Mr. Ken Kamen as guest to help us separate the fiscal chaff from those rare kernels of profitable advice. Tune in and learn how to master the net and other investment resources, and avoid being led down some gilded, slippery path. It profiteth a person well.
Very shortly the Supreme Court will take its own crack at the Affordable Care Act in a decision which will determine if it lives or dies in 32 states. Bart brings on one of the nation's top ACA authorities, Mr. John Sarno, president of the New Jersey Employers Association and one of the very few folks on the planet who has read every word of the Affordable Care Act. to discuss the benefits and perils such a decision might mean for employers, for employees, and for our society at large.
For many it's the ideal path into entrepreneurial ownership. The tough part is that you have to possess competitively solid skills in accounting, dealing with people, evaluation, and operations. Host Bart Jackson invites on as guest Farmers Insurance's Steven Washburn who is in charge of bringing aboard the new talent as his company invades the East coast. Together Bart and Steven discuss what kind of entrepreneur it take to establish a profitable brokerage; what are some of the best steps (and worst blunders to avoid) during expansion into a new region; and how business leaders need to structure their own insurance in the new year. Everybody deals with insurance - here's your chance to tune in and know the business from the inside.
If you're not actively connected with at least one professional organization, your losing business. Simple as that. Host Bart Jackson this week brings on featured guest Ms. Sally Glick, President of the Association for Corporate Growth, New JerseyChapter, who will discuss the best tactics for selecting the most beneficial organization, and, once you become a member, the most profitable ways to invest your time in it. Additionally, Sally and Bart will define just what it takes to become an effective organizational leader and what's the right stuff to transform a good organization into a great one - like ACG - NJ. Tune in and discover everything your career needs you to know about professional organizations.
You may be an absolute whiz at formal presentations, with shining personal communication skills. But what have you done for your team lately? Host Bart Jackson brings aboard Matt Abrahams, noted author, Stanford University Lecturer, and founder of BoldEcho Communication Solutions to supply you, Ms./Mr. Leader, with the right techniques and structures to sharpen the communication practices of those co-achievers around you. As today’s business accomplishments grow ever more collaborative, the need for idea-friendly environs and individual communications training becomes ever more vital. Tune in and learn how your team’s wisdom may be more effectively imparted.
Putting your money in on the ground floor of a new enterprise makes for one of the most exciting – and risky – investment rides. The profit potential is dazzling. And recently the avenues for early round investing have just gotten more plentiful and confusing. Host Bart Jackson invites Next Generation Trust Services founder Ms. Jaime Raskulinecz to guide us through the Labyrinthine maze of choices. Jaime and Bart will examine accredited and non-accredited investor portals, crowdfunding, angel funding, and more. Want to better your early-stage investment odds with a solid knowledge of the risks and advantages? Tune in and get informed.
Is there more to business than profit? Powerful shareholder groups are gently seizing corporate leaders by the lapels and explaining that unethical actions may mean the loss of their investment. Host Bart Jackson brings on guest Rick Ufford-Chase, co-director of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship which is spearheading the Christian churches’ effort to fiscally nudge US corporations toward more ethical choices in Israel/Palestine and domestically. Are such shareholder groups with nearly $100 Billion in invested assets swaying companies toward right decisions concerning human rights, livable wages, and improved environment? Tune in and find out.
So a volcanic eruption halts your airline - Your Board betrays the company - Your professional women's organization gets raided by the FBI....Here is your chance to strut your leadership stuff. Host Bart Jackson presents some of craziest and most puzzling dilemmas to ever threaten a CEO - each one absolutely true. After each wincing problem is laid out, Bart reveals the solution applied by the actual leader in charge. Think you have a better idea? Call in and tell the world how this really should have been handled. Give us your best shot. Tune in for some tales of the bizarre - and some of the cleverest leadership responses.
From assembly lines to videos, people are owning less and renting more. But does this really mark some revolutionary shift, or is it just one more dressed up marketing tool? Are “members” really uniting into consumeristic tribes – defining themselves by their purchases? Or is the buying public just going after what’s cheapest and most convenient – business as usual? Host Bart Jackson squares off in friendly debate with Robbie Kellman Baxter, advocate and author of The Membership Economy. Tune in and you be the judge (and while you at it, grab some recurring revenue tips.)
When was the last time your words aroused people to action? Do you honestly believe that your communication can influence folks’ attitudes, energies, and lives? Well, Host Bart Jackson’s guest Ben Decker not only says, “Yes, you can!” He continues to prove it by guiding both gawky entrepreneurs and Fortune 100 CEOs into positions of communication influence. If you seek not only to be listened to, but to have your words take wing and inspire the action you seek, tune in and learn the techniques, attitudes, and disciplines that will inspire those who work at your side.
Something new is growing in college dorm rooms. It’s dreams, baby, catch the scent. Budding entrepreneurs are cooking up and kicking off new enterprises in spare moments after classes and term papers. Host Bart Jackson invites as featured guest sophomore businesswoman Ms. Paige Pierce whose fledgling Orchard Outfitters recently won Hobart and William Smith Colleges Entrepreneurial Pitch Contest for the best new business plan. Tune in an learn just what business college students are up to, and how our institutions of higher learning are mentoring and incubating this entrepreneurial trend.
It is tough enough to stay joyfully married when you each trod off on your own divergent career. But when romantic partners are also business partners, it is a real challenge to keep the relationship from feeling doubly shackling. Host Bart Jackson invites the lovingly married co-CEOs of Business Advancement, Inc., Mr. Scott Harper and Ms. Pam Harper to show us how it’s done – and done admirably. With the recent explosion of small, agile businesses, family firms in which husband and wife are pulling side by side has become increasingly common. While such enterprises hold unique satisfactions, they also demand an extra dose of planning, and thoughtful consideration. Tune in and learn how to garner a more joyful and profitable ROI from your relationships.
How does a printer rise from dusty board games & playing cards to become the international reigning guru of this new generation's new generation of international participatory games? Part 1 of The Art of the CEO's Innovation Series features the amazing lady who had done just that. Ms. Shari Spiro, CEO of Ad Magic, comes on board as Host Bart Jackson's featured guest to reveal exactly how she has reinvented her custom printing company to become the go-to resource for gamers across the globe. Yes, board games, puzzles and playing cards are still very much part of the thinking class' recreational scene. But no, these are not your grandmothers' whist, bridge & Monopoly. Today's games have stormed the internet. They are iconoclastic, edgy, novel, and involve players in the hundreds of thousands. Tune in and learn the masterful way to seize and profit from a burgeoning market.
You already know the Chinese are big. You know they are economically powerful. But do you really understand what is driving the people of this society as it steps into a leading role on the global economic stage? You had better. Host Bart Jackson invites Savio Chan, author of the smash hit bestseller "China's Super Consumers" as his featured guest to discuss what this billion-person buying force is looking for - and what we need to do to meet their demands. Together, Bart and Savio will dig in, take you through the motivating history and culture of this awakening super power. You'll learn what we hold in common, and what practices are distinct. What do you need to do to make your business available and attractive to the Chinese market? What are some of the best ways to venture into China? What secret did Steve Jobs learn from Savio Chan that helped him sell the iPhone in China? Tune in, and be receptive to change.
Ladies and gentlemen and people of all diverse experiences: Your ideas and experiences are each and all required in the managerial mix for any company that wants to survive. Host Bart Jackson brings on board author and women's leadership consultant Ms. Rebecca Shambaugh to discuss the benefits of boradening the corporate scope by diversifying your leadership. Ms. Shambaugh's, a feminine C-suite pioneer in her own right, has pointed the way for women's leadership in her best-selling The Leadership Style of Hillary Clinton, and latest Make Room For Her. If you are a man seeking to bring more ideas and fresh perspectives to your company table, or a woman seeking to get the ultimate fulfillment from your career, tune in and revel in the insights.
'Tis a simple human truth: the more of your own self you put into your message, the more effective it will be. Leaders who make the time to let folks look 'em in the eye and hear the news from their own lips gain a powerful, competive edge that too many are ignoring in this digitalk age. Host Bart Jackson tells tales and tactics employed by business masters to put the full force of their personality in front of those they seek to reach. So pull your eyes away from the screen, give your texting thumbs a well-earned rest, and stride from Plato's cave into the light. Learn how top leaders transform themselves from a printed name and title, to a powerful personna in the minds of staff, shareholders, and clients. Learn how getting down and personal swiftly leads you beyond data, into actionable fact. Tune in and find the tactics that will make your presence more powerful and your workday more fun.
They lurk in every corner of the office: the Smiling Extortionist; the Moist-lipped sycophant; The Grand Seigneur who sees the company as himself. For a bit of unrefined fun, Host Bart Jackson invites on corporate veteran Lew Lederman to parade many of the fiercesome characters we all know and dread from his newest book “A Zoology of Dangerous Businesspeople.” Tune in, laugh, and learn to be wary.
"If you really, really have something to say - tell it as a story," says Ms. Eileen Sinett, CEO of Speaking That Connects and a cleverly crafting story spinner in her own right. Since the ancient Greek poet Homer smote his tuneful lyre, humankind has been entranced by stories. The suspense, the plot, the craving for what happens next sets audiences on the edge of their seats, and gives speakers the opportunity to drive home their message. Thus has the fine art of story telling become a profitable and envied business ability. Instead of merely claiming that the car is fast and durable, the salesperson who can weave a narrative example of how it has moved and survived in a slightly scary situation is more likely to win the sale. Host Bart Jackson and his featured guest Eileen discuss the techniques for transforming your lackluster report or presentation into a powerful business tool that makes you the folks want to hear more. Tune in and profit from all of the story.
"The real key is to treat Clients as Constituents," explains NJ Business Hall of Famer Ms. Aldonna Ambler. To celebrate his first anniversary show, Host Bart Jackson invites Aldonna on board to share her practical philosophy of client service which has catapaulted The Growth Strategist, Inc. into a globally revered and sought-after consultant firm. Together they will discuss what to do, and more importantly, how to view those customers whose needs you are in business to fill. Want your business to be more agile and adaptive to customer's needs? Want clients who will brag about your good service? Tune in and learn how to apply the model that brings praise and revenue to your business.
So you land a contract which calls for you to quintuple your staff and business model. Oopps! How do you ramp up to that kind of growth, meet client demands, transform your entire plant and still keep your business and psyche on a sane, profitable course? Host Bart Jackson invites as featured guest construction's enigmatic Lady In Red to tell us how she did it - and how it's really done best. AtlanticInfra's founder and CEO, Ms. Marilyn Grabowski faced a potentially lethal dose of success grew almost instaneously without exploding. Tune in and learn how to grow optimally - and also take some tips on turning supposed unique liabilities into startling branding assets.
It takes a lot of heavy lifting to allow New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's Maestro Jacques Lacombe to raise his baton and unleash the world's most beautiful music. Host Bart Jackson discusses with NJSO's CEO Mr. James Roe the exacting process of blending business with fine musical art. If you have ever wondered what's involved in creating a major concert; how many people perform what tasks; how an orchestra generates revenue streams; and all the challenges demanded to keep this symphonic machine fiscally afloat, this is the show you will not want to miss. Tune in, take a peak behind the scenes, and learn a few takeaway tips for your own business.
When top business talent recruiters scour the globe for just the right CEO, where do they search? What are they hunting for? What do they employ as bait? Host Bart Jackson and his featured guest Sharon Mahn, master recruiter for Fortune 100 firms, reveal these answers and many more. Ms. Mahn's planetary network of business leaders keeps her hopping from Budapest to Beijing to Biloxi, constantly bringing back alive those uniquely capable individuals who can step into the CEO or C-suite slot and launch a corporation innovatively forward. Ever think you've got that special fire? Ever wonder what special skills you might want to develop and with whom you need to connect? Tune in and learn how the leadership culling process really works.
Ever wonder what those CEOs who are already doing it so well plan to do better in 2015? Well, here's your chance to find out. Host Bart Jackson invites aboard Carol Ezzo, veteran COO of several companies, to co-host and toast in the new year. Together, they will reveal what personal promises top leaders have made to improve themselves and their companies - along with a list of what really catapulted leaders forward in 2014.
Somewhere between herding sheep and herding sharks lies the manager's most effective method of gathering his team into a motivated decision-making process. Host Bart Jackson is joined by guest John Sarno, author, professor, and CEO of the Employers Association of New Jersey. Together, they discuss the workable practices for sparking the best of your team's little gray cells, and avoid letting the solutions-seeking effort fall into GroupThink default. In a humorous back-and-forth banter, this and other topics from John Sarno's upcoming book will provide leaders with a load of guidance and a lot of fun.
Need an employee who's been trained to be trainable, holds high-level skills, and the character to tackle any problem? Host Bart Jackson celebrates Veterans Day by bringing aboard Jack Fanous, CEO of the G.I. Go Fund designed to give military veterans better careers and you a better business. Together they discuss compliance, tax credit cash, improved work forces, and other benefits of hiring vets. As as an ART of the CEO Exclusive: Fanous will be launching his new Vet career training organization on our airwaves: www.YourJobPath.com. Look and listen for it.
For many it's the ideal path into entrepreneurial ownership. The tough part is that you have to possess competitively solid skills in accounting, dealing with people, evaluation, and operations. Host Bart Jackson invites on as guest Farmers Insurance's Steven Washburn who is in charge of bringing aboard the new talent as his company invades the East coast. Together Bart and Steven discuss what kind of entrepreneur it take to establish a profitable brokerage; what are some of the best steps (and worst blunders to avoid) during expansion into a new region; and how business leaders need to structure their own insurance in the new year. Everybody deals with insurance - here's your chance to tune in and know the business from the inside.
No group of clients are more whimsical, less loyal, more assaulted by and defensive against sales pitches, less definable, and just plain more unpredictable than Mr. and Ms. John Q. Public when they walk into a retail store. On the other hand, those few who can meet the public's elusive needs, and can craft wrap up the package just right are garnering boundless profits. Host Bart Jackson invites guest John Holub, President of the New Jersey Retail Merchants Association, to tell just what it takes to craft an effective retail enterprise. What items - and what people sell best? What are the trendy winds to watch for? What about online stores? What techniques are the really successful merchants using that you need to apply? Come gather a wallet full of sales wisdom.
How does the jolly, bearded guy do it? Is there some special secret lurking in his all-generosity, no-marketing formula that holds the key to Kris Kringle's globally unmatched production and distribution? Host Bart Jackson has enticed Santa's Chief Executive Elf (CEE), Ms. Jeanne Murphy (also founder of The Santa's Choice Awards) to finally reveal how Santa and his crew wrap the whole Christmas spirit into a single package. Tune in to have little fun and to learn how you and your firm may profitably catch the true spirit of the season.
What other non-profit could transform a 102-year-old pinup model into an international fund raising icon? The Galapagos Conservancy launched tortoise Lonesome George into global stardom and the remote string of Pacific islands onto donation lists worldwide. Host Bart Jackson chats with Conservancy President and Founder, Johannah Barry to learn the secrets of the organization's success and innovative style of management. One of the most diverse and environmentally unique spots on earth, the Galapagos has been the center of scientific study since Charles Darwin's HMS Beagle first landed. The delicate art of blending the govermental, scientific, and environmental communities into a unified protective force has been the Conservancy's mission and success story. Tune in and learn how this lean, effective non-profit is setting a standard and model for others to follow.
Corporations and those who lead them have become the strong and vital patrons of our culture. They sponsor and advocate for our arts, education, hospitals, and our environment. Our community charities depend on our businesses, and our businesses depend on a good relationship with their community. This week host Bart Jackson invites Thomas Bakewell, author of Claiming Your Place at the Boardroom Table, to discuss how business people may plan charitable strategies that create a win-win for both givers and recipients. It's all part of being a good corporate neighbor, and now, in this season of generosity, 'tis time to take pause and consider the best ways to use our resources for the benefit of all. As always, those who give and those given unto are each bless the other.
If you're not actively connected with at least one professional organization, your losing business. Simple as that. Host Bart Jackson this week brings on featured guest Ms. Sally Glick, President of the Association for Corporate Growth, New Jersey Chapter, who will discuss the best tactics for selecting the most beneficial organization, and, once you become a member, the most profitable ways to invest your time in it. Additionally, Sally and Bart will define just what it takes to become an effective organizational leader and what's the right stuff to transform a good organization into a great one - like ACG - NJ. Tune in and discover everything your career needs you to know about professional organizations.
In celebration of Nov. 17-23 Global Entrepreneurship Week, Host Bart Jackson invites Dr. Arturo Osorio, professor of Entrepreneurship and Global Business at Rutgers University, to discuss the broadening scope of today's world-wide businesses and how startups are seizing advantage by targeting markets from Tibet to Tierra del Fuego. Professor Osorio will also point out the increasing trend toward - and benefits of - social entrepreneurship. For those who want to make their startup dreams bear fruit and anyone who wants his/her current company firm to blossom into a sustainable enterprise without borders, tune in and catch the insights.
Need an employee who's been trained to be trainable, holds high-level skills, and the character to tackle any problem? Host Bart Jackson celebrates Veterans Day by bringing aboard Jack Fanous, CEO of the G.I. Go Fund designed to give military veterans better careers and you a better business. Together they discuss compliance, tax credit cash, improved work forces, and other benefits of hiring vets. As as an ART of the CEO Exclusive: Fanous will be launching his new Vet career training organization on our airwaves: www.YourJobPath.com. Look and listen for it.
All right ladies & genetlmen of business, it's time for you to stop being so frightened of laws and lawmakers, and start seeing their advantage for your firms. As an Election Day Special, host Bart Jackson invites New Jersey Senator Linda Greenstein on as guest to set the record straight about Political Parties - the Environment - Unions - Minimum Wage - Taxes - and which laws & lawmakers are proving themselves business friendly. Prepare to let go of your misconceptions and learn the many profitable benefits in dealing with government - the correct way. This will be a hot one you do not want to miss.
'Tis not your rank or title, but the raw material within that holds your ability to generate influence beyond what you might imagine. Host Bart Jackson invites guest Dale Caldwell, serial CEO, business and social entrepreneur, educator, renoned consultant, and author of "Intelligent Influence" to discuss how to cultivate your influential self. Whether you seek to boost sales, your career, or just make your ideas strike home with a greater force, this show is laden with applicable tools.
Forget the Hollywood images, sitting on the board of directors today demands work, wisdom, and sweat. It is no longer your grandfarther's boardroom. Host Bart Jackson invties nationally known board and CEO consultant Thomas Bakewell, author of Claiming Your Place at the Boardroom Table, to discuss just what the job entails, what nominating committees are looking for, and what skills you need to develop to make yourself a serious candidate. Also, for the CEOs in the audience, Tom and Bart give a few tips for the fine art of grooming your board for top performance. If you plan to take your seat, or if dealing with directors is in your future, this is a show you will not want to miss.
In this outcome-obsessed society, too many business folks grope desperately for success, forgetting the very reason they were attracted to business in the first place. Host Bart Jackson brings on global hedge fund pioneer Keith Danko as guest, to set us on the infinitely more satisfying path toward a fulfilling career. Having risen with marked success to the top of one of business' most competitive arenas, Danko passes on not a step-by-step guide, but rather an original, carefully thought out philosphy of conduct and attitude that leads to an enriched life, employing the strengths we already possess. Banishing the distractions of futile comparison, competition, and attitude makeovers, Danko invites individuals to manage the processes surrounding them - and guess what? You already hold the tools you need. Absolutely any gentleman or lady seeking more out of their business life will want to listen and learn from from these insights.
Host Bart Jackson invites TV's News 12 Anchor Bryan Jenkins on as guest to help unveil the many entrepreneurial myths and to show business starters how it is more important to be right, than speedy. Bryan's latest launch, FlyTime Media takes advantage of a very obvious, and very untapped market for advertising and valued content that your going to kick yourself for not having invented first. More impotantly, Bryan reveals many of commercial insights that have allowed him to see partners where others see competitors; bring top talent to his venture; and present FlyTime as a professional, inventive enterprise. Whether you are growing or starting your business, tune in and listen to a master.
Somewhere between herding sheep and herding sharks lies the manager's most effective method of gathering his team into a motivated decision-making process. Host Bart Jackson is joined by guest John Sarno, author, professor, and CEO of the Employers Association of New Jersey. Together, they discuss the workable practices for sparking the best of your team's little gray cells, and avoid letting the solutions-seeking effort fall into GroupThink default. In a humorous back-and-forth banter, this and other topics from John Sarno's upcoming book will provide leaders with a load of guidance and a lot of fun.
Wine may be bottled poetry and elegant joy, but it stands as one of the toughest business operations to bring to fruition. In celebration of harvest time and New Jersey Wine Week, host Bart Jackson invites Larry Sharrott, president of the Garden State Winegrowers Association and owner of Sharrott Winery to discuss the business side of titilating your palate. Winemaking is regulated heavily by the hand of law, blessed by the god Bacchus, and, often as not, cursed by winds of fate and weather. New Jersey vintners have been steadily advancing the overdue respect for Garden State wines - an amazingly clever tale of branding. Tune in and learn how farmers survive and thrive making the beverage the whole globe enjoys.
Marketing a documentary film, as every cinemagraphic producer knows, rivals explorer James Cameron's seven-mile plunge into the oceans darkest depths. In both cases, you have no idea how vast is the void you are getting into. Host Bart Jackson brings aboard producer of the newly released "James Cameron's Deep Sea Challenge" Mr. James Burke, who has managed already to bring to light record numbers of viewers. Burke and his company Disruptive LA have revolutionized the independent film industry with a completely innovative marketing strategy that is both scientifically based and incredibly interactive. As a film fan, you will want to learn about Burke's latest production. As anyone who has ever tried to bring a product to market, you need to catch a taste of Mr. Burke's groundbreaking methods. You definitely want to tune in and invest in this show.
Marketing a documentary film, as every cinemagraphic producer knows, rivals explorer James Cameron's seven-mile plunge into the oceans darkest depths. In both cases, you have no idea how vast is the void you are getting into. Host Bart Jackson brings aboard producer of the newly released "James Cameron's Deep Sea Challenge" Mr. James Burke, who has managed already to bring to light record numbers of viewers. Burke and his company Disruptive LA have revolutionized the independent film industry with a completely innovative marketing strategy that is both scientifically based and incredibly interactive. As a film fan, you will want to learn about Burke's latest production. As anyone who has ever tried to bring a product to market, you need to catch a taste of Mr. Burke's groundbreaking methods. You definitely want to tune in and invest in this show.
It is one thing to set up a chain of convenience stores. It is quite another to create 651 stores along the East coast that are intimate, a daily routine destination, and habit forming for millions of extrodinarily loyal customers. Host Bart Jackson invites former CEO and current Vice-board Chair Howard Stoeckel to explain exactly how Wawa (which means Canada in Objibwe) generates a family-like spirit among its employees and affection from its clients. Imagine having your two best-selling items coming from, and being implemented by, folks behind the counter, while senior management supports the innovations. Forget all the buzzwords and lip-service, if you want to really learn how getting deeply personal has fostered success in this major corporation, tune in and take note.
Every Leader needs to set his own navigational vision on the team. But visions etched forever in stone, like pyramids, house only the dead. Host Bart Jackson brings on guest James daSilva, Editor of SmartBrief's SmartBlog on Leadership, to give us all some strategies for crafting a vision, instilling it solidly in the team's minds, and adjusting it to fit corporate reality. As a veteran business journalist, James holds a vast knowledge of what it takes to plan your team's or company's course, and how you can communicate this vision with verve to the crew on whom you depend. If you want to get a better message across more effectively, this is a show that will provide you with the needed tools. Tune in, learn a bit, and have some fun.
Can you really resurrect a company that has cratered and plunged you into debt? Well, like the mythical Phoenix of Eld, Host Bart Jackson's latest guest, Mr. Marty Metro has achieved this near-unique entrepreneurial feat with his firm Used Cardboard Boxes Company. Metro's firm has bootstrapped itself from begging at banks for payroll, on up to becoming a highly profitable supplier of Walmart. And through the entire metamorphosis, this entrepreneur kept the same product. You don't need to plunge into debt to learn the Metro method of assessing your company/career, finding where you stand, and how to apply a new direction. This is a true parable that can help all of us do a little bootstrapping on our own. Tune in, be fascinated, and learn. He is a man with his own ideas. http://www.UsedCardboardBoxes.com
Ever walk into a plant that’s so vibrant with personal energy? Ever work with folks who are not keeping pace with market demand – they are over-leaping it? Is that YOUR firm? Host Bart Jackson brings on guest Darrell Gunter, whose Gunter Media Group has sparked that innovative fire in countless companies. Together they will define and discuss some solid, practical methods you can employ that unleash creative energies in everyone from the cube-farm to the C-suite. Finally, some real, effective tools. Want to forge a plant where improvement is king and fresh ideas roam free? Tune in and catch the spark.
In this outcome-obsessed society, too many business folks grope desperately for success, forgetting the very reason they were attracted to business in the first place. Host Bart Jackson brings on global hedge fund pioneer Keith Danko as guest, to set us on the infinitely more satisfying path toward a fulfilling career. Having risen with marked success to the top of one of business' most competitive arenas, Danko passes on not a step-by-step guide, but rather an original, carefully thought out philosphy of conduct and attitude that leads to an enriched life, employing the strengths we already possess. Banishing the distractions of futile comparison, competition, and attitude makeovers, Danko invites individuals to manage the processes surrounding them - and guess what? You already hold the tools you need. Absolutely any gentleman or lady seeking more out of their business life will want to listen and learn from from these insights.
Sometimes you just have to change horses in midstream. Succession, like death, comes knocking at the most inconvenient times. Host Bart Jackson brings on as featured guest Pastor Dave Davis, Chair of the Trustees of the Presbyterian Foundation. This fiscal arm for all the Presbyterian churches in the US raises, cajoles, invests, sets mission strategies for, and distributes its $60 million dollars annually to broadly enhance the faith and better the lives of folks worldwide. From aiding a new Palestinian business in the ancient city of Jericho to refurbishing a clergy retirement home in Pennsylvania, this group makes the decisions and makes sure it happens effectively. Recently, after eight years on the board, Pastor Davis is stepping down and passing the torch to another chairperson. Despite some unsettling times in the church and contended decisions, Foundation CEO Tom Taylor is taking this change with the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. Dave explains why, and provides tips for a smooth changing of the management.
Courtesy, my friend, is kindness which not only boosts your reputation, it literally boosts your own stock - (stock people take of you and that they hold in your company.) Host Bart Jackson invites the reigning guru of business etiquette, Ms. Mary Mitchell, noted author, columnist and international consultant, to show how to conduct yourself and your business most personally - and most beneficially. What are the most beneficial procedures for using the smartphone - making texts - sending e-mails - and dealing with all the new communication methods? In those many personal face-to-face communications, what are the most polite and effective words & methods of behavior? If you are a person of good character, tune in find the best ways of letting folks see your optimum side.
Corporations may not be people, but it is only wise for them to be good neighbors. Host Bart Jackson invites nationally noted sales consultant Marc Willson on as featured guest to discuss the steps and benefits of being a good company neighbor within your community. Reaching out and making your firm and its services known profits quite literally not only the retail store, but the small and large B2B enterprises. Your community offers the ultimate networking opportunity and holds up your company name in the best possible light. Want to get government off your back and on your side? Tune in and learn how to be a good neighbor.
After you yell, "Eureka" and gaze lovingly at your new world-beater invention - now comes the hard part. Host Bart Jackson invites as guest Dan Conley, veteran angel, company creator, and entrepreneurial counsel, to point out the right steps and the missteps for transforming your product into a going, profitable business concern. Together they will lay out an organized strategy for aligning your product with customer need, making effective presentations to funders, gathering the right team, and much, much more. If you have a business, or dream of launching one, here come the techniques that will move your ledger into black ink.
Host Bart Jackson helps us all celebrate our Independence Day by uncovering a few of the business folks (some quite saintly - some not so saintly) who have brought our land to the incredible state in which we find ourselves. America began as a capital venture with folks seeking the unheard of return of 5 percent. It took its founding from a group of honest merchants and rebellious smugglers. We owe our war of independence victory to a merchant and his socialite wife. America founded the first chain of retail stores which launched its founder into the White House - then into the poor house. And our nation was railroaded into the machine age in a large part due to two stockbrokers turned cotton "merchants" in the Civil War. Tune in and learn how the business of America has always been buisness.
Host Bart Jackson brings on guest Ms. Alexandra Lajoux, Chief Knowlege Officer of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Together they discuss the need for and benefits of building companies dedicated to improving the society in which they work. They'll also chat about Alex's latest book "The Art of Bank M&A."
From every port and harbor, buisness leaders are calling for "innovation." 'Tis not only the latest buzzword, it is a very vital requirement for companies trying to shift and keep pace with ever-changing markets. Question is, are you, Mr./Ms. Manager, actually fostering a culture which accepts change and rewards new ideas, or are you inadvertantly stomping on the innovative flow? Host Bart Jackson brings on guest John Sarno, head of the Employers Association of New Jersey to find out who is is cleverly nurturing innovation among employees - and how they are doing it. Want a good idea? Learn how to draw it out of your employees from this show.
You don't build a corporate culture by fiats hurled down from above. Values, ethics, and the sprit of a company spring up from the grass roots, with every individual involved. This week Host Bart Jackson is bringing on attorney Joel Greenwald, who launched a corporate vision and values by involving every member of his Manhattan law firm Greenwald Doherty, LLP. Here is a model that any size can emulate and apply with immense benefits. By uniting the entire team behind the firm's stated basic beliefs, morale sprialed and every staff member felt like a stakeholder. Want to make yours a more desirable and productive place to work? Tune in and see how it's done.
Are pensions a thing of the past? Does your exit strategy take into consideration the new legislation? (Bet it doesn't.) Host Bart Jackson is joined by premier wealth manager Roy Williams whose new book, "Only Retire Once" will keep you from having to say to strangers "Do you want fries with that" in your golden years. Learn the way to plot a fulfilling life after you profitably pass on your business and/or end your career. All folks who don't want to outlive their money should tune in.
Playing profitably with others is never childsplay. How do you handle that second-in-command who tries to undermind your authority with the board? What if that absolutely top salesperson is not a team player, but you really need her revenue stream? How do you gently step in when no member of the team seems to be able to make a decision? We invite you to call in today and help us gnaw over these and other all-too-real problems that individual managers have reported to us. We will add a laughter as we dredge up some solutions.
Like it or not, Mr./Ms. CEO you ARE the image of your company. Display the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces, and people will support your firm accordingly. Host Bart Jackson calls upon the expertise of guest Ms. Eileen Sinett, nationally renowned presentation coach who draws out the most effective and delightful aspects of business leaders. Do you know when to employ the blessing of silence in your presentations? How to present your most vital ideas in a formal speech - and tougher yet, informally? Come listen to Bart's guest Eileen Sinett and learn how to put your best self forward profitably.
Forget all the tried and true tactics of estate planning your advisors formerly told you. Under the new laws, these practices could be slitting your fiscal throat. Host Bart Jackson invites Martin Shenkman, CPA, attorney, and one of the nation’s most sought after estate planners to explain how new legislation means new estate strategies. Are you one of those who have undervalued your firm for tax reasons or annually divested stock to your heirs? OOPS!
Whose Insurance money is it anyway? Captive insurance is exploding in both popularity and practicality. Once reserved for only the Fortune 500, this self-insuring concept in which a company sets aside funds to act both policyholder and insuror is becoming the rsik-management solution for large and even mid-size firms. While mainstream insurance premiums soar to the stratosphere, more state legislatures are not only allowing, but fiscally encouraging captive insurance. Host Bart Jackson invites sage tax counsel Mark MacDonald as guest to examine the possibilities of captive insurance - and help you learn how to figure out the benefits, whom to select a service provider, what kind of structures to use, and what blunders to avoid.
Once thought to be reserved for only the Fortune 500, captive insurance programs are becoming more increasingly numerous, practical, and thrifty for mid-size firms. As mainstream insurance premiums head for the stratosphere, companies are opting to managing their insurable risk
The concept of a company using its own earmarked funds to establish a program in which it is both policyholder and insuror dates back to the 1950's. But now, with mainstream insurance premiums soaring to the stratosphere, and state legislatures making the process more allowed and affordable,
After you yell, "Eureka" and gaze lovingly at your new world-beater invention - now comes the hard part. Host Bart Jackson invites as guest Dan Conley, veteran angel, company creator, and entrepreneurial counsel, to point out the right steps and the missteps for transforming your product into a going, profitable business concern. Together they will lay out an organized strategy for aligning your product with customer need, making effective presentations to funders, gathering the right team, and much, much more. If you have a business, or dream of launching one, here come the techniques that will move your ledger into black ink.
Yes, your life's blood is due today. Time for you to pony up to the powers that rule, for the priveliges of living in this great society. Host Bart Jackson brings on a surprise CPA who will spin tales of criminal tax laws and criminals who tried a bit too hard to get around them. So no matter how bad you think you have it this year, come and learn of those scenarios (old and new) which will bring a smile and make your plight seem comparitively lighter. (Did you know you could play in the Superbowl and owe the tax man more than you made? Talk about an illegal tackle.)
No group of clients are more whimsical, less loyal, more assaulted by and defensive against sales pitches, less definable, and just plain more unpredictable than Mr. and Ms. John Q. Public when they walk into a retail store. On the other hand, those few who can meet the public's elusive needs, and can craft wrap up the package just right are garnering boundless profits. Host Bart Jackson invites guest John Holub, President of the New Jersey Retail Merchants Association, to tell just what it takes to craft an effective retail enterprise. What items - and what people sell best? What are the trendy winds to watch for? What about online stores? What techniques are the really successful merchants using that you need to apply? Come gather a wallet full of sales wisdom.
No, common knowledge is not always wise, or always right. Not everyone is getting rich within a month, despite media assurances. Being busy, or connected has no correlation to success. Do speedy decision makers make the best decisions? Do impressive social media stats/activity lead to sales? Do powerful personalities make the best leaders - do engaging ones? Is now really a terrible time to invest or launch a startup? And what about the myth of the market share pie? Business folks, don't just accept or reject a commonly held belief - join us on this show and seek the kernels of truth. Call in and help us tease out the facts you need to know. The rich get richer, but the informed buy them out.
Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want because they want to do it. It is the most vital skill required of leaders. It is also the leader's ultimate challenge. Host Bart Jackson invites Darrell Gunter, CEO of GunterMediaGroup, to help him lay out a consensus-building strategy for CEOs and supervisors alike. This show profiles specific tactics for uniting your team and proven techniques for inspiring individuals to invest in the group goals. If you are seeking a way turn the elusive ideal of motivation into a defined business process; if you want to get everyone on your team finally pointed in the same direction, this is your show. Don't miss it.
Are you and your business stuck in the tarpit of a plateau? Host Bart Jackson and his guest Ms. Jaime Raskulinecz reveal the process for advancing from a flourishing startup into a thriving, expanding corporation. Founder of several companies, Jaime is currently CEO of Next Generation Trust Services, which she has lauched and channeled into a swift stream of high growth. Learn what she did right, what she regrets, and find some tools you may adopt.
Success is constructing your job to fit your life, not viceversa. Host Bart Jackson invites entrepreneur and co-owner of Keylingo Translations of Princeton Ms. Laurie Seliger who found her optimal career solution by boldly stepping into the realm of franchise ownership. Learn from Laurie how to assess your personal needs, how to size up the franchise options and revenue potential, and what it takes to shift from salary to startup. The "Escape from the Cube Farm" series is part of the Art of the CEO show's effort to provide working men and women with diverse paths toward greater success and satisfaction.
Host Bart Jackson brings on guest Ms. Alexandra Lajoux, Chief Knowlege Officer of the National Association of Corporate Directors. Together they discuss the need for and benefits of building companies dedicated to improving the society in which they work. They'll also chat about Alex's latest book "The Art of Bank M&A."
Host Bart Jackson invites Genevia Gee Fulbright, former member of several corporate boards including a bank and mutual fund to discuss why a company needs diversity of experience and expertise among its board members - and how CEOs can help encourage this broader board scope.
Host Bart Jackson invites on as guest renowned international trade consultant, and author of "Winning at Going Global," Mr. Brian Shube. Together they will discuss the advantages, benfits, and lurking pitfalls for the businessperson seeking to venture abroad. This show tells the techniques of prifitable import/export; where to find and develop international partners, and where the help lies as business leaders step beyond our borders.
Author and Publisher Bart Jackson introduces you to several of the most effective business leaders, and reveals several of the tactics of their mastery. This is an excellent show for managers and executives aiming for the big chair, or for simply seeking more business success and satisfaction.