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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 –...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...