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    Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream

    In Minority Business Success, authors Leonard Greenhalgh and James Lowry chart a path for the full participation of minority businesses in the U.S. economy. Today, minorities are well on their way to becoming the majority of our workforce and a large part of our entrepreneurial endeavors; their full contribution is essential to national competitive advantage in a global economy.

    The beginning of this book summarizes demographic changes in America and shows why it’s in the national interest to foster the survival, prosperity, and growth of minority-owned businesses. The authors outline why these businesses are vital to the solution to our current economic woes. Next, the book turns to what minority firms must do to take their place in major value chains, and, finally, the book examines what governments, corporations, and support organizations ought to be doing to foster minority inclusion. In total, Greenhalgh and Lowry lay out a new paradigm for developing minority businesses so that they can fully contribute to our national competitive advantage and prosperity.

    Minority Business Success: Refocusing on The American Dream

    Leonard Greenhalgh is Director of Programs for Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
    He is the author of Managing Strategic Relationships.
    His work in helping minority business is reflected in the Lifetime Achievement Award conferred by the Minority Business Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce.

    James H. Lowry is a nationally recognized workforce and supplier diversity expert and a Senior Advisor for The Boston Consulting Group. Previously a Senior Vice President at BCG and Global Diversity Director, he led the firm’s workforce diversity, ethnic marketing, and minority business development consulting practice.
    In 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Minority Supplier Development Council.
    He is presently a member of the Howard School of Business board and serves as Chairman for the Howard University Entrepreneurship Center.

     

    Lessons from Steven Spielberg

    Focus on the client (the audience)
    Learn from your mistakes
    Conquer your fears
    Take risks
    Follow your inpiration
    Face your fears
    Admit your weakness
    Innovate
    Your character is what matters
    Dare to be different
    Listen to that little voice (the one that whispers) not what others say
    Dream for a living

    Innovation and Failure

    Innovation is important yet it is not the only metrics of importance.

    Growth and Adaptability are also important because assuming you can do the same thing you always have and remain in business is well – insane.

    Did you know Kodak is a 100 plus year old company and is the company that invented the digital camera.

    Despite the fact they created a new market they never figured out how to thrive in the very market they created!

    Consider this a cautionary tale for those resisting change and wanting business as usual – innovation alone is not enough but staying the same is a path to failure!

    http://www.examiner.com/photography-in-national/kodak-on-the-verge-of-bankruptcy

    Veteran Construction and Support Employment Oppurtunity

    Job Type: Construction (and Support Services) type jobs

    Location: Lubbock, Texas Area

    Project Start Month: February 2012

    Job Duration: 18 Months

    Pay: Competitive

    Contact: Meta J. Mereday  vedi@topflightllc.net

    Business Values

     

    What is truly important to your business?

    What drives your company?

    Is it safety, quality, customer service, production?

    What metrics do you measure?

    What does your compensation structure say about what is important with respect to the behavior you financially award?

    How do you market your business?

    Many companies reach a certain level of growth and profit than stop.

    The business is healthy, the product or sevice sound yet for some reason it just stagnats.

    Many businesses run into this issue.

    The reason this occurs is because they business is not marketing itself.

    New customers and clients are not being educated as to the benefits of doing business with XYZ

    Allow me to elaborate  most business have a great operation/manufacturing, quality, human resources, technical (sometimes) and other plan yet gave no serious thought to marketing

    Imagine if you will a car

    Most cares have a driver – lets say the C level staff or owners

    They have fuel – the clients

    They have an engine – the core employees

    They have 4 wheels

    • Wheel 1 – Operations/Quality (IT, Safety, etc) Processes
    • Wheel 2 – Manufacturing and/or Services Processes
    • Wheel 3 – Financial Processes
    • Wheel 4 – Marketing Processes

    Does your business have all of its wheels?

    Printing capabilities now available

    Do you have a project you need printed? 

    Contact Stephen Bailey at (513) 312-9111 or leave a message on our main line (980) 428-9867 with the details of the project you would like completed.  You can also email the project details to printing@topflightllc.net

    A partial list of the projects possible includes but not limited to:

    • Presentation Materials
    • Offset Print
    • Digital Print
    • Direct Mail
    • Mobile Displays
    • Large Format Printing
    • Prepress and Finishing
    • High Quality archival Printing
    • In house mail services
    • Custom printing and Binding
    • Expert Substrate / paper selection
    • Optional eco friendly materials and processes are also available

    A listing of the available equipment:

    PRESSROOM Consists of:

    • Ryobi 685D Offset Press
    • 20”x27” – 5 Color Press with Aqueous Coater
    • Ryobi 535HX Offset Press
    • 14”x20” – 5 Color Press with Aqueous Coater
    • HeidelbergPrintMaster46
    • 12”x18” – 2 Color Press

    DIGITAL PRESSES:

    • (2) Canon 7000VP – Full Color Digital Presses (Variable Data, OnDemand)
    • (2) Canon 1015 B&W Digital Copiers

    FULL BINDERY CAPABILITIES:

    • MBO B26 – Folder w/right angle
    • Polar 92EM Guillotine cutter
    • 76 Guillitone Cutter
    • Duplo 30 station – System 4000
    • Collate, Stitch Fold Trim up to 120page booklets
    • Duplo Creaser, Perf
    • DigiBinder Perfect Binder
    • Coil, Wire-O Punches
    • 5-hole Drill Press
    • DibiPack Shrinkwrapping System
    • Satori Mailing & Inkjetting System
    • Tabbing, Inserter

    PREPRESS

    • Fully Automated Screen CTP System
    • Nexus automated Worklfow / RIP
    • Oris ColorProof with Epson 7900 & 7800 Proofers
    • Xrite Spectrophotometers
    • MACS, Windows, Eizo Calibrated Monitors
    • Large Format Inkjet machines for posters.

    VEDI and Empowered Health Partnerships, Inc. working together to address veteran health issues through Operation Access

    Healthcare is a major issue for veterans who are returning from combat with a wide range of ailments and often have to wait for the VA to determine if these ailments are “service specific” and then determine the level of disability.  In many cases, the wait for these important designations are long while some of the immediate needs of the veteran and their families are left in limbo.

    Operation Access is the alliance between VEDI and Empowered Health Partnerships (EHP) to identify resource supports to assist veterans and their families during that “limbo” period to help them to meet their immediate needs and to identify alternative services if they do not receive the designations they need to cover their medical costs or equipment purchases.

    “We have found that more veterans have either been denied claims because their ailment is not connected to their service or they have to wait so long that other issues occur and they have no other options,” states Meta J. Mereday, VEDI Founder. “We have also discovered that veteran families are often left out of the loop or need additional equipment that the VA does not cover. So, if the wife of a World War 2 veteran needs a wheelchair to help move her husband around, we want to be able to direct her to an immediate source.”

    Operation Access will be reaching out to the local community to build on its sourcing partnerships and organizational alliances to supplement the resource and supply base and make it easily “accessible” for veterans and their families.

    Is your business healthy?

    The reasons people start a business are as numerous as there are people.

    Some start one for freedom, others money, others to help and still others for a sense of control over their destiny.

    Regardless of the reason you start a business you need customers and/or clients to sustain it.

    To grow a business you need to structure it as a cottage industry or hire employees.

    That said hereis the $1M question – is your buisness healthy?

    How do you define health?

    Do you run your business or does your business run you?

    There are many rules of thumb out there but I will a simple single one that shouldbe considered to know if your business is sustainable!

    If you leave your business for 6 months will it still be there even if you do nothing?

    Bridging the United States and China

    An exclusive BCC Executive Education Program

    When

    Monday, March 12, 2012 through Thursday, March 22, 2012.

    Where

    Shanghai, China.

    Why

    To bridge business and government communities in America and China to foster directly beneficial economic and personal relationships.

    To apply for this exclusive and limited enrollment program, please click here.

     

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