Greater Jackson Business

(I originally wrote this column in early 2009 but wanted to share it again with our GJB readers. This piece contains my last remnants of quasi-Libertarian thought and I wanted to get your opinions on how you think it reads today, over two years later.) By: Jack Criss You really almost have to laugh to [...]

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By Jack Criss GJB Publisher Technology giveth…and technology taketh away. Our communication prowess is fast and furious (though often lacking in grammatical exactness and logical content) and we can, literally, carry the world in our hands. But are we really better off? In gaining such speed and accessibility have we lost the slowness which certainty [...]

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By Jack Criss GJB Publisher My hometown seems to be experiencing an identity crisis. With growth and renewal, such as the city is now going through, comes awkward experimentation and stretches of trial-and-error. It’s almost as if Jackson, as old a city as it is chronologically, is currently going through its puberty phase, still not quite [...]

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Happy New Year to you all. Business everywhere today is in a strange limbo. What economic writer Robert Samuelson recently called the “recession’s legacy” in a recent Newsweek column is actually plain and simple fear: Haunting images of the stock ticker tumbling back in late ‘08 has burned into the brains of many businesspeople leaving what [...]

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By Jack Criss In 2005, I, along with several thousand other readers, bought retired GE CEO Jack Welch’s latest book, “Winning.” Naturally, I hoped to gleam tips from the great business guru and corporate legend on how to “win” in my own business of publishing. I never finished the book, to be honest. It just [...]

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by Jack Criss Publisher, Greater Jackson Business Disclosure here, if you don’t already know: I have a horse in the race of promoting advertising. Yes, Greater Jackson Business (and yours truly) survives by advertising revenue. So naturally I’m going to urge people and businesses to keep spending money on promoting their goods. But, in advocating [...]

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by Jack Criss Publisher, Greater Jackson Business Debate seems to becoming a lost art. By debate, I mean true intellectual give-and-take. You present your facts, I present mine, presumably against a philosophic backdrop of reality and not never-never land, and each party attempts to persuade. Persuade, not browbeat. Such is what I read and hear [...]

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by Jack Criss, GJB Publisher/Executive Editor Is your job an extension of you, your personality, or do you consider work a necessary evil? I know of too many people who, when pressed, would probably answer the latter. In today’s economy you certainly do what you have to do. And, in any job, there are aspects [...]

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I have stated in a previous column that we live in a very different business climate and culture than existed before the economic meltdown of late 2008—I don’t think anyone would argue with that. Just as in hard personal times, we turn to friends and loved ones to support us and help us get through [...]

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I’ll admit I was a skeptic. Yes, I knew the Sweet Potato Queens raised some money. Well, fine. But so do a lot of other people and organizations. And most do it either anonymously or, at least, without running around looking goofy and calling attention to themselves every year on a certain March weekend. You [...]

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