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HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UNVEILS STATEOF-THE-ART PATIENT PAVILION TO TRANSFORM CAMPUS pg. 22

NJ’s tourism industry reaches nearly $45 billion Pg. 34

Industry experts share perspectives on the evolving PR industry Pg. 12

Traits of successful entrepreneurs Pg. 30

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LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Allstate BCB Community Bank Bergen Community College Bergen Engineering/ Branca Properties Boiling Springs Savings Bank Bruinooge & Associates CarePoint Health Comfort Guard Contracting LLC Delta Dental Edison Properties ELEC 825 | Engineers Labor-Management Cooperative Ernst & Young, LLP Eastwick Colleges EZ Ride Forsgate Industrial Partners FORT Group Genova Burns Goya Foods Hackensack University Medical Center Hartz Mountain Industries Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ-NYC IBEW 164 In Thyme Catered Events

J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Inc. JLL Kearny Bank Lakeland Bank Langan Engineering MassMutual New Jersey-NYC McGowan Builders, Inc. Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment MWWPR NAI James E. Hanson, Inc. New York Jets NJ Sharing Network NJM Insurance Group NJSEA North Bergen Liberty Generating Onyx Equities, LLC Personal Touch Experience PSE&G Quest Diagnostics Russo Development Scarinci Hollenbeck TD Bank Suez Water New Jersey Inc. Unique Designz Verizon Wacoal America

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Business Wise Continuing Education & Business Training Legislative Update Community On the Move Lessons in Leadership Tech Talk

FEATURES

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The Evolving PR Industry: Two local PR experts share how they’re “getting the word out” amid a changing media landscape

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On The Cover: Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center Unveils State-of-the-Art Patient Pavilion to Transform Campus

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Becoming Entrepreneurial: Traits of a sucessful entrepreneur

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New Jersey Tourism Industry Soars: The Meadowlands ramps up tourism efforts to attract more visitors

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BUSINESS REPORT “When there’s something great happening in the Meadowlands, we tell the story.”

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he leadership here at the Meadowlands Chamber (MC) has, and will remain, forward-thinking so we can help lead our membership and the region to a prosperous quality of life—by building a sustainable economy through the year 2040 and beyond.

We recently revealed to you the new branding for our organization and its affiliates (such as this magazine) as well as new digital products and a website overhaul aimed at delivering you crisp and pertinent information on demand.

Today, we continue our journey of leadership and excellence by announcing we will soon relocate to new offices at 1099 Wall Street West in Lyndhurst in September of 2019.

This project, dubbed the new MC-HQ, will create the chamber of the future with a facility that hosts: 1) 2) 3) 4)

Meadowlands Chamber Networking Hub The Meadowlands Live! Visitors Center The 2040 Foundation Innovation & Learning Center Meadowlands Media Podcast Studio

It will also feature a Collaboration Lounge & Java Zone, Entrepreneur Ideation Zones, Hatchibator Huddle Rooms and Video Conference Suites.

We have determined that in order to truly represent businesses now and in the future, we must provide resources and services that are unlike anything we have done before. And we believe the possibilities are endless.

The new MC-HQ will bring together our colleges and universities to collaborate with businesses in new ways to strengthen our workforce and create jobs. We will use the technology of our new home to deliver important content via webinars, podcasts and live streaming events. More importantly, we will create a central hub for businesses to network and build relationships—on a daily basis—while taking advantage of technology often only available to enterprise level companies.

Lastly, the mission of the Meadowlands 2040 Foundation, Inc.—an affiliate of the MC—will now have a home to conduct research and gather data to support public policy that will forge a strong economy. The Innovation Learning Center will be pivotal in driving community awareness to the Meadowlands communities about the critical aspects that lead to a strong quality of life here in our Meadowlands.

Please join the journey with us!

P.S. I suggest you visit Meadowlands.org and click on the Media Button for access to some terrific digital content.

Jim Kirkos Follow me on twitter: @JimKirkos To stay informed about more activities from the Meadowlands Chamber please visit www.meadowlands.org.

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BUSINESS WISE

AI Improves Profitability

The result is lower prices and more efficient, customer-friendly experience

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e are living in a world of cameras, sensors and machine learning technologies.

Executives around the world are spending billions to digitize their operations to improve efficiencies, reduce costs and increase profitability.

This new era of AI is also coming to retailing and super markets. Cameras and sensors are keeping an eye on supermarket shelves, appearance, customers and almost every aspect of the food shopping experience.

The market is huge and Walmart has determined that there are about 140 million U.S. shoppers that visit a store in person or online every week. These customers represent an amazing treasure trove of data. Walmart alone generated more than $500 billion in overall sales globally last year. Walmart looks at their stores as artificial intelligence factories where they are deploying cameras and embedded sensors on shelves to check what cameras cannot detect. Other applications can check produce and fruits and detect when for example bruised bananas need to be replaced with fresh ones. Or when more cashiers need to open before lines get too long.

Thousands of cameras suspended from the ceiling combined with sensors on shelves can monitor each store in real time. This form of digitalization allows workers to replenish shelves faster, and deal with other problems in the store immediately.

The digital monitoring improves the overall shopping experience for customers in a variety of ways like spotting spills, damaged products, and even when the supply of shopping carts is getting low.

Obviously, this also allows Walmart to reduce costs and lower prices, which will lead to higher sales.

Walmart’s Sam’s Club is exploring a “Scan and Go” App, which allows shoppers to scan items as they shop and use their phones to pay for the goods

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thus avoiding the checkout line process.

Amazon is also opening cashier-less Amazon Go stores which also have deployed shelf sensors matched to shopper’s smart phones so that the goods are paid for when the customers leave the store without the need for cashiers.

The ultimate beneficiary of the application of AI to supermarkets is the customer who is experiencing lower prices and a more efficient and customer friendly experience. Obviously, and simultaneously, supermarkets are increasing sales, reducing costs and increasing profitability. However, in the long run digitalization of companies operations will reduce employees and the economic consequences associated with it. Hopefully, the increased sales and profitability that corporations will gain from it will lead to the need ¬to open more stores and move more products requiring June/July 2019

employees laid off by digitalization being rehired as a result of it.

Only time will tell.

Robert M. Donnelly is an author, educator and brand builder for businesses and individuals. His consultancy business is called DoctorBusiness.com. His corporate life was spent in executive positions with IBM, Pfizer and EXXON and then as the CEO for several U.S. subsidiaries of foreign multinational firms. Professor Donnelly is on the faculty of Saint Peters University as well as Rushmore University, a global online university. His latest book is Personal Brand Planning for Life, available on Amazon. He also functions as an interim executive. You can contact him at rmdonnelly@aol.com or visit his website at DoctorBusiness.com.

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Insider Threat Mitigation Identify, detect, protect, respond, recover

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ne of the major cybersecurity issues that organizations face is the threat that comes from within. This “Insider Threat” is as common as a threat from an outside intruder, but can be even more impactful and costly. Insider threats are difficult to detect, especially considering that compromising activities can be both intentional and accidental.

Perhaps a file system containing important company information was removed. This could be an accidental act by an individual who did not know better or a malicious act purposely executed by a disgruntled employee wanting to hurt the organization through the loss of corporate data.

In either case, the organization is responsible to put the appropriate controls in place to prevent such a situation, regardless of the insider’s intent. Below are some such controls to prevent a similar scenario: Proactive Controls Information security has three overarching goals: confidentiality, integrity and availability (CIA).

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Within the scope of these high-level goals, IT security specialists have defined best practices to help organizations ensure that their information stays protected.

Incorporating corporate controls to keep data confidential, maintain the integrity of the data and ensure data availability will help organizations prevent—or at the very least be able to recover from—intentional and accidental threats.

• Data sensitivity & classification: Determine the importance and sensitivity levels of data in the organization.

• Principle of least privilege: Ensure people have only the rights, permissions, and privileges absolutely necessary to do their jobs; no more, no less.

• Separation of duties: Ensure that no one person can perform a critical transaction or operation alone.

In the scenario above, it is important to configure data access in such a way

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that data critical to the business cannot be accessed by someone who does not have the need to access the data and would not be able to perform such a destructive act without confirmation from authority.

Threat mitigation The scenario above is fairly simple and straightforward, but is quite common (especially for SMBs, who typically do not establish these strong policies and security guidelines). In today’s threatladen environment, organizations of all sizes must take the appropriate measures to mitigate and respond to the unavoidable security threat, including the insider threat.

Below is a number of industry best practices that will assist you in mitigating and minimizing the impact of an internal threat: • Security policy: A company security policy specifies security guidelines for internal and/or outsourced IT support services, as well as for vendors and suppliers that interface with the organization.

It also establishes company security expectations of W2, temporary and

subcontracted employees.

A well-defined Security Policy would cover such areas as: acceptable use, password construction & protection, email usage, bring your own device (BYOD) guidelines, remote access, and numerous others.

Have this document prepared by a security specialist and approved by the executive team. Require each employee, consultant, and other appropriate parties to read and sign it, acknowledging that they have read and understood their responsibilities.

• Incident response plan: The only thing worse than a cyberattack is not knowing what to do when an attack occurs. An incident response plan provides clear and concise guidelines to be followed once an attack is detected. The purpose of this response plan is to limit potential damage, protect sensitive data, and limit exposure. It also includes procedures to notify the appropriate officials and

to begin the recovery process.

• Insider threat program: It is invaluably important to have an insider threat program because it can be difficult to identify threatening insiders and to detect their harmful activity in time to prevent it. Without proper training, employees may not recognize suspicious behavior, or may not know how to report such activity. A proactive insider threat program will provide the information employees need to identify a likely threat and the means of bringing it to the attention of the company leadership in a formal and professional way.

• End-user awareness training: Unfortunately, the majority of security breaches are the result of a lack of training provided to company employees and business partners. Even a minimal investment in end-user awareness significantly

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improves an organization’s security posture by equipping the participants with the security knowledge necessary to protect the organization’s data.

By addressing these four key areas, an organization can significantly increase security, which will allow them more time to focus on the business. Bring in a strong cybersecurity professional to help you to identify risks and vulnerabilities, protect against intrusion and data loss, detect compromises, respond to an attack before significant damage occurs and recover data that may have been lost or corrupted.

Mike Battistella is the president of Solutions3 LLC, an IT management company focusing on IT service management, cyber security management, network & systems management, critical notification management and technical & soft skill training.

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CONTINUING EDUCATION & BUSINESS TRAINING

Eastwick College grads earn the most among two-year colleges

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ut of 20 New Jersey colleges focusing on two-year degrees, Eastwick College ranks No. 1 in highest-earning graduates.

That’s according to recent figures put together by the U.S. Department of Education in its “College Scorecard” that provides comprehensive data on colleges to help students make the best choice when they are looking at colleges in the area. In this case, Eastwick is compared to the 19 community colleges throughout the state.

In fact, Eastwick also lands at the top of the list for graduation rate, a strong indicator of a college’s value as it demonstrates that students are motivated to complete their path of study and have the proper guidance and support to do so.

This is great news for Eastwick College, which has made a name for itself by providing a unique structure to its curriculum that includes guided schedule paths, guaranteed clinical rotations and externships, and lifetime placement for all graduates.

Most recently, the college announced that in the past four years it has donated a total of $150,000 to help feed the hungry as part of its ongoing focus on community outreach and charity work.

“We’re very proud to see these latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Education’s ‘College Scorecard,’ ” said Thomas M. Eastwick, president of Eastwick College. “It provides direct validation of the value we provide our graduates.”

“Over half of our students are transfers from other colleges—many of them four-year universities—who were unable to find good-paying careers with their previous education. We offer unique, hands-on curriculum for high-demand fields such as occupational therapy assisting, electrician apprenticeship and funeral service. So our graduates are highly valued by employers and these latest figures by the U.S. Department of Education prove that.”

In addition to a hands-on approach to education, Eastwick College also focuses, for each path of study offered, on providing certification options that are some of the best in the industry.

This not only provides an increased number of career opportunities in these fields but also, in many cases, a stronger salary potential for graduates.

The following are just a few of the high-paying fields that Eastwick prepares its students to enter: Medical Sonography: The Department of Labor reports that the employment of diagnostic medical sonographers and ultrasound technicians is expected to increase by 26 percent by 2024, almost four times the national job growth rate. Average metro-area income: $72,120.

Computer Support/IT: Computer/electronic techs are a central component of any business, as technology becomes increasingly important in every aspect of a company’s operations.

Average metro-area income: $60,230.

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Electrical: Electricians install and maintain electrical wiring systems, supplying light, power, air-conditioning and refrigeration for private and commercial buildings. Average metro-area income: $78,880.

Licensed Practical Nursing: Eastwick College stands out from many other nursing schools in the area because it provides clinical rotations for all its LPN students as part of their schedule. After passing their NCLEX-PN exams, graduates are in an excellent position to begin their careers as LPNs. Average metro-area income: $53,850.

Surgical Technology: Surgical technologists work in skilled teams to assist with life-saving procedures. They help set up a sterile operating area and provide optimal patient care before surgery. During surgery, they assist the operating team in all phases of the surgical procedure. Students train in a unique operating room classroom environment. Average metro-area income: $56,540.

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The Evolving PR Industry

Two local PR experts share how they’re “getting the word out” amid a changing media landscape

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he term “public relations” wasn’t actually developed until the early 20th century when a man named Ivy Lee opened what he called a “counseling office” and issued a press release about an accident involving one of his clients, the Pennsylvania Railroad, before the newspaper reporters received other versions of the story. That strategy worked because the railroad’s account of the incident was what readers saw first.

Lee and one of his New York City contemporaries, Edward Bernays, are often credited as being the founders of the public relations industry, with their success having secured the trust of clients—and lucrative contracts-- from major American corporations and well-known individuals and businessmen. And the rest, as they say, is PR history.

But people have been spreading their “news” since ancient societies sent messages on clay tablets or scrolls to communicate to others what they were doing or what was happening in their part of the world.

While the means of passing along information has changed throughout the years and continues to evolve with modern technology, public relations professionals today still incorporate the basic fundamentals of getting the word out, namely to inform, to persuade, and to capture the public’s attention with their messages.

Caryl Bixon Gordon, President, Caryl Communications, Inc., in Paramus, opened her doors in 1980. Her clients are involved in the real estate industry, including office, industrial, retail, residential and multi-family housing. She also represents providers that service the real estate industry such as architects, construction companies and graphic designers.

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years. Axiom specializes in real estate marketing and public affairs, representing developers, architects and financiers, travel and tourism, and healthcare organizations.

Despite having varied target audiences, their goal is to build credibility and awareness for their clients through specific markets and a broader public outreach. Gordon and Simoncini answered some questions for us about how the public relations industry has evolved.

Ron Simoncini, President Axiom Communications

Q: The journalism/media landscape has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. Has it affected your business strategy? If so, how have you faced the challenge?

Gordon: Working with media has always been a core competency for Caryl Communications, and we have excellent writers, long term, who understand media. Today’s landscape of promotional opportunities is a response to the multi-generational workplace that exists across

Caryl Bixon Gordon, President Caryl Communications, Inc.

industries. Individuals have their “favorite” way to learn, read and message from print and online media and publications; broadcast TV and radio; social media, podcasts, newsletters and trusted sources-diverse outlets that keep on growing.

But don’t fool yourself. The print world is still alive and well, and serves in many ways as a partner for online news. In both cases, it is critical to work with talented writers who provide clear and compelling content. Media appreciate it, and we are fortunate to have a variety of media outlets that trust our work.

Simoncini: The recession of 2001 was the beginning of the decline in conventional media, coinciding with the rapid growth in the relevance of online marketing platforms. We had been developing websites since 1997 and prepared for the loss of and number of print publications and the number of reporting positions at those papers.

However, conventional media relations is still relevant, but must be balanced with programming aimed at online publications and bloggers.

We also provide online presence and marketing, finding other creative ways to get our messaging out to appropriate audiences through social media channels and the search engine marketing and search engine optimization.

Q: In this business, the client is king. How have your clients responded and reacted to the ever-changing media world? Are you focusing more on social media to get your news out there?

Simoncini: At this point, every client has an online presence. Because most of our clients have been with us for a decade or longer, we have cultivated their online strategy so that there is an intended blend of presence throughout the various platforms. Our job is to connect their marketing programming to their business objectives, and once we make the case in that context, they are eager to explore new opportunities. We are very insistent on film for everyone at this point—some are quick to embrace it and others have their doubts about its relevance.

While we use social media to support news events or to rebroadcast news that has appeared elsewhere, it is not the core delivery mechanism for most clients—largely because they can’t convene a reliable, large audience to make an impact. Audience development is expensive and uncer-

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tain, so social media is not an appropriate or effective marketing vehicle for many clients. You can eat up a lot of budget on creating content and branding platforms on Facebook only to find that you end up talking to 30 people. There is no point in wrestling with social media when search engine marketing does a better job for less money; but in other businesses, a clever approach to audience development through social media can be very rewarding. Our programs usually start with a modest pilot program and if we see results, we expand.

Gordon: Social media is a strong component of our work and it has earned respect in the industry. Most of our social is based on the results we achieve in the media—articles and photos. We use social as well in campaign planning, particularly for events. Our pitching is also diverse—but there is nothing better than personal contacts that know our work and appreciate our tenacity and responsiveness. Across all types of media, if the news is credible, results and reporters follow.

Q: What are you doing to pitch newsworthy stories?

Simoncini: We are fortunate to have substantial clients who do significant things. We tell their stories well and we work with journalists as colleagues. That is a good recipe.

Q: What else can you say about the state of the public relations

business in today’s media-driven world?

Gordon: Public relations and advertising overlap in today’s promotional world, and everything depends on the target audience.

Paid and sponsored content, for example, enable direct messaging in article form as well as earned media. And since viewers obtain their news and send their messages in so many ways, public relations today is akin to “the kid in the candy store.” We have many outlets to work with, and we choose targets and messaging in order to expand and differentiate our clients’ persona.

Simoncini: Events work because they can be covered in the shrinking news hole.

Features on a single client or circumstance are very rare—publications cannot afford to invest in the man-hours it takes to develop those stories. Similarly, the trend stories of the old days, where stories were deeply examined with multiple sources, are now handled in advertorial sections for the most part—pay to play. There is a place for that, no matter how much clients resent it.

But the real action is in public affairs and crisis management—when large interests are banging into each other or a controversy has come to its inflection point or there is a scandal afoot. THEN you get publications investing in reporting, and that is also where you can make a big difference for clients with your vocabulary and your persuasive abilities.

Angela Daidone is a freelance writer in Bergen County. meadowlandsmedia.com

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LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

Will Online Bidding Soon Be Available for New Jersey Public Works Construction Projects?

Electronic Bidding Construction Act Under the Electronic Bidding Construction Act (Assembly Bill No. 1308), the term “electronic procurement” is defined as “the use of computer technology and the Internet for the advertising and submission of public bids, providing notice of revisions or addenda to advertisements or bid documents, the receipt of proposals and quotations, and related practices to assist in determining the lowest responsible bidder who is most advantageous, price and other factors considered, as appropriate, for the procurement of public works construction.”

The proposed legislation requires the State Treasurer to promulgate regulations to effectuate the electronic procurement of public works. The regulations must set forth each of the steps the State Treasurer deems appropriate to be taken by each public contracting unit when a public works project project’s value exceeds $5,000,000.

The regulations must also create a procedure to be followed by a public contracting unit for the awarding of a contract for the administration of the electronic procurement process, and all aspects of electronic procurement.

Specifically, the Electronic Bidding Construction Act provides that the regulations must mandate that electronic procurement processes meet the following requirements: • Five years of use by a public contracting unit to secure electronic bids; • Allow public contracting units to advertise bids and distribute bidding documents including plans and specifications; • Be a closed loop system that allows contractors, vendors, and bidders, to receive bid solicitations and documentation, as well as submit bids electronically; • Provide a digital lockbox that ensures bid information cannot be accessed by a third party before the bid deadline, including an electronic bidding servicer or the State; • Allow bids to be encrypted upon submission and when in the digital lockbox;

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echnology has made it easier to conduct a wide range of transactions. It could soon be used to modernize the bidding process for public works construction projects in New Jersey.

The Assembly State and Local Government Committee recently advanced the Electronic Bidding Construction Act, which would require most public contracting units that contract for public works construction projects to use electronic procurement technologies, also known as online bidding, when a project’s value exceeds five million dollars. The State and certain other units will be required to use online bidding for public works project that are required to be bid. The State Senate already approved a companion bill.

The adoption of such legislation would be a significant change to how most public entities have conducted bidding for public works projects. As such, any approved legislation should be reviewed carefully in order to ensure compliance with the statute and any governing regulations.

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• Use digital signature technology and provide for identity verification; • Allow for electronic bid validation; • Allow bids to be edited or withdrawn by the vendor or bidder at any point up to the published bid deadline; • Allow addenda to be issued electronically with addenda automatically applied to the online bid form; • Provide capabilities to create and edit templates of bid forms; • Provide the means for the State to require data types, including but not limited to numeric prices; • Calculate extensions for contractors, bidders or vendors based on price and quality when applicable; • Alert contractors, vendors, and bidders of missing required data; • Provide email notification to contractors, vendors, and bidders of issuance of bid advertisement and addenda; • Provide commodity codes to allow for targeted notifications to contractors, vendors, and bidders; • Provide system implementation services and training to public contracting units at no cost; and

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• Offer scheduled training webinars for contractors, vendors, and bidders at no cost.

The regulations promulgated by the State Treasurer must also include practices that convert the current statutory, regulatory, and policy procedures related to sealed bidding to an electronic procurement environment; authorize public contracting units to accept commercial standards for electronic forms of bid security; and establish minimum standards that shall be met by systems and services that provide and administer electronic procurement processes.

The regulations adopted pursuant to the Electronic Bidding Construction Act must also require that a contractor or vendor seeking a contract for public works under the bill be classified with the Division of Property Management and Construction in the Department of the Treasury, or be prequalified by the Department of Transportation, New Jersey Transit, or the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, prior to submitting a bid.

For more information about the legislation or the legal issues involved, we encourage you to contact a member of Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Government Law Group.

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COMMUNITY

Arts Access Brings the Community in to bergenPAC

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any people would love to take in a live performance at bergenPAC but aren’t able to because of economic hardship. In keeping with the theater’s nonprofit mission of making the arts accessible to everyone in the community, one of bergenPAC’s original founders and former Chairman Edmondo Schwartz created the vision for the Arts Access program in 2015.

The theater partners with local organizations that serve socially and economically disadvantaged residents to give away up to 200 tickets to every bergenPAC show. The tickets are given to the organizations to distribute, rather than individuals contacting bergenPAC. It’s a simple and effective way to make the arts easily accessible to the entire community The participating groups range from senior citizen clubs and

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nursing homes to youth mentoring programs to family social service agencies. With bergenPAC’s diverse show lineup, there’s something for every type of audience to enjoy.

Over 25,000 tickets have been given out since the program started. It has shown growth each year, with 12,000 distributed just last year.

There is still room for expansion, so community organizations interested in partnering with bergenPAC can contact Helene at 201-816-8160, ext. 18 or artsaccess@bergenpac.org. Or they can visit www.bergenpac.org/events-tickets/arts-access for more information and to download an application.

This program is made possible through the generous support of sponsors like The Kaplan Foundation and PSE&G Foundation.

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Supporting Center for Hope & Safety

The Meadowlands Chamber’s Professional Women’s Initiative collects items for victims of domestic violence

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he Meadowlands Chamber’s Chamber’s Professional Women’s Initiative (PWI) organized a donation drive for Center for Hope and Safety at its May Monthly Networking Meeting, with members donating diapers & wipes, full sized toiletries, makeup, brushes, combs, hair ties, hair accessories and women’s summer pajamas to help the nonprofit organization serve its mission of providing for victims of domestic violence in Bergen County.

Donations from members included a large box of toothbrushes and toothpaste from Delta Dental, 80 mascara’s from ServPro and large boxes of diapers from Altigro.

The Chamber’s Professional Women’s Initiative (PWI) was formed to help steer annual programming geared toward enhance the working environment of women. The group also committed itself to philanthropic efforts that align with this mission. In May we celebrate Mother’s Day and with that in mind the PWI requested donation items from the membership to benefit Center for Hope and Safety.

About Center for Hope and Safety Center for Hope and Safety, formerly Shelter Our Sisters, has been

providing services to Bergen County’s domestic violence victims since 1976.

Last year they provided services to over 1300 victims and their children and answered over 4,200 hotline calls from Bergen County residents. Their legal program provides legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence (even if they have not been in their Safe House) in family law and immigration matters. Their free services range from advice and counsel to representation in court for hearings.

You can call us anytime if you or someone you know needs help. Our hotline is always available, ready for your call, 24 hours a day. Call us at (201) 944-9600. More information is available at: www.hopeandsafetynj.org

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Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center Unveils State-of-the-Art Patient Pavilion to Transform Campus $714 million investment will create modern surgical suites and private rooms

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ackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center, the flagship hospital of New Jersey’s most comprehensive and integrated health network, is transforming its campus with the construction of a new, state-of-the-art patient pavilion along Second Street in Hackensack.

With a gross square footage of 530,000 square feet (438,000 usable sq. ft.), the building will feature 9 floors of cutting-edge technology and a superior design to provide patients and families with world-class acute care, while enhancing comfort and privacy.

“This large-scale, innovative project will truly transform the Hackensack University Medical Center campus, preparing us to effectively meet the growing needs of our patients and the communities we serve,” said Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health. “As Bergen County’s first hospital and the largest provider of inpatient and outpatient services in the state, Hackensack University Medical Center has always been setting the standard for excellence in healthcare. This is a major investment to elevate our world-class healthcare services and modernize our facilities to ensure we are providing patients the first-class, cutting-edge care they deserve.”

More details about the project Hackensack University Medical Center is prioritizing the enhancement of the patient experience and will privatize and modernize all patient rooms over the next 10 years. The new pavilion, 22

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dedicated to improving patient care, is the first step in that process and will feature 24 new operating rooms, new and improved Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds, as well as three floors of private patient rooms.

In addition, the building will include: • New Second Street entrance/visitor lobby • A visitor center • A new central sterile processing department • 24 operating rooms including an intraoperative MRI • 50 ICU beds • Shell space for an additional 25 ICUs • 100 medical-surgical beds • 50 bed Orthopedic Institute Better serving patients & families “This innovative project reflects our network’s deep commitment to better serving the needs of patients and families,” said Gordon N. Litwin, Esq., chair, Hackensack Meridian Health Board of Trustees. “This new pavilion will provide an enhanced patient experience, while preserving the privacy, respect and dignity our patients and families deserve. Our patients are at the heart of the work we do, and we will continue to pursue groundbreaking initiatives that advance the network’s world-class, patient- and family-centered care well into the future.”

Hackensack University Medical Center is the primary teach-

ing site for the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine at Seton Hall University. Hackensack University Medical Center’s renovation, expansion and modernization plans will ensure its campus will be able to accommodate the growing needs of the region and continue operating at the highest standards. The new pavilion, which spans Second Street, will become the largest building on campus.

Elevating standards in healthcare “This is a significant moment for Hackensack University Medical Center. With our innovative, new pavilion, we are elevating the standard of healthcare not only in New Jersey, but across the country,” said Ihor Sawczuk, M.D., regional president, northern market, Hackensack Meridian Health. “Hackensack University Medical Center will celebrates its 130th anniversary this year, and I am confident that with these transformational changes, we will be well-positioned to successfully serve this community and the region for another 130 years.”

Meeting the needs of the region “This project reflects Hackensack University Medical Center’s ongoing commitment to successfully meet the needs of the entire region to provide superior

highly complex, tertiary and quaternary care,” said Mark D. Sparta, FACHE, president and chief hospital executive of Hackensack University Medical Center and executive vice president, population health, Hackensack Meridian Health.

“As the delivery of healthcare has advanced and the complexity of surgery has changed, there is a critical need for more physical space to effectively deliver high-quality care. This new pavilion will ensure Hackensack University Medical Center remains on the forefront of patient care with cutting-edge operating rooms and modern patient accommodations.”

Behind the project RSC Architects of Hackensack is the lead architect partnered with EYP Architects of Houston, Texas. The RSC/EYP team provides extensive expertise in the design of healthcare facilities, including projects with Hackensack University Medical Center and Hackensack Meridian Health, supplemented by an intimate knowledge of the local market. The team was selected through a competitive bidding process. During the design process, the team collaborated with physicians, administrators and team members to ensure optimal workflow was incorporated into the final design.

More about Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack University Medical Center is the largest employer in Bergen County with more than 8,000 employees. It will continue to maintain 781 beds even after this project is completed.

Construction on the project is expected to begin this spring with 2022 projected as the opening. A surface lot near campus will be used to address parking accommodations. Efforts to relocate utilities and infrastructure in the Second Street courtyard will begin immediately.

About Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization that is the largest, most comprehensive and truly integrated health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care.

The network’s notable distinctions include having four hospitals among the top 10 in New Jersey by U.S. News and World Report. Other honors include consistently achieving Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and being named to Becker’s Healthcare’s “150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare/2018” list.

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ON THE MOVE

Investors Bank Appoints Michael MacIntyre as Director of Business & Government Banking Units

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nvestors Bank has appointed Michael MacIntyre as the Director of its Business and Government Banking units. MacIntyre, who brings a diverse range of domestic and international banking expertise, will report to Investors Bank’s Chief Retail Banking Officer William Brown. One of. MacIntyre’s key responsibilities will be building out the company’s business banking franchise and rapidly evolving those operations with the introduction of digital, financial services technologies.

MacIntyre’s priorities include recruiting a team of business bankers who will serve companies located across the bank’s footprint. Also, he is developing a leadership team to assist with managing the bank’s much larger and more extensive business banking unit.

In announcing MacIntyre’s appointment, Investors Bank Chairman and CEO Kevin Cummings said, “We welcome Michael as the head of our business banking team. He is a transformative force who will develop and implement business unusual strategies that can propel our business banking unit to a new level of performance and growth. His major objective is to integrate our strong brand and excellent relationship building capabilities with advanced financial technology solutions to form a significant business banking organization.”

MacIntyre is also taking on oversight of the Investors Bank Advisory Board. The board includes owners of companies, corporate executives, attorneys, accountants, and professionals who are business influencers. These business leaders, who have a presence in their communities and industry sectors, serve as advocates for Investors Bank by helping to create alliances with potential commercial banking clients.

In discussing his appointment, MacIntyre said, “I think of myself as a smart community banker, and I’m very excited to be joining Investors Bank. Kevin encourages each person who joins the bank to come in with a blank slate. I fully believe that all of the things that I consider and propose for the bank will reflect that blank-slate approach, and there will be ample opportunity here for me to make changes that better the organization.”

MacIntyre started his career at Chase Manhattan Bank (now Chase Bank) in 1994 as a member of its Management Training Program. In 1998, he joined the EAB unit of ABN Amro Holding NV and held various positions within the company’s corporate banking business.

Prior to joining Investors, MacIntyre was the United States Head of Business Banking at HSBC. During an 18-year career, he held a wide range of management positions in HSBC’s retail and commercial banks in the United States and abroad.

He launched an entirely new banking platform, hiring over 100 bankers across the U.S. He also completed innovative and strategic programs while leading the business banking unit, in-

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cluding a project that involved implementing a series of financial technology solutions. These steps proved to be successful despite being considered unusual for the banking industry, according to MacIntyre.

MacIntyre holds a B.A. degree from Saint Francis College in Brooklyn. He is also a graduate of Consumer Bankers Association’s (CBA) Graduate School of Retail Bank Management at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He earned an Executive MBA by completing an international academic fellowship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is also involved with the banking industry and formerly served on the CBA’s Small Business Banking Committee.

In addition, he participates with community-based organizations. For example, Investors Bank’s late Director Brendan Dugan, who was the President of St. Francis College and spent much of his career in banking, invited MacIntyre to serve on the school’s Board of Trustees. He continues today in that role. He also assists the college as an adjunct professor in its Management and Information Technology departments. His lectures focus on the intersection of financial services and business operations.

ON THE MOVE

Scarinci Hollenbeck Names Raymond Brown Chair of Crisis & Risk Management Group

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carinci Hollenbeck is pleased to announce that Partner Raymond M. Brown has been named Chair of the firm’s Crisis & Risk Management Practice Group. Mr. Brown, who joined the firm in March 2019, has developed a practice spanning decades in the representation of clients in matters of criminal defense, complex commercial litigation, and corporate compliance. He also has significant experience in international human rights issues and has established himself as a leading figure in the regulation and enforcement of business requirements for human rights compliance. Additionally, Mr. Brown focuses extensively on high-profile crisis cases for individuals and business entities, in both federal and state courts.

“I am thrilled by the opportunity to lead the firm’s Crisis & Risk Management Practice Group,” remarked Raymond M. Brown. “This is an area of law for which I have great passion, and I look forward to working with the firm’s clients.”

About Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Crisis & Risk Management Group Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Crisis & Risk Management Practice Group has extensive experience in the field of risk management. The firm provides clients with innovative, real-time solutions for a rapidly evolving crisis or emergency. It also assesses potential threats and finds the best ways to avoid or mitigate those threats.

Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, the group’s attorneys assist entities and individuals with all aspects of emergency response, including crisis assessment, development and implementation of crisis response plans and internal policies and procedures, evacuation plans, and more. You can learn about the range of services offered by the firm’s Crisis & Risk Management Practice Group here.

“Strong leadership is a key principle of Scarinci Hollenbeck’s firm culture,” stated Russell Ascher, Executive Director of Scarinci Hollenbeck. “Considering this, Ray Brown is an excellent choice to lead the firm’s Crisis & Risk Management Practice Group. I feel that Ray’s skills and experience will not only benefit the firm’s clients, but also the attorneys he will lead.” You can learn more about Raymond M. Brown here.

Raymond M. Brown joined Scarinci Hollenbeck with Counsel Gregg H. Hilzer, who will continue to work with Mr. Brown as a member of the firm’s Crisis & Risk Management practice group. Mr. Hilzer has worked with Mr. Brown for over a decade, concentrating his practice on criminal defense, internal investigations, corporate compliance, and complex commercial litigation. You can learn more about Gregg H. Hilzer here.

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Delta Dental Names Barry Petruzzi New VP of Underwriting & Actuarial Services

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elta Dental of New Jersey (DDNJ) and Delta Dental of Connecticut (DDCT) have named Barry Petruzzi as vice president of underwriting and actuarial services.

Barry joins DDNJ and DDCT from Prudential Financial, where he was vice president and chief actuary of its Actuarial Centers of Excellence. In his new role, he will be responsible for all underwriting and actuarial services, as well as directing the rating of new and existing group contracts and individual policies.

“Barry’s extensive experience in the underwriting and actuarial space, combined with his strong leadership and collaborative skills, strengthens our team and organization,” said James Suleski, Senior Vice President and CFO of Delta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut. “He will provide the necessary leadership and support of our overall corporate strategic objectives.”

About Barry Petruzzi Barry Petruzzi, FSA, MAAA brings 25 years of experience in the Group Life/Disability marketplace to Delta Dental of New Jersey and Delta Dental of Connecticut, having held senior leadership positions in underwriting and actuarial services at Prudential Financial, The Hartford, and Guardian Life Insurance Company of America over the course of his career.

Barry is active within the actuarial industry and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and a frequent speaker at meetings hosted by the Society of Actuaries and Group Underwriters Association of America (GUAA). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Penn State University.

About Delta Dental Delta Dental of New Jersey, Inc. is New Jersey’s leading dental benefits company, providing or administering coverage to more than 1.7 million people through contracts with groups in New Jersey and Connecticut. In Connecticut, Delta Dental of Connecticut, Inc. is a licensed insurer that writes dental coverage on an insured basis, and Delta Dental of New Jersey administers self-funded dental benefit programs. For more information, visit www.deltadentalnj.com.

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Becoming Entrepreneurial Traits of a sucessful entrepreneur

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ntrepreneurs are the very lifeblood of our economy, as they innovate and advance new ideas. From simple online studios who seek to create entertainment content to large scale tech companies who seek to make space travel plausible for everyday people, any idea has the potential to spring forth into a resounding success or crash and burn in miserable failure when thrust into the meritocracy.

Becoming an entrepreneur isn’t easy, although anyone could hypothetically do it. It all depends on your idea—and how you work through the world around you to bring it into reality. Below are six simple categories which all the most important requisites of becoming a successful entrepreneur may be boiled down into.

1) Driven & Dedicated First and debatably foremost, entrepreneurs must be driven.

It’s a complex world: there’s a lot of people and problems who are going to get in your way and try to make you jump through hoops, putting you down either so they won’t have to deal with you or simply not picking you up because they don’t care.

To be an entrepreneur you need oceans of motivation, coupled with the spark of passion to pursue your goals. You cannot be disingenuous or halfhearted in your efforts or you will stagnate and eventually collapse. The fierce drive of an entrepreneur must come from a place of genuine passion to see your contribution impact the world in a major way. And it’s got to be able to 30

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sweep up anyone who sees it along for the ride.

2) Strong Work Ethic A strong work ethic is paramount to being an entrepreneur. Your company is, at its core, you. You aren’t going to start out with employees you can delegate tasks to, obviously. You may not even start out with any money. Though the drive and dedication an entrepreneur are extremely important, you can’t allow yourself to be caught up in the rush of passion and blaze past important steps. A strong work ethic will help you take that same drive and focus it, spending long hours at a desk making phone calls and sending emails, sorting files, writing reports, formatting presentations, preparing pitches, building your credit, managing funds and doing every bit of the labor of organizing all the tedious painful steps to full completion.

It can be hard to keep the passion as you put yourself through the grind but you always have to remember what it’s all for. When you just feel like giving up you have to be able to call up your drive, imagine the future and fall back onto your work ethic to keep on trucking until you’re ready for the next step— because deep down you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you need to.

3) Calculated Risk-Taker The process of creating a business from scratch, or even if it’s

not purely from scratch and you do have some basis, is so horrifically filled to the brim with risks that it would be fair to say that there’s nothing but risk. Anything you do, no matter how small, always has the chance to fail. This often comes in terms of monetary risk, as you must be able to understand when to invest in a new approach, spend your company’s money appropriately and know when to take a leap of faith. If you play it too safe all the time and only spend money or effort on things that you know for certain will succeed, then you’ll stagnate and be overtaken by a competitor. The only way to expand your business and establish your worth is to know when to take risks. Don’t just take blind leaps of faith though either. You must be able to analyze the situation and assess the potential reward against the chance of failure, to see if it’s worth the risk.

But if it is, take it.

to aspire to and even one up. Of course, every entrepreneur has to be in competition with one another, which drives a constant upwards spiral of experimentation, features and overall quality of the product. To make it in whatever scene you want to take part in you have to be not only willing but eager to step up to the big guys, no matter how much persistence it’ll take you.

4) Competitive Competition drives progress. This is a fact of human psychology, and indeed the basis of a meritocratic capitalist economy. A good entrepreneur should be able to look at the others who exist in their field and see someone who does something better than they do, and instead of taking it as discouragement take it as a challenge to one up that person.

A competitive nature can renew drive, as well as providing a set bar for you

5) Resourceful with strong ‘people skills’ To be an entrepreneur you’ll need to deal with a lot of people and a lot of systems.

From disgruntled employees to banks you’re asking for loans from to customers who have complaints about what they’re seeing. You’re going to need an awful lot of people skills to deal with all this, and a pretty good understanding of whatever system you’re navigating.

Entrepreneurs have to be cunning, capable of resolving situations in ways that leave the people satisfied. Sometimes things are going to be a little more complicated, and you need to tell a little white lie or half-truth to get what you need to sort it all out. This isn’t to say you’re going to have to match up with the stereotype of a lying corrupt corporate manager by any means. Honesty and being up front are as important as anything. You have an image to keep if you want to maintain good public and professional relations and lying is not a

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In the event of a lull in production or a disaster of some kind, however, you will need to keep a lot of people with a lot of potentially conflicting interests happy. This is the sort of thing people hire marketing teams and public relations people for. It’s a tricky line to tow between being upfront and transparent while still putting everything in a way that inspires trust in people. A truly cunning entrepreneur should be able to balance on that line like Philippe Petit.

6) The Ability to Improvise & Adapt Last but most definitively not least is the ability to improvise. Not just improvise, but improvise well. Running a business is a very precise thing, but it has a lot of changing variables, and the more it expands the more stuff happens that may be beyond your radar of control, or even noticing sometimes. A good entrepreneur has to be creative, able to think up new strategies on the fly which keep the company running and productive. This is why you want to write your business plan with some room for flexibility and changing, as well as leaving it open to rewrites if any new important information reveals itself.

To be an entrepreneur is to shoulder an extremely heavy burden and carry it down a long, winding, treacherous path which you may not even get to see before you start heading down it. This is something that anyone could potentially do. You just have to hold yourself to the right set of virtues, and be smart about it.

Move down the path with precision and elegance and if you happen to stumble, try and turn it into a recovery with a nice bit of extra flair. That way anyone who might be happening to watch forgets quickly about how you almost fell and ends up with the lasting sense of being impressed at your recovery. If you ask them to join you and help carry the burden, then maybe they will. This sort of thing goes on long enough and the burden won’t seem quite so heavy at all.

Aidan McHugh is an art student at the Bergen County Technical High School in Teterboro. He serves as an editorial & art intern for Meadowlands Media. meadowlandsmedia.com

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LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP

Communicating an Apology: 101 The dos and don’ts of saying sorry in business

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pologies are a funny thing. Certain apologies are accepted by some—and then not by others.

For leaders and managers of all stripes, knowing when and how to communicate a prompt and sincere apology is one of the keys to earning the respect of those around you.

Think about it. In business, we all have so much on our plate. There are countless meetings where we may need to present important information. There are dozens if not hundreds of e-mails that go out every day to update key stakeholders on specific projects and initiatives, not to mention juggling all of this while still coaching, mentoring and leading your team.

With this great volume of activity, there is bound to be a mistake made at some point. It is unavoidable. However, as a leader, what we do when we make a mistake is what will ultimately determine how we are received and perceived by others.

With that said, consider some of the dos and don’ts when it comes to apologizing: • Apologize quickly. If it takes longer than 24 hours—especially in a high-profile or very public situation— people become suspect. When you do apologize, do it willingly in a proactive fashion, instead of waiting to have your back against the wall and after testing the public reaction to the situation.

• When apologizing, give specifics.

What exactly are you apologizing for?

Lawyers often tell their clients to be vague and general when apologizing.

And if there is more than one thing to apologize for, they recommend apologizing for the least embarrassing mistake. Yet, communication experts know that apologies must be specif-

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ic to be accepted. When using vague generalities in an apology, most audiences don’t buy it because they are not convinced you are really acknowledging what exactly you did wrong.

• When apologizing, talk directly about what you are going to do to fix the situation, if possible. Just saying you are going to “fix it” isn’t enough.

How are you going to fix it? How are you going to measure whether the same mistake is made again? It is easy to say, “I’m sorry. This isn’t going to happen again.” It is a lot harder to say, “I take responsibility and apologize for X and am going to do XYZ to make sure it never happens again.”

• Apologize face-to-face. Do not rely on e-mail or an organization-wide memo sent to employees to express your apology. That is the easy way out and sends the message that you are afraid to confront the situation head on. We all make mistakes, so when you do, apologize in person, face-to-face, and be willing and open to receive feedback and answer any questions from those in your audience. Doing so sends the message that you truly care about how your mistake impacted them and that you are interested in hearing their perspective.

• Apologies must pass the credibility test. Sometimes, no matter how sincere you can be when apologizing, if your offense or mistake is so egregious, it is going to fall on deaf

ears. That is not to say that you can’t rebound from such a situation, however, it means you will have to go the extra mile in terms of your apology as well as the actions you take after you apologize to show that you are willing to put in the time and effort to make things right.

• Move on. In most situations, if you apologize keeping the above tips and tools in mind, your apology will be accepted and everyone can move on with the work at hand. However, if you feel you have done everything in your power to truly apologize and for reasons outside your control your apology is not accepted, you need to let it go and move on. Overthinking or carrying the extra weight of the unaccepted apology could cause you to lose focus, thereby increasing the potential of future mistakes, and nothing good will come of that.

Steve Adubato Ph.D., is the author of numerous books including his latest, “You Are the Brand”, and his upcoming book, “Lessons in Leadership”. He is also an Emmy Award-winning anchor on Thirteen/ WNET (PBS) and NJTV (PBS) who regularly appears on CNN, FOX News and NBC’s Today Show. Steve also provides executive leadership coaching and seminars for a variety of corporations and organizations both regionally and nationally.

To read more Lessons in Leadership visit www.Stand-Deliver.com. Follow Steve on Twitter @SteveAdubato and Facebook @SteveAdubatoPhD.

New Jersey Tourism Industry Soars The Meadowlands ramps up tourism efforts to attract more visitors

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overnor Phil Murphy and Secretary of State Tahesha Way paid a visit to the New Jersey Tourism Industry Association (NJTIA) to keynote the 2019 National Tourism Week Awards Breakfast & Advocacy Day, announcing that in 2018, visitation to New Jersey rose to nearly 111 million people. This represents an increase of 7.4 percent from 2017.

Due to this record-breaking tourism, total spending by visitors to the state reached $44.7 billion, which generated $5 billion in state and local taxes in 2018.

Governor Murphy also discussed a new focus on international travelers, the American Dream project, and Atlantic City’s rebound.

State officials are aiming to draw 150 million visitors by 2023.

“The results released today make clear that New Jersey’s natural landscape, picturesque cities and towns, and abundant shoreline are in a class of their own, and attracting more visitors than ever,” said Governor Murphy. “In the years to come and as this critical industry continues to grow, I look forward to joining families from around the world in enjoying what New Jersey has to offer, supporting the businesses and communities that make our state special.”

Report: The Economic Impact of Tourism in New Jersey According to The Economic Impact of Tourism in New Jersey Report released at the conference by the Department of State’s Division of Travel and Tourism, visitor spending supported 333,860 jobs in New Jersey. When combined with indirect and induced jobs,

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tourism sustained more than 531,000 jobs, making tourism the 7th largest employer in New Jersey. In fact, nearly 10 percent of New Jersey’s jobs are supported by tourism.

The report also found that 2018 marked the ninth straight year that visitor spending increased, growing more than 30 percent since 2009.

“From ski recreation to sandy beaches, New Jersey truly has a destination for any discerning traveler,” said Secretary of State Tahesha Way, who oversees the Division of Travel and Tourism. “Our tourism industry continues to grow, benefitting businesses, employees, and visitors, and the result is a vibrant industry that generates billions for our economy and our state.”

Other highlights of the annual tourism report include: • 2017 visitation numbers were even better than reported, revised from 100.9 million visitors to 103.2 million.

• Food and beverage and lodging garnered the largest share of visitor spending.

• Visitor spending surged in Atlantic County.

• Non-shore counties continued to diversify our tourism spending streams, generating 52 percent of visitor spending.

“The New Jersey Tourism Industry Association shares Governor Murphy and Secretary Way’s enthusiasm in recognizing that the tourism industry in New Jersey is essential to our economy and our way of life,” said NJTIA President Adam Perle said. “Every

day, tourism provides jobs, generates taxes, and spurs economic development.

Spanning from the mountains to the shore, farms to cities; our state has many authentic experiences to offer visitors. The New Jersey Tourism Industry Association is proud to collaborate with the Office of the Governor, the Department of State, and the Division of Travel and Tourism on our collective efforts. “ The full report can be found at: https://www.visitnj.org/sites/default/ files/2018-nj-economic-impact.pdf Hospitourism in the Meadowlands Hospitourism—including hotels, retail, attractions, meeting spaces, recreation, sports and entertainment facilities—is a revenue-generating, job-creating, community-supporting and reputation-building industry with a longstanding legacy here in the Meadowlands. It is a growing industry statewide increasing about three percent annually, but it is particularly thriving here in the Meadowlands—more than double the growth rate of the state overall.

Tourism has an effect on everyone in the Meadowlands: the government, businesses and residents alike. Therefore, the tourism and hospitality industry is certainly one to keep an eye on for anyone living in, working in, conducting business in or

thinking about doing any of the above in the scenic and dynamic Meadowlands region.

By the numbers* • Approximately $745 million is generated by the hospitourism region in the Meadowlands each year, with the number of visitors increasing annually by 8%.

• There are over 50 hotels and over 10,000 hotels rooms in the region.

• The Meadowlands Exposition Center has 61,000 sq. ft. of convention space and can accommodate up to 5,000 people for a larger conference, ceremony or banquet.

• Visitors drawn to the Meadowlands’ venues, attractions, hotels and hospitality businesses spend $456 million, support 10,700 jobs and pay $233 million annually in taxes to support state operations.

• Retail and hospitality combined as one industry is the second largest provider of jobs in the Meadowlands, with over 6,000 organizations and over 55,000 jobs.

• Visitor spending supports $466 million in wages for local workers who live locally, with about $158 million of these wages going right back into the local economy supporting real estate, scientific/technical services and healthcare industries.

• Job gains in the tourism industry average about 5%, outpacing the national average of approximately 2%. *data comes from Regional Impact of Tourism Report by Rockport Analytics, ZoomProspector, The United States Department of Labor, Meadowlands Regional Chamber, Meadowlands Liberty Convention & Visitors Bureau Now Announcing: Mdest19 (Meadowlands Tourism Conference) on July 30 Meadowlands Live! | Convention & Visitors Bureau (MLCVB)—a longtime member of NJTIA and the destination marketing organization charged by the State of New Jersey with promoting tourism in the Meadowlands—will present its annual tourism conference on Tuesday, July 30 at Redd’s Restaurant & Bar in Carlstadt.

The discussion will focus on how the region can strategically enhance, market and grow its “Eat, Play, Shop” hospitourism assets.

More information about this event can be found at meadowlands.org About Meadowlands Live! | Convention & Visitors Bureau The MLCVB was founded in 2004 and is supported by a state grant from the NJ Division of Travel & Tourism. It is the destination marketing organization charged with boosting the tourism and hospitality industry (which they’ve combined to be ‘hospitourism’) and bringing in visitors to the many tourism assets the Meadowlands has to offer.

“The Meadowlands originally put itself on the map with landmark events in sports and music entertainment. Our strategic branding is aimed at paying tribute to and building on this legacy,” says MLCVB Vice President Judith Ross. “We feel that the ‘LIVE’ element fittingly captures the buzz and excitement happening in the region right now—and for years to come.”

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TECH TALK

Cloud or On-Premise?

Considerations & comparisons when deciding how to configure IT & VoIP applications

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here is continued market momentum to have many enterprise Information Technology (IT) applications migrate from premise-based solutions to hosted cloud services.

For businesses considering the migration of an application to hosted cloud-based services, there is an important planning consideration – know your costs when making this decision, including future costs as your business grows.

Many enterprises today use some of the following IT applications for operating their businesses:

a hosted Quickbooks solution on a monthly, annual and fiveyear basis for AcmeFinancial with three financial users, 10 employees and includes self-service payroll and timesheet capabilities.

• Accounting and customer relationship management (CRM) software that provides invoicing, ledger management, expenses, inventory, timesheets, payroll, and more. Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zoho and Quickbooks are examples of popular CRM and accounting software packages • Industry-specific practice software such as PCLaw for lawyers, SoftDent for dental practice and Compulink for medical practices • Premised-based and hosted voice solutions from manufacturers such as Cisco, Avaya, Mitel, Vonage and RingCentral Each of these applications can be deployed in a client-server model on the business premise or hosted in the Internet cloud where the server is accessed by a browser or standalone software client. The major advantage of premise-based IT application deployments is typically lower costs of ownership over the medium to long term. To achieve this lower cost advantage, the enterprise must purchase the software and install on an onsite server. They must also plan for software maintenance, backup and periodic server hardware refreshes. Hosted services avoid much of the premise-based server and licensing costs by placing the server components in the cloud and charging monthly user fees for the service.

A fictitious company called AcmeFinancial with 10 employees will be used to illustrate the costs between premise-based and hosted IT solutions. The remainder of this article uses pricing publically available on the Internet and does not include vendor discounts or discounted upgrade fees. Readers are encouraged to validate these numbers with vendors for specific pricing details for their own particular situation.

AcmeFinancial has been using the Intuit Quickbooks premised-based software for their accounting, invoicing, payroll, and time management applications for several years. Three people access the financial information in Quickbooks and everyone accesses the software for logging their time and charging to projects. AcmeFinancial installed Quickbooks in 2014 and requires an upgrade to the latest version as well as the hardware server that Quickbooks runs on. The following chart illustrates the costs for 36

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Employees and financial users access the cloud-based Quickbooks server via a web browser on their computers that are connected to the Internet. Key advantages of the Quickbooks hosted solution includes immediate access to new Quickbooks features as they become available, no need for a hardware server to run the Quickbooks backend server and server backups are managed in the cloud.

In the next chart, the costs of upgrading to a premise-based Quickbooks server are detailed. One-time licensing costs for Quickbooks 2019 Desktop Pro and Windows 10 Pro software is included along with the purchase of a new hardware server to support the Quickbooks Server. Subscription costs for Quickbooks self-service Payroll and Tsheets Timesheets capabilities are identical between the premise and online hostbased solutions. Backups and software upgrades must be managed internally when implementing this solution.

Given the minimal cost differences between the Quickbooks premise-based versus hosted cloud services over five years—combined with the cloud advantages of automated Continued on pg. 38

Please join us as we celebrate our distinguished and deserving honorees for their contributions to the Meadowlands Chamber and the business community. î ˘e evening will feature an exquisite cocktail dinner reception, followed by our Legacy Awards program and a spectacular Viennese dessert hour. You do not want to miss this elegant opportunity to create business connections, expand current relationships and enjoy a fun evening of celebration!

Cathy Choi President, BULBRITE

David T. Gockel

Madeleine D. Robinson

Gary Wilbur

President/CEO, Langan

CEO, LPS Industries, LLC

President, R.S. Knapp Co

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backups and regular software upgrades with the hosted solution—deploying Quickbooks as a cloud-based service is appropriate for AcmeFinancial.

AcmeFinancial also wants to upgrade their voice service and is considering premise versus cloud-based VoIP solutions.

The company averages 4000 incoming and outgoing minutes of voice utilization across multiple calls per month. The following chart illustrates the costs for implementing a 10-line host-based VoIP solution using Vonage as the cloud service.

Hosted VoIP providers such as Vonage and RingCentral, deliver hosted voice services to businesses on a per-user (or extension basis) with extensions mapped to phones. Each user is charged a hosting fee of $38 per month with 10 user extensions translating to a $380 per month expense. For this monthly voice hosting expense, AcmeFinancial can place an unlimited number of incoming and outgoing calls throughout the United States.

Polycom phones are sold by hosted providers at a premium of $200 versus $120 per phone purchased elsewhere. The other $200 in one-time charges is for a Power-over-Ethernet switch that powers the phones without needing a power adapter for each phone. The total one-time charge for the phones and Ethernet switch is $2200. Hosted carriers also offer leasing packages for phones but this option was not considered in this analysis.

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The premise-based VoIP solution has higher one-time costs due to the installation of a voice server, uninterruptable power supply and professional services for configuration. The equipment cost is offset by the lower $120 Polycom VVX 411 phone costs purchased directly from suppliers. The monthly voice costs are lower than a hosted voice solution as AcmeFinancial will purchase voice connectivity on a metered basis from an Internet Telephony Service Provider (ITSP). For 4000 voice minutes, the monthly cost for voice services from VoIP carriers at $0.0125 per minute is $50 compared to $380 for the hosted VoIP solution.

The annual voice costs of $600 for a premised-based VoIP solution is significantly lower than the $4,560 cost using a cloudbased VoIP solution from Vonage. The savings are achieved by purchasing metered voice minutes from an ITSP. The five-year expenditures for voice services using a premised-based VoIP solution are $6,200 compared to $25,000 for a host-based VoIP solution. For this application, a premise-based VoIP solution is significantly more cost-effective than a cloud-based solution, especially if AcmeFinancial grows and adds more employees, and therefore phones, to their network.

There may be other factors besides costs—such as skillsets and operational simplicity—that influence the final choice when upgrading an IT application. That said, the Quickbooks and VoIP upgrade analysis for the AcmeFinancial firm emphasizes the importance of carefully understanding your costs when configuring an upgraded premise-based IT application versus hosting the solution in the cloud.

By Peter Krautle, Managing Partner, Louisa Voice

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World Golf Network RiverVale (201) 489-2240

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Kerasotes Showplace 14 Secaucus (201) 210-5364 Liberty Science Center Jersey City (201) 200-1000 Meadowlands Racing & Entertainment East Rutherford (201) 460-4166

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Hackensack Riverkeeper Hackensack (201) 968-0808

King’s Court Health & Sports Club Lyndhurst (201) 460-0088

The Mills at Jersey Gardens Jersey City (908) 436-3005

LA Fitness Signature Club Secaucus (201) 751-9940

The Shops at Riverside Hackensack (201) 489-0151

Sally Beauty Supply North Bergen 201-295-0020

NJSEA Meadowlands Environment Center Lyndhurst (201) 460-8300

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SOJO Spa Club Edgewater (201) 313-7200 The DOJO Rutherford (201) 933-3050

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Westfield Garden State Plaza Paramus (201) 843-2121

Outlet Shopping Calvin Klein Company Store Secaucus (201) 223-9760 Gucci Secaucus (201) 392-2670 Tommy Hilfiger Secaucus (201) 863-5600

The Plaza at Harmon Meadow Secaucus (908) 226-5285 Newport Centre Jersey City (201) 626-207z

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Allstate Agency, www.allstate.com/kmeredith.......................................................14 Archer, www.archerlaw.com......................................................................................7 Atlantic Stewardship Bank, www.ASBnow.com....................................................27 AVE, www.aveliving.com........................................................................................28

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Axiom Communications, www.axiominc.net.........................................................41 BergenPAC, www.bergenpac.org...........................................................................19 Blue Jay Printing, www.bluejayprinting.com.........................................................25 Caryl Communications Inc, www.caryl.com...........................................................13 CBHCare Wellness & Support Center, www.cbhcare.com...................................21 Chart House, www.chart-house.com......................................................................40 Eastwick College, www.eastwick.edu....................................................................11 Ernst & Young, www.ey.com.................................................................................15 EZ Ride, www.ezride.org..............................................................Inside Front Cover Fairleigh Dickinson University, www.fdu.edu.......................................................20 Frank’s GMC, www.FranksGMC.net........................................................................29 Goya Foods, www.goya.com..................................................................................17 Hackensack Riverkeeper, www.hackensackriverkeeper.org..................................29 Hackensack University Medical Center, hackensackumc.org....................Front Cover Harmon Meadow Plaza..........................................................................................47

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Il Villaggio, www.ilvillaggio.com...........................................................................41 J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, www.jfcson.com.............................................................2 Jewel Electric, www.jewelelectric.com....................................................................16 Kearny Bank, www.KearnyBank.com......................................................................29 Marriott Saddle Brook, www.marriott.com/ewrsb...................................................9 Meadowlands Legacy Awards Reception, www.meadowlands.org......................37 Meadowlands Live!, www.meadowlandslive.com.................................................42 Meadowlands SBC Seminar Series, www.meadowlands.org................................46 NAI James E. Hanson, www.naihanson.com..........................................................5 Nanina’s In The Park & The Park Savoy, www.naninasinthepark.com...................43 NYSF Magazine, www.nysfmag.com.......................................................................25 Overhead Door, www.DockNDoor.com...................................................................48 PSE&G, www.pseg.com.............................................................................................1 RPM Raceway, www.rpmraceway.com....................................................................46 Ruth’s Chris Steak House, www.ruthschris.com......................................Back Cover Safety NJ, www.safetynj.com.................................................................................31 Scarinci & Hollenbeck, www.scarincihollenbeck.com............................................26 State of Affairs with Steve Adubato, www.SteveAdubato.org.................................33 The Harper at Harmon Meadow, www.TheHarperApts.com............Inside Back Cover The Table: Metropolitan NJ Dining Guide, www.meadowlandslive.com...............42 Weiss Realty, www.jweissrealty.com......................................................................48 For more information on multimedia advertising in Meadowlands Media products, please contact Martha Morley at (201) 493-7996 or email: greerentps@aol.com Call for new items! If your organization has news or announcements to share with our audience, please send to Joe Garavente at JGaravente@meadowlands.org or call (201) 939-0707

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