About Jack Nadel
A World War II hero who returned home with nothing and built a business empire, it's easy to classify Jack Nadel as an entrepreneurial guru, but there's more to the story than that.
From savvy business advice for the veteran businessperson to proven tips for those hoping to make their way in the rough-and-tumble real life corporate world, he's a renowned business leader known for his sage advice, but there's more to the story than that.
In a world dominated by negative role models and "bad news," he's devoted to accentuating the positive in life. He hosted a popular television show, "Out of the Box With Jack Nadel", featuring interviews with top celebrities, but there's more to the story than that.
Young and restless at 86, and more creative than ever, Jack now writes a weekly blog, CommunicationIsInspiration.com. This is a cross generational dialogue with his 31 year old stepdaughter, Hillary. He has also written and published a novel, "My Enemy, My Friend," a sweeping tale of international business, love and forgiveness based on his own life experiences and is now being considered for a motion picture.
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Jack Nadel started his business career immediately after being discharged from the U.S. Army Air Corps in January of 1946. During World War II, Jack flew 27 combat missions over Japan in a B-29, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters, and the Presidential Unit Citation.
In 1953, with very little money and no business education, a head full of ideas and an enormous drive to succeed, Jack founded Jack Nadel International and became a pioneer in the sales promotion business with his mantra — find a need and fill it. Grounded in creative, innovative ideas, ethical dealings, and powerful execution, Jack Nadel International was the first promotional company to establish a footprint in the markets of the world. Throughout the 57 years that followed JNI created promotional products and manufacturing opportunities in the America, Europe and Asia.
In 1987, commissioned by the American Management Association, Jack Nadel wrote his first book, Cracking the Global Market: How To Do Business Around The Corner And Around The World. And in 1988 President Ronald Reagan tapped Jack to become part of a Presidential trade mission whose goal was to encourage the sale of American merchandise in Japan.
After thousands of experiences in the real markets of the world, Jack dedicated himself to promoting the American free enterprise system. In 1993 he wrote "How To Succeed In Business Without Lying, Cheating, Or Stealing, enumerating some of the rules of the road that had worked for Jack throughout his successful business career. In 1999 Jack wrote, There's No Business Like Your Bu$iness: How to Turn Your Knowledge into Personal Profit. And, in 2000 he wrote a historical novel, My Enemy, My Friend described by one reader as "a true can't-put-down-book that deftly combines historical narrative, business and war that is screaming to be made into a movie!"
Jack is still very active, writing, lecturing, and advising Jack Nadel International. He feels that his great range of experiences can be used in perpetuating the American Free Enterprise System and the high standard of living it has created.
Books by Jack Nadel:
- Cracking the Global Market: How to do Business Around the Corner and Around the World
- There's No Business Like Your Business
- How to Succeed in Business Without Lying, Cheating or Stealing
- My Enemy, My Friend
