NEGEV GALA 2011 JUNE 13, 2011 • 6:00 PM • BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION 1325 GLENMORE TRAIL SOUTHWEST • CALGARY, ALBERTA FOR TICKETS PLEASE CONTACT THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OFFICE. P: 403-255-0295 • E: calgary@jnf.ca
As a business owner your always looking for the "EDGE" This is it!!
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1. “The Israeli business culture's emphasis on multidisciplinary skills—on everyone being able to operate in many sectors—rather than an intense and narrow focus in one area flows directly from the military culture. It also produces mashups: the combination of radically different technologies and disciplines.” – Newsweek
2. “In order to be innovative, you need to be motivated by a need to change the world,” says Peretz Lavie, [president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology] “It’s kind of a Jewish tradition that you’d like to do something meaningful.” – The Canadian Jewish News
3. “In Israel, the chutzpah is working for you in challenging ways of doing things. You do everything to go to the crux of matters. So, Israelis take risks, they dare, they [may] fail, but they go on.” - The Canadian Jewish News
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2. “But policymakers are beginning to turn their minds to the potentially more rewarding question of creating tomorrow’s jobs, rather than trying to save yesterday’s. The buzzwords in government circles are entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital.” – Shumpeter, The Economist
3. “How can governments do a better job at igniting entrepreneurship? Two well-timed new books provide some clues: “Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About it”, by Josh Lerner, and “Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle”, by Dan Senor and Saul Singer.” – Shumpeter, The Economist
3. “For Americans, the idea that military service can be great training for business is surprising. "Innovation" is hardly the first word most people associate with the military. "Improvisation" is even less likely to come to mind. And "flat"—as in anti-hierarchical and informal—would be completely counterintuitive. Yet these are exactly the attributes that employers have come to expect from young people emerging from their stint in the IDF.” - Newsweek
4. “The Israeli business culture's emphasis on multidisciplinary skills—on everyone being able to operate in many sectors—rather than an intense and narrow focus in one area flows directly from the military culture. It also produces mashups: the combination of radically different technologies and disciplines.” – Newsweek
5. “In order to be innovative, you need to be motivated by a need to change the world,” says Peretz Lavie, [president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology] “It’s kind of a Jewish tradition that you’d like to do something meaningful.” – The Canadian Jewish News
6. “In Israel, the chutzpah is working for you in challenging ways of doing things. You do everything to go to the crux of matters. So, Israelis take risks, they dare, they [may] fail, but they go on.” - The Canadian Jewish News
FIND OUT JUNE 13, 2011 • 6:00 PM • BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION-1325 GLENMORE TRAIL SOUTHWEST • CALGARY, ALBERTA
As Saul Singer author of START-UP NATION Comes to talk to the business community in Calgary and reveals all the "Business Secrets and Strategies" that addresses the trillion dollar question:
How is it that Israel - a country of only 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources—produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK?Want to come? Get you tickets now! 
