We have been fielding inquires from clients with one common question, “What is the advantage of two listings?” here is the response from one of our European partners: If the stock price is $1 on the otcbb it is a similar price on the FSE in . The IR campaign would be reflected in that way if you have strong buying in the US and Canada, the European market maker has also to fill the bid. Which means that the stock price will also go up on the FSE. You can attract much more investors and build a bigger shareholder base with the right IR program if you are dual listed. Which means you can attract a much bigger market with the stock. The most common reason for companies to opt for this is the need to list in two different countries. This may happen because of:

A merger of companies listed in different countries or,

A new listing to gain access to capital from a larger market

The second is, typically companies that are already listed in their home country which, as they get bigger, find it useful to have access to the larger amounts of money they can raise in larger markets. In the interests of their existing (home country) shareholders they need to retain their original listing.

Advantages to Investors / Shareholders

As mentioned earlier, the major advantage is that the shareholders can buy and sell shares of both the companies on bourses in the two countries. That means, when a company’s securities are listed on more than one exchange for the purpose of adding liquidity to the shares and allowing investors greater choice in where they can trade their shares. It contributes to the liquidity of the shares listed. This enables investors to have a greater choice as to where and when they can trade their shares. A significant apparent advantage of a dual-listed structure for companies is the benefit of scale and access to foreign capital.

It is not a widely used technique, although it is thought to improve the spread between the ‘bid and ask’ price which helps investors obtain a better price for their securities.

From the shareholders’ perspective they can buy and sell shares of both the companies on the stock exchanges in the two countries.

A structure would also remove the time-consuming requirement for the companies to take regulatory approvals from the various countries in which they operate should they go in for a conventional merger.

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In order for a company make a cross boarder expansion into a massive market like China work the consulting firm must have powerful local and federal government contracts as well as regional and local business leaders that can support the transition. Get ready to make payoffs as this is still the way developing nations operate and during an audit there are always three sets of books, one set the company shows the government for taxes, one they show to clients to earn their business and then the actual books which are only shown to insiders. Without the proper synergies in place by the consultant and the regional power-base you can forget a trouble free expansion. Consultants who are taking their clients public in the United States and then engineering international expansion and global strategic alliances are connected, in a big way to law makers on all sides as this is the only realistic way to facilitate a global expansion. I have been in this industry for 25 years and there is one company that is constantly in the news and on the tongues of global strategists for their ongoing track record for successfully taking companies public and facilitating global expansions on behalf of their clients at a speed that is simply staggering. Princeton Corporate Solutions is one of the only true global expansion strategies consulting firms. Their CEO, James Scott has established himself among US, EU and Chinese governments and regional lawmakers as an executive with the contacts to make or break a local industry in a developing/industrializing nation.

“It’s all about synergy”, Scott explains, “when taking a company public the corporate infrastructure must be in place and the professional pedigree of the ‘C’ level executives and board of directors must be in place. After this the company can focus on inter-industry alliances and then step onto the path of going public and that path will typically start with the OTCBB if the company has ambitions to grow onto the NASDAQ”.

And as for international expansion Scott explains, “Once again, it is about synergy. We always help our clients piggyback off of the successes, distribution and alliances that we have set up for previous clients and whenever we can put another successful entity into the mix, it strengthens the position of all parties involved”.

International consulting firms agree that the one true, viable fund raising strategy is a public offing with powerful post public investor relations in place to create a market for the company and global expansion takes more than elbow grease and know how but a plethora of contacts that cover all the basis’.

For Global Expansion Strategies try these links Wiki Power, or This Consulting Firm or contact your local Congressmen

That said, we should use these mediums to put out praise as well. I just left an NJIT (New Jersey Institute of Technology) conference for their incubator program where the latest and greatest in technology and biotech got to pitch their companies to angel investors and private equity firms. There were some pretty reputable companies their and investors that could pay off the deficit of a small country with their signature on a check. I was there looking at a company with a unique EKG technology that will revolutionize emergency rooms everywhere but that will be in another blog if we cut a deal; back to the conference.

We’re sitting in a room packed shoulder to should, no seats available just standing room by the door then a guy comes in, walks into the seating section (people waited in line for an hour for those seats) with his assistant, the people in their seat looked at him, he looked back and they moved and offered him their seats, then two minutes later, one of the owners of a pretty large hedge fund brings him coffee. Um, can you say strange?

As it turns out, this was James Scott the CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions, absolutely the creme de la creme of international strategies and IPOs. The reason everyone was kissing his backside was because he was there to pick a company to spearhead legislation for his political clients. Their firm is unique as part of their process is to find promising but underdeveloped companies and blast them into super-stardom with capital, structuring and organization and IPO and getting his clients built directly into legislation, bills that are in the process of raising votes and awareness to be passed as laws and regulations. He can make or break a company, hedge fund or politician over his knee like a twig. He was the personification of power. His presence made the room vibrate with his influence. I couldn’t take my eyes off him. It was pretty awkward as we were all staring at him whispering.

20 minutes before the conference was over he got up and left, I guess he didn’t find anything he liked but the funny thing is, half of the players in the room got up to chase him down the hall to initiate contact. It was nice to see that the people that everyone was trying to sell and impress still have to do some butt kissing of their own to keep climbing the circles of influence within their industry.

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I had the pleasure of being introduced to the CEO of this company, James Scott, while I was in Midtown, Manhattan last week. I was coming out of the Yale Club and saw a group of 10 or more consultants standing next to a Lincoln Town car and inside, there he was, on the phone and puffing the infamous Baccarat Churchill, sunglasses and completely unaware of the group waiting to talk to him when he got out of the car. I heard the name Machiavelli a dozen times in less than 60 seconds and I was hooked, I had to find out who this guy was.

After a few minutes, he stepped out of the car, the first person to greet him was an NYU student who asked him to sign her thesis paper (that’s not a joke, that actually happened). He signed someone’s copy of ‘The Art of War’ and even the box of an audio version ‘The 48 Laws of Power’. All you could hear is ‘Mr. Scott, where are you staying?’ and ‘Are you going to be speaking in the city’ and so on.

He took off his sun glasses and put on his black rimmed specs and imagine my dismay when I saw he wasn’t even 40 years old, handsome, exquisitely dressed and a look that could hypnotize a cobra, I had to meet him.

If you are an economic or political strategist, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve certainly heard of him. He’s called on by governments who need economic turnaround strategies. He’s called on by publicly traded corporations for crisis management and to give his blessing to the board on their new CEO choice or bless the CEO’s decision to make a move against another industry player. He works his magic when a pre public company needs to be globalized with strategic alliances to set a solid pathway to a fast tracked success. He can pick a board of directors for a new company going public that would bring a tear to the eye of any shareholder. His crisis management will shift the defensive position to a company’s largest competitor. He’s taken what started as hostile takeover and turned it into the most financially prosperous year his client’s corporation has ever had.

James Scott has a reputation for perpetual success and the inability to lose. He is what every CEO wishes they could be and what every board wishes they could hire. You’ve never seen focus until you watch his eyes when counseling COO on how to grow a company by 30% in a year while cutting 15% of its workforce and shutting down 11 locations by off shoring, carefully identified partners for hard-hitting global alliances and other strategies that defy logic but seem to work every time.

After about 20 minutes things calmed down and I was accompanied by a friend who is with one of the broker dealers downtown who knew him and I asked for an introduction. He was walking down to a cigar shop down the street (one of those members type places, the name escapes me) we walked with him. During the five minute walk his phone rang a number of times and in that time I heard him speak Korean, English, Spanish and Mizo (a language spoken only in one state in the northeastern section of India called Mizoram). The phone stopped ringing long enough to say hello and get a quick intro.

I shook his hand, introduced myself and asked him “What is your secret?”, he chuckled and then asked me, “What is the difference between a tactician and a strategist?” I said, “I don’t know” he responded, ‘Neither does anyone else and that’s the secret’. After that he went down the steps to the members lounge and I’ve only been reading about him ever since.

It’s funny. I thought I had it all together until I came across this man. I felt that I had general economics figured out and that I was on a fast paced road to success and I find myself pondering the reality that I’m 64 years old and I haven’t even scratched the surface.

I found some more on James Scott, CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions , and the Princeton Youtube Site is here.

One thing that these people don’t realize is that those to which they’ve chosen to kneel down and bask beneath glorious rays of influence are typically just pawns with prestigious public labels being controlled by other supremacies. Here are the facts. Upstarts and wannabes will pick the face to an organization (political or corporate) for their association to grow their career and raise their social circle pedigree but the truth is, behind this puppets are those who whisper in the ear, spin webs of control, and sway with their money and ‘real power’.

I have yet to find a true puppet master comfortable to be in the public eye. It is easier to step back and dictate the moves of pawns streamlined by the upstart’s natural instinct to voluntarily be controlled by their betters. Most people, when it comes down to it, are content with the illusion of influence as long as they are the center of the public’s idea of power.

Case study: When I have a client in the process of globalization it is important to get them built into legislation that is being put up for vote. Whether it’s the USA or Europe, I never communicate with the politician directly, that’s a waste of time, instead I go to his handlers. When I say handlers I don’t mean his campaign manager, assistant or any of the traditional ‘blockers’. I go where the money is, because once you find out who funds his campaign with capital and votes, everything is easy from there. Congressmen, Senators, Governors and Mayors of large cities are placed in this position to be a talking head, a willing hand puppet to special interest groups that will flip the bill for the campaign and make sure that the votes are in place to be re-elected, as long as the political figure continue to play ball and stick to the agenda.

To the uninformed and uninitiated, the apex to the pyramid of power is usually represented by the localized face to a political organization (Republican, Democrat etc) but here are three powers that influence everything this individual does. Power is dictated by moneymen, lobbyists and special interest groups. If you have money to donate the most it can get you is a favor or a letter for your kid to get into private school, but the power, the absolute power in politics is social influence and the ability to bring with you, an ocean of voters, turn-key and ready to go. Try to find one conservative republican politician in the south that isn’t backed by the Southern Baptist Convention or Christian Coalition.

The capacity to provide votes and a ’cause’ type following can also be applied to the business world. When we set up strategic alliances, recruit board members or CEOs the main criteria at the end of the day is money and votes defined as: capital raise for previous organizations and the increase of revenues during their time with their previous company. As for ‘votes’, in the corporate world that would be termed ‘alliances’, support that will be turnkey for my client if we take this executive, board member or alliance on. What does their direct contact portfolio look like? Who will they bring through the door that will offer an instant benefit for my client’s company?

Money + alliances = Power. If you are trying to establish yourself as a power broker in the political or corporate realm you don’t need to actually have the money, just access to it. Access can be defined as direct parlay to those who cut the checks and the influence to get them to move when the time is right. Influence, alliances, voters are easy for those who are natural networks. Talk little, do more. Have a plan as to what you are trying to do. Decide what you are trying to influence and build your network from there.

Don’t start from scratch trying to put together a group of followers, instead, lobby the individual organization management or figureheads. Start brokering power among these groups, make introductions but always leave just enough out so that they need to call you when they need something. From here you should be able to build a solid power base of influence.

Don’t come across as too eager. Instead, get to know these individuals in a calm, easy manner, research them before you initiate contact and even your first contact can’t seem intentional (you may want to ‘run into them’ at you’re local tennis club or golf club and strike up some conversation etc.). Then during conversation make a mental note of the topics and their ‘needs’ and from their needs you’ll know how to refer and network them. Ask nothing in return, ever! Instead, the contact and affiliation is all you are trying to accomplish here. Building your organization of influence in this way will rapidly get you where you want to be without the learning curve of catering to the wrong people.

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For those of us who are more comfortable with the truth and understand that the gentle lapping shore is nothing more than a typhoon of lava spinning uncontrollably around you, keep reading. Every second of ever day there is a new crisis that will come to a head via methods by your opposition that is out of bounce and under the belt. They don’t care about your image damage or crumbling client base due to this blatant ‘lie’ or sucker punch aftermath. Your response should be just as dirty and everlasting.

Never allow an individual, client or competitor to get close enough to where they can engage and initiate an offensive but when it happens, you need to take this ‘tap to the chin’ and respond with a sledgehammer to the skull of the opponent. You will need to pummel them from every angle both personally and professionally.

The first thing you need to do is downplay the negative publicity issued by this entity in regards to you or your company. For this you need to take every ounce of legitimacy and industry authority and first call it into question by publicizing concepts that will confuse the public as to the company’s ability to follow through with their claims, next inject cancer into the cell that carries the message attached to this company so that every area of coverage that this company has becomes infected with the message that you put out.

Find out, first about the individual that has taken it upon themselves to publicize their negative opinion about your company, next who is his direct management, who is the executive over this management and next who are their most obvious strategic partners and who is their most critical distribution or sales alliance and finally are they public or a private entity.

With the above information you should chart the entity with a plan for annihilation, this offensive must be quick, strategic, planned to the ‘t’ and without mercy. And finally this devastation must be via third party and as public as possible. The best way to get this done is by calling up localized competitors who have been affected by the market presence of this company and organize them as a regional militia that will infiltrate the entity and follow through on your behalf. To get them to the point of action, show them the advantages of owning the regional market share of this target. Offer them economic supplementation for their efforts. Use an outside social media vendor to help this militia gain the regional advantage and distribution mechanism under their name via your social media vendor. You need to stay in control of the social media distribution so that the information release is timed perfectly.

The attach must encompass the individual personally that initiated this process against your company. Every ounce of legitimacy they have must be called into question and then stamped out of existence so that their presence can’t possibly be perpetuated in the industry by getting another position in this particular niche. Then work your way up the management chain, each time mentioning the initiator that put this into motion.

Corporate crisis management is not a defensive but a war strategy offensive. It’s not an act of ‘reaction’ it’s the act of obscene annihilation that is swift, public and a demonstration to others of what will happen if they try to cross you.

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These specialists offer the upper echelon solutions and bedlam tactics that can disrupt entire economies, influence legislation and make hand puppets of any lobby or special interest group of their choosing. The weight that they bring to pull off such crushing power plays is a track record of secretive and innovative strategies of crisis management via chaos induction, contacts that elevate beyond presidential to the global economic and institutional movers and shakers that influence everything we do. Call them the Illuminati or call them our saviors, one thing that can’t be denied is the obscene intellectual level and macro effect that they wield like psychological hand grenades.

One of the youngest in this ensemble of globalization demigods is James Scott with a small, virtually invisible boutique consulting firm called Princeton Corporate Solutions. With a client roster populated by past and present presidents, Kings, Queens, global governmental elites and corporations that shape our future economy his skill set is both extremely diverse and all together confusing; that is unless you can see the bigger picture of what it takes to spin scheming webs in the ears of those who you and I perceive as the controllers who are, in reality controlled by this minute group of chaos strategist.

What I’ve seen is both spooky and shocking. The eclectic combination of political and economic strategies and blanketing influence in the arsenal of James Scott would lead one to think of all the conspiracies of on the web and Saturday morning secret society episodes on the SiFi channel. Could it be true that the world is actually controlled by a handful of men sitting in a room in Switzerland playing with us like gods and overlords calculating our every move and setting up roadblocks to guide us like sheep to the slaughter?
When I think of James Scott and his small group of colleagues and power-brokers I am both in awe and disgust. Being a 34 year old with no traceable background (actually no one even knows what country this guy is even from, rumor has it he’s German but grew up in the United States) or political/corporate mentors for this rapid assimilation into the who’s who in international econo-political elite, I am beginning to believe that reptilians control our planet (obviously, that’s a joke, but how does someone come out of nowhere and become one of the most commanding strategist on the face of the planet with the contacts to overturn legislation and actual governmental elections not to mention taking a company that has never been on the map and making them the face to an industry like he’s done so many times.

And after the awe comes the anger and frustration when I think about the question of ‘how much money and power does a person need to be content and from where this twisted and almost sickening obsession with power and influence stem from?’ When you acknowledge the reality that there are invisible hands that dictate the positioning of political movements and economic chaos, success and failure and all the in-between it is a combination of liberating and all together frustrating. Strangely liberating in the sense that one is led to feel as if the weight of the actual ability to influence is taken off one’s shoulders as the ultimately have no real effect or say in the fate of their future while this is frustrating because it is human nature to feel the need to control the environment around them.
I have studied this man, his company and the organizations that he works with and again am angered by the obscene control that one man can have over an international population. I am constantly steaming with emotional rage when I research these back room, closed door meetings where in an hour an agenda is set that will affect my children’s future, my life and the lives of those around me. What gives them the right? How does this happen where we lose control so fast with no fight from the public?

Part of me wants to give up and throw in the towel, the other part of me longs to be part of this illuminated assemblage of those who have stepped up to take control and bring a structure that unites the political and economic elite in today’s ever changing domain. So many times I’ve found myself sitting down to put together an article exposing this Illuminati group as puppet masters, evil doers and all together self-appointed gods of men but when this emotion driven ’cause’ is interrupted with the reality that these men are the oversight for out of control, power hungry political groups and econo-corporate monopoly junkies I can’t pick a position to guide the tone of the article.

We are angered by the power and influence that these men have over us but seriously, where would we be without them? Where would our economy be without men to step in with the instant legislative control to keep economies moving or to keep one particular political organization from turning our country into a principality controlled by a dictator? At the end of the day I think my real desire is to be part of the process and to be the overseer of the overseers and it all comes down to ‘control’. Isn’t that really what you want? This article will be the first of many as I am able to accumulate more documentation and facts on these organizations that tower over us from on high. Stay tuned…

Want to find out more about Illuminati, you can also find out more at here as my research uncovers more information we will continue to make up pubic.

Sometimes, if you’ve waited too long to respond to the actions of a competitor it’s too late, throw in the towel and move on, you’ve lost. Other times there is still ample opportunity to rebound. The objective in this case would be to inject chaos, confusion and communication blockades along the path of the opposition.

The world of propaganda and chaos can pull you down into the underbelly of dirty tactical purgatory so it is important to get in and get before it affects the longevity of your corporate position in a negative branding sense.
First, to keep from direct association by the public of your involvement in this campaign your actions must be indirectly facilitated (no one can know you’re involved). The best cat’s paw for this are local competitors in your market place that could use a helping hand to paralyze certain aspects of your targets corporate model. You may want to offer assistance to the most verbal and dirty of local competitors by way of marketing collateral that pursues the customer base of your competitor. Offer better rates, better services, better terms whatever, just get the clients thinking about their options. This serves many purposes. It confuses the seemingly, calm and organized client retention model of your target, the smaller competitor takes the heat and liability and this chaos process is scalable to the extent you could go to each of the smaller competitors in your locality and do the exact same thing.

Once this is done, you can count on the target’s infrastructure to start coming apart at the seams, slowly so you want to help it along. The first thing companies do when times get tough is pass the blame which depletes the cohesive nature of an otherwise solid company. This is when you want to start pricking the company with rumors and recruiting calls. Start with the salesman and work up to the sales manager. Sales are the lifeblood to any organization. No sales, no money.
Recruit sales agents when you can. Have a local executive recruiting firm do this for you and make it aggressive. You want the sales agent and all their contacts. Some executives will come over and some will not. For those who do not, give them a little baggage in the form of gossip to take back to your target to get the rumor mill started. Rumors are like a cancer and will eat away at an entity like corrosive rust.
When a sales executive turns you down, pass his name and info to the smaller local competitors so that they can take their turn to try to recruit them. Whether he goes with one of them or not isn’t the issue, the agenda is to poison the organization, not kill it. Confuse the management.

After the above has been done move to the financial side. After the sales, the financial department of an organization is most critical. These paper-pushers are always upset with their lot in life and their employer will typically personify the epitome of what has gone wrong so feed on that. plant seeds of discontent in the minds of these unstable desk jockeys. Find out where they have drinks after work, buy them a round, become friends, tell them that you’d be happy to ‘hook them up’ with a job at your company or a local competitor. The feeling that they have options will induce an artificial sense of confidence that will only last as long as their relationship with you is intact. You’re the guy that tells them how they are worth more than what they are getting, they can do better etc.

Usually, this will do the trick. Keep the above going as long as you can and it will slowly eliminate your largest competitor as a threat and you can dip in and claim your rightful position in the market place. Sometimes you’ll need to run though the above cycle a few times for optimal affect but the above process will always have an impact as long as you are in control.

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Yes, this industry has been nothing but lies and chaos, that is, until about 8 years ago. A small consulting firm called Princeton Corporate Solutions began to take this insider knowledge and make it available through very public articles and blogs. The blog on their website is one of the premier global economics and IPO blog stops on every economist’s pilgrimage to seeking and using investment banking, global commerce and IPO knowledge written by the hands of the masters.

The PCS blog does something that no other financial blog in the world does, they take away the technical jargon and in plain English, patiently and painstakingly take the reader by the hand and show them how something like having a personal bank account with a top tier institutional lender can be adding debt to your children’s tax liability 20 years from now.

They talk about the ‘unspoken’ truths of how if a country wants to hurt another country that is not cooperating with insiders, then the insiders want to impose economic sanctions on these decanters and inflict pain by damaging trade relations, threatening IMF intervention or liquidating currency holding to further damage the company who’s not playing by the rules of the establishment. Taking the military into a country is more for statement than anything as economic sanctions are the most powerful tool of war without lifting a single gun and the goal is to get the citizens of the country fed up and wound up so that they force internal changes within their borders to get those sanctions lifted but this rarely happens. The economy will eventually weaken and big business will step in with fists full of Uncle Sam’s money and start introducing the locals to the finer things in life, the luxuries that they could have but their president doesn’t want them to have them etc.

The exposing of how institutional insiders and politicians toy with the system is now termed ‘The Princeton Affect’ named after Princeton Corporate Solutions. “I think it’s a Wall Street Thing” says James Scott, CEO of PCS, “I just got so sick of hearing the lies on TV and having all the zombies at home watching and believing all this garbage. All we are trying to do is help the little guy understand what he is truly up against when trying to run the company in this economy.”

Global economics affects everyone with a pulse on the planet yet so few people understand it, ‘The Princeton Affect’ is the crystallization and simplifying technical economic issues in a way for the common man to increase knowledge and understanding on how to best protect oneself and grow during this difficult time as a business owner or C level executive.

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I met James Scott at Earl’s, a fine dining establishment for Bucks County’s upper crust. The waitress was a snob, I was invisible to the bartender and the experience of waiting for him to arrive was a pride swallowing nightmare that is difficult to put into words then James walks in, polished, confident and ready to get down to business. “Why is my friend still standing” he snapped at the waitress walking by, “I’ll be with you in a…” before she could finish, he interrupted, “we’ll find our own seat, you’ll find us and bring us menus, Steve follow me”. We grabbed a table and to him, this was normal. “If you wait once you’ll spend your life waiting. So what can I do for you?”

I was expecting someone older, in their 50’s or 60’s, he was in his 30’s with a chip on his shoulder to act as warning to any opposition, anytime, anyplace that you may start an argument or debate, he’ll finish it. I became drawn in immediately. He received a call as we sat down from a congressman in the north east and spoke with such confidence, eloquence and authority I felt as though I was sitting in front of an 80 year old statesman that’s been born and bred into the political strategies game.

When he hung up my first question was “Where do you get your confidence to talk to power players with such comfort and ease?” He looked up at me with a glare that was focused and made me feel he was looking into me as opposed to at me and replied, “I think confidence is all relative to what you know and what you know you know” with a grin, he crossed his legs, ran both hands over his slacks and continued, “I made it a habit early on to say as little as possible so that when I was ready to talk I had the attention of the entire room. I made sure that I studied the attendees and read through the body language and speech patterns of everyone there to find the leaders, followers, supporters and skeptics and after collecting all this information I could determine who I needed to address in the room. After 12 years of studying body language and voice patterns it becomes a process of analyzing the situation at hand and responding with an objective strategy that can be applied to the situation. I gained confidence from the successes of using this process time and time again.”

“How do you define this unique area of consulting that you specialize in? There are only 3 or 4 other consultants globally that have the contacts to both economic power players and political lobbyists and special interest groups. How do you keep everyone happy in such a stressful environment where crisis management is typically the job you’re being hired for?”

The waitress arrived at the table, it was 10:35am, some people were still having breakfast, I ordered a coffee, he ordered a vodka tonic, double Belvedere with extra lime as if drinking in the morning was normal behavior. He answered “My core consulting genre is strategic facilitation. I started with public and pre public corporations by setting them up properly to go public, then my firm would take them public, put together a post public investor relations process to grow their marketability to investors and then help them expedite their growth with acquisitions and merger identification and facilitation.” He continued, “I began getting involved on the political side as I would be contacted by a lobbyist group that was working with a congressman or senator who had issues they were trying to sort out and there was no one to call so they would typically get referred to me from a board member of a company I structured and they would say something like, ‘our candidate is having a similar issues that the CEO of ABC Inc was having and we wanted to see if you could come on board to help us work it out . . .’ and that’s how I started getting involved on the political side. Politics just like general corporate and economic strategies have many similar threads. I just try to use the experience from one project for the next and so on. I guess more than anything now I’m a fixer but I’m working more with lobbyists and special interest groups.”

I asked him what prompted the change from focusing on corporate strategies to lobby and special interest, “Well, at the end of the day politicians are the visual identification for an agenda. The agenda is typically started by demands from the localized constituency. Lobbyist and special interest groups spend millions of dollars researching statistics and geographic layouts to find the areas of the country/world that their prototypical support base resides. The next move is to identify the political power-base in that region and initiate support planning. If the political figures are open the next thing is localized job creation and general economics. The convergence of the two in a way that is conducive to instantaneous capitalization and results is where I come in. I work with lobby firms because that is where the real power is, not the actual politician.”

Again, every word was pronounced perfectly, his vocabulary was authoritative, his eyes didn’t blink, his posture was perfect and I have to admit, I couldn’t find a single chink in his armor. There wasn’t an ounce of pretentious or insecure put-downs or belittling of anyone and in talking to him I felt myself gaining more and more respect and admiration for him.

This 30 something ‘kid’ has more global political pull than even the most seasoned politician yet he was comfortable in his skin and completely calm. His breathing was paced and as I looked for the prototypical nervous habits such as a bouncing foot on the floor, sweaty brow, nail biting etc, none were present. He was, in every sense of the term a W.A.S.P without a single trace of insecurity. I was in awe and when I think about it now I believe I took something away with me that day. I’m 54 years old and I have to admit, I look up to him. That may sound strange and it’s even stranger to admit this after I’ve been writing on economics for 25 years.

As we wrapped up the meeting (he only set 20 minutes aside for me and time flew by) his next meeting rolled in. A Chinese oil company needing his strategies to help them out of some issues in Africa. “have a seat gentlemen” he said “I’m going to walk my friend out and will be back in a moment.” He walked me out and we shook hands and he said, “I know you’re a journalist and you’ll want to ask me how I want to be portrayed in the article and I would say this, just go with your gut. I have nothing to hide and my reputation is more about what I am able to accomplish for my clients as opposed to what potential clients read about me. Just write for your readers and it will be fine.” He put his left hand on my shoulder while his right hand stopped shaking my hand and just held it for a moment and then he walked away.

That’s it. That was my interview with James Scott, CEO of the almighty Princeton Corporate Solutions. We didn’t get into the juicy family topic because he wouldn’t mix work and family, we didn’t cover any controversy that surrounds him because there is none, there are no legitimacy issues with him as his cell phone has the world’s most influential professionals and political organizations on first name speed dial.

What I took away from this interview is one thing. The economy is in shambles our government is a disaster but there is a part of me that feels safe and secure knowing that James Scott is involved in the process. We need people like him to help the power structure keep order and to make the moves by these groups solid, strategic and strong enough to help us rebound the devastation we are now experiencing. We need leaders who were born to lead to take us as a people by the hand and tell us that it’s going to be OK and to just focus on our jobs and family, there are qualified people working in the shadows that don’t need nor want special recognition or their names in lights. James Scott is the silent leader that enables crumbling economies to rise again and hopeless corporate organizations to thrive. Keep an eye out for him; chances are he’s turning around a company or an economy near you.

Find out more about James Scott and Princeton Corporate Solutions, some more information can be found on their Corporate Blog