USA TODAY: There’s much to be said about a book that makes you pull out a pen and paper to start jotting notes and jump-starts your mind to examine the work you do, why you do it and how it makes a difference in the lives of others. That’s exactly what It’s Not What You […]
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The following guest post is by Bernard B. Kamoroff, C.P.A. and is excerpted from the 2009 Edition of Mr. Kamoroff’s book 422 Tax Deductions for Businesses and Self Employed Individuals. Tax Filing Season is here, and there are still several things you can do to reduce your taxes for 2008. Here are seven tax tips
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American-Statesman: Is becoming an entrepreneur on your list of New Year’s resolutions? “Life Entrepreneurs,” a new book by Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek, argues that the concept isn’t limited to your career – it’s about creating the complete life that you want. The book takes readers through a process of getting in touch with their
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Fast Company: You’ve heard about cloud computing, but Nick Carr helps you understand it in a way you haven’t before. Using the shift to the electric grid at the turn of the last century as an analogy, Carr lays out a surprising future of utility computing and its ramifications for business and society. Photo by
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Fast Company: Our consumerist society is awash in marketing, and no one has thought more critically and intelligently about it than Rob Walker. Buying In chronicles the shift to what he calls “murketing,” or marketing that’s parading as not-marketing, and tells compelling stories of the 21st Century’s most deft purveyors of it. This is one
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Fast Company: This arch, funny meditation on the “forgotten” generation wedged between baby boomers and millennials tells the story of being liberated by being underestimated. You could do worse than Stephen Colbert, YouTube, and some guy named Barack Obama as proof that GenX may, in fact, be changing the world. Photo by Viking.
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Fast Company: The pioneering work of Nobel Prize-winning economists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has led to a number of books that consider rational and irrational behavior in a new light. The Brafman brothers tell the story of irrational behavior in business and life and how we can combat it with sharp anecdotes and a
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Fast Company: We’re fond of books that open our minds to new ideas. But how then, how do you then communicate those ideas to others? Enter Dan Roam. He shows you how to create simple drawings–that you can do even if you don’t have any talent for sketching–that are simple but effective tools in breaking
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Do you feel like you’ve done everything that you would have liked to do by now? Unfortunately there are too many people who would have to respond to that question with a no. Rick Deutsch hasn’t cleaned out his to do list, but he’s well on his way! Also known as Mr. Half Dome, Rick
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The Art of Money Getting or, Golden Rules for Making Money was originally published in 1880 by P. T. Barnum. Part 21 Preserve Your Integrity It is more precious than diamonds or rubies. The old miser said to his sons: “Get money; get it honestly, if you can, but get money.” This advice was not
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