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Any of These 3 Monday Morning Micro-Challenges ...

Want to have a highly productive week and accomplish all or most of what you set out to do? Then start Monday morning with any of three quick micro-challenges that will set you up to reach your goals. Or, if you want, you can do them all--which will take ten minutes or less…

Any of These 3 Monday Morning Micro-Challenges Will Make You Highly Productive All Week... BY: Minda Zetlin
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What It’s Like to Experience Sexism as a Donor ...

A few years ago, a young colleague invited me to a party to meet his boss, executive director of a global nonprofit and a former scion of Wall Street. Some cursory research beforehand revealed that we had a mutual acquaintance who served on a board with the nonprofit leader. When introduced, I brought up the connection, but he displayed no interest. Instead he talked about his volunteer work and tossed around household names like confetti. As he spoke, he scanned the room without so much as a sideways word of inquiry…

What It’s Like to Experience Sexism as a Donor By: Isa Catto
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$68 trillion is about to change hands in the US

The biggest wealth transfer in history is about to happen — and it's now expected to be more than double what many thought it was. It's estimated that 45 million U.S. households will transfer $68 trillion in wealth over the next 25 years, according to Asher Cheses, a research analyst and lead author of a new report from financial services research firm Cerulli Associates…

$68 trillion is about to change hands in the US

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What It’s Like to Experience Sexism as a Donor By: Isa Catto

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What It’s Like to Experience Sexism as a Donor By: Isa Catto

A few years ago, a young colleague invited me to a party to meet his boss, executive director of a global nonprofit and a former scion of Wall Street. Some cursory research beforehand revealed that we had a mutual acquaintance who served on a board with the nonprofit leader. When introduced, I brought up the connection, but he displayed no interest. Instead he talked about his volunteer work and tossed around household names like confetti. As he spoke, he scanned the room without so much as a sideways word of inquiry…

60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days By Marelisa Fabrega

60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100 Days By Marelisa Fabrega

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to make drastic changes in order to notice an improvement in the quality of your life. At the same time, you don’t need to wait a long time in order to see the measurable results that come from taking positive action. All you have to do is take small steps, and take them consistently, for a period of 100 days…

Exceptional Wealth: Clear Strategies to Protect and Grow Your Net Worth by Mark Tepper

Exceptional Wealth: Clear Strategies to Protect and Grow Your Net Worth by Mark Tepper

Are you a high net worth individual? Then the wealth management rules are different for you.

Mark Tepper rightly assures us that we should all consider ourselves wealthy if we have the resources to live the lives we want to live without compromise. However, if you fall into one of his higher-net-worth categories, you will find that Exceptional Wealth is speaking directly to you.

Tepper, author of the acclaimed Walk Away Wealthy, stresses that if you are someone…

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich By Sam Wilkin

Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich By Sam Wilkin

Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!)

From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters, strategies, and sacrifices reveal how the wealthiest did it, usually by a passion for finding loopholes, working around bureaucratic systems, and creating obstacles to competitors…

Copy of A National Imperative: Joining Forces to Strengthen Human Services in America By George Morris and Dylan Roberts of Oliver Wyman

Copy of A National Imperative: Joining Forces to Strengthen Human Services in America By George Morris and Dylan Roberts of Oliver Wyman

This groundbreaking report focuses on human services community-based organizations, their economic and social impact, and the need to preserve and strengthen their critical role in building foundational supports that contribute to the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities…

The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age Hardcover By David Callahan

The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age Hardcover By David Callahan

Favorite Book Club of the Year (so far)

While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second Gilded Age into influence. He shows how this elite works behind the scenes on education, the environment, science, LGBT rights, and many other issues…

$30 trillion is about to change hands in the US By MacKenzie Sigalos

$30 trillion is about to change hands in the US By MacKenzie Sigalos

There's a lot of money about to change hands in the U.S. — $30 trillion to be exact.

Baby boomers are the wealthiest generation in American history — and they're about to pass down those riches over the next few decades. It's the so-called great wealth transfer. But that exchange might not be as large as you had hoped if you don't take the right estate-planning steps…

Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country Hardcover By Alex Cuadros

Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in an American Country Hardcover By Alex Cuadros

When Bloomberg News invited the young American journalist Alex Cuadros to report on Brazil’s emerging class of billionaires at the height of the historic Brazilian boom, he was poised to cover two of the biggest business stories of our time: how the giants of the developing world were triumphantly taking their place at the center of global capitalism, and how wealth inequality was changing societies everywhere. The billionaires of Brazil and their massive fortunes resided at the very top of their country’s…

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business Hardcover By Rana Foroohar

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business Hardcover By Rana Foroohar

In looking at the forces that brought our current administration to power one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum.

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland

There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Alarmingly, the greatest income gap is not between the 1 percent and the 99 percent, but within the wealthiest 1 percent of our nation--as the merely wealthy are left behind by the rapidly expanding fortunes of the new global super-rich. Forget the 1 percent; Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at break-neck speed...

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Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist organisation By A.L.

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Black Lives Matter is not a terrorist organisation By A.L.

n 2012 George Zimmerman, a neighbourhood-watch volunteer, shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old boy in Sanford, Florida. His acquittal a year later led Alicia Garza, an activist, to post on Facebook: “Black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter, Black Lives Matter.” Soon after, those last three words went viral, after several high-profile killings of African Americans at the hands of police. Black Lives Matter developed into a movement against police violence and racism, with more than 40 chapters in four countries.

Almost as soon as it began, Black Lives Matter met with a backlash. Protest slogans, such as All Lives…

Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential By Mika Brzezinski

Grow Your Value: Living and Working to Your Full Potential By Mika Brzezinski

A woman who wants to be successful must make sacrifices, but how can she determine which ones she'll be happy with five, ten, twenty years from now?

Mika Brzezinski, Morning Joe co-host and New York Times best-selling author of Knowing Your Value,has built a career on inspiring women to assess and then obtain their true value in the workplace. In her books and in her conferences, Mika gives women the tools necessary to advocate for themselves and their financial futures. But that is only the first step; once you know your value, you need to grow it—both professionally and personally…

Study: Women may earn more than $1 million less than men over the course of a career By Courtney Connley

Study: Women may earn more than $1 million less than men over the course of a career By Courtney Connley

In 1971, the U.S. Congress declared August 26 as Women's Equality Day, according to the National Women's History Project. The day celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote. Each year, the president is requested to issue a proclamation honoring this day around the country.

While much progress has been made since the amendment was passed, women are reminded every day that there is still a lot more work to be done before equality is fully reached. A new study conducted by financial services firm Merrill Lynch and…

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World By Anand Giridharadas

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World By Anand Giridharadas

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.

Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can--except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it. We see how they rebrand themselves as saviors of the poor; how they lavishly reward "thought leaders" who redefine "change" in winner-friendly ways; and how they…

Google, Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree By Courtney Connley

Google, Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree By Courtney Connley

The economy continues to be a friendly place for job seekers today, and not just for the ultra-educated — economists are predicting ever-improving prospects for workers without a degree as well.

Recently, job-search site Glassdoor compiled a list of 15 top employers that have said they no longer require applicants to have a college degree. Companies like Google, Apple, IBM and EY are all in this group.

In 2017, IBM's vice president of talent Joanna Daley told CNBC Make It that about 15 percent of her company's U.S. hires don't have a four-year degree…

College Donors Are Getting Picky By Janet Lorin

College Donors Are Getting Picky By Janet Lorin

In 2015, a gift to the University of Chicago merited a rock star’s welcome. “What kind of world do you want?” sang Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik, his voice echoing across the century-old campus theater before a crowd of 1,100. The event feted the Pearson family, whose foundation—founded by Tom Pearson, an Oklahoma coal magnate—was giving $100 million for a global center for peacemaking.

Now the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts has…

34 things you should remove from your résumé immediately By Jacquelyn Smith and Rachel Gillett

34 things you should remove from your résumé immediately By Jacquelyn Smith and Rachel Gillett

Hiring managers rarely have the time or resources to look at each résumé closely, and they typically spend about  six seconds on their initial "fit/no fit" decision.

If you want to pass that test, you need to have some solid qualifications — and the perfect résumé to highlight them. 

Here are 34 things you should strike from your résumé right now…