Professional's Guide to Retirement Financial Management: 2001 (Professional's Guide to Retirement Financial Management W/CD)

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Invaluable planning reference.......1999-11-08

Robinson does a great job at laying out all the various factors to be considered in serving this segnment of the retirement market. This book belongs in every serious planner's library.

Highly recommended for planners serving older clients........1999-11-05

As noted in the book's preface, nearly 40 million people are already in the age range of 55-70, a time when one's options for retirement planning become somewhat limited. And more than 2 million baby boomers will join them each year. Clearly, this is an excellent market for planners.

Author Robinson shows how to serve this large and growing market with what he calls a new specialty: retirement financial management practice. And he does an excellent job pulling together various considerations that need to be taken into account: financial projections, determining and maximizing social security, determining and maximizing retirement plan benefits, successful investment strategy for this age group, reducing investment risk, tax rules, and what to do if there isn't enough cash flow.

The author does an excellent job of explaining the various areas clearly. And the included forms are invaluable!

A great, one-of-a-kind resource.......1999-11-04

A great resource which fills a void in retirement planning coverage. This book is exactly what I needed to complete my retirement planning library.

As an attorney with clients at or near retirement age, I searched long and hard for a resource that would help me better serve those clients for whom it it was too late to do any real planning FOR retirement. With Robinson's well-written and researched book, I can confidently and efficiently serve this client base, from calculating whether they have enough to live on, to maximizing retirement benefits, to developing and implementing strategies for maximizing and protecting their nest egg and increase their cash flow as necessary.

And as a busy practitioner, I really appreciate the many forms and checklists included on the accompanying CD.

I wish this resource had been available many years ago when I first opened my practice.

Don't Waste Your Money!.......1999-10-07

As a "professional's" guide to retirement financial planning, this book misses the mark. Not only does it fail to cover Substantially Equal Periodic Payment (SEPP)provisions for early (penalty-free) IRA distributions, but it includes an incorrect formula for calculating taxable equivalent yields!

I have seen "beginner" books that contain more meaningful and helpful retirement financial planning techniques than this extremely over-priced book.

Miracles at Work: Building Your Business From The Soul Up
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If you want a values-based business...

What I wish I had known earlier in my life.

Good For Work or Life

Has value for all (not just those seeking to start a business)!

The Way Work Should Be

Miracles at Work: Building Your Business From The Soul Up

Manufacturer: Life Without Limits Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0976429608

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Discover the 10 Principles of Upside-Down Thinking and 10 Practices of Business Success that are transforming the way we do business. John Adams was fired during the Air Traffic Controllers strike of 1981. But for years he had been nurturing the dream of starting his own business. By 1992, John was awarded the Hartford, CT Chamber of Commerce Small Business Leader of the Year Award. By 1996, Adams and Adams Building Services had grown to $3.5 million in annual sales employing 350 members. That is when John sold his company to share with others the unique Principles of Upside-Down Thinking and Practices of Business Success you will discover in this book. He is so sure you will find them helpful that he guarantees your satisfaction or hell give YOUR MONEY BACK on the price of the book! The Principles of Upside-Down Thinking: Great Purpose Builds A Great Team, Embrace The Moment, Change Your Mind, Change Your World, Let Spirit Drive, Make More Than Money, Judge Less, Profit More, Break Out Of Victim Prison, Your Business Is Not Of This World, Give Away The Business, Project Your Inner Business. The Practices of Business Success: Have A Love Affair, Focus For Success, Manifest Your Destiny, Love Your Way To Wealth, Take The High Road To Profit, Conquer Your Fear Of Success, Open Doors The Easy Way, Senses Mean Business, Unify Through "We Power", Vitalize Your Workforce. Visit us at: http://www.miraclesatwork.com or call 860-437-0755 for more details or order here at amazon.com with a MONEY BACK guarantee.

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If you want a values-based business..........2006-09-18

John's book is a wonderful guide for anyone in business. Not only does it present a different way of doing business, but it also provides suggestions about living life on a higher plane. His book combines the wisdom of A Course in Miracles, The Artist's Way, 12 Steps, Wayne Dyer, The Four Agreements, and other spiritual guides, with his own experiences in the business world. The result is a blueprint for starting and running a values-based business. When I read it I felt inspired spiritually as well as grounded in strength and reality. I have recently left the "security" of teaching in public schools to start my own business. I am making new choices in my life based on this book. John's book is truly an inspiration and a book I will read more than once. Thank you, John!
Tricia Matthews, Vibe distributor

What I wish I had known earlier in my life........2006-08-30

After I read this I wanted to go out and start a business even though I am retired. ThenI discovered that these principles work just as well in my relationships and in my everyday life. wnat a gift John Adams has given us.

Good For Work or Life.......2006-05-27

With this book, John Adams gives us principles and practices that can serve us not only in our professional lives but in our personal lives as well. In fact, Adams recognizes that there should indeed be no separation of values between life and work, and offers what amounts to a handbook of spiritual practice for our whole selves.

Has value for all (not just those seeking to start a business)!.......2006-03-15

Loved MIRACLES AT WORK by John A. Adams, a self-taught entrepreneur who built
a $3.5 million cleaning company after being fired as an
air traffic controller with the Federal Aviation Administration.

He then sold this business in 1996 to follow his real passion
of helping others by writing this book and beginning Life Without
Limits, a Connecticut-based business development company . . . he
now travels throughout the country sharing his message that you
should "Remember . . . always expect miracles because . . .
something wonderful is about to happen!"

My only complaint with the book is its subtitle: BUILDING YOUR
BUSINESS FROM THE SOUL UP . . . it implies that this is
primarily to be read by those looking to begin a business, and
methinks that it is so much more than that . . . I see it is a self-help
book that will inspire anybody seeking to fulfill his or her potential.

While there are many useful business examples, I found there were
even more valuable tidbits taken from Adams' life . . . I was inspired
by how he was able to get past his bad times and not let them get
him down . . . also, I liked how he learned from virtually every
experience he has encountered.

Among the many insights that I gained from reading MIRACLES AT
WORK were the following:

* Ask yourself whether your "Crazymaker" [a term coined by Julia
Cameron in THE ARTIST'S WAY] have not helped you, in some way,
to become a better individual. Mine have. Think about those in your
life against whom you hold a grudge. Then release yourself from the
burden of resentment and anger you carry by forgiving them. Then
begin a process of self-forgiveness and start to enjoy a feeling of
liberation. "Not so easy?" Okay, don't forgive them--bless them,
as Pope John Paul did, as he faced his would-be assassin in his
prison cell. The Pontiff knows that the power of forgiveness lies in
releasing your heart to God by seeing the goodness in every human being.

* When Admiral Hyman Rickover was asked about his climb from
obscurity to Chief Naval Officer in charge of nuclear operations, he
simply pointed to those in great need, the imprisoned, the homeless,
the poor, and said, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." We are
blessed to be in a place where we are building our own business. That
is Grace. Grace also comes into our lives by helping others.

* Love is the most powerful energy in the universe--much greater than
all the destructive force our egos could hope to muster. All these
Principles and Practices depend upon love. It is the starting point,
the meaning and purpose for being and the solution to our most
pressing problems.

Am amazing thing occurs when you give love. Because it follows
the spiritual laws of the universe rather than the dictates of this
finite world, it increases. The more you give away, the more you
have to give.

The Way Work Should Be.......2006-01-26

John Adams has not only written an important book -- he has written something inspiring which is also a lot of fun to read. As a magazine editor, I'm deluged with books and getting "important, inspiring and fun" in one volume is no easy undertaking.

Team Up For Success: Building Teams in the Workplace

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Team Up For Success: Building Teams in the Workplace
Charles M. Cadwell , and American Management Institute Staff
Manufacturer: American Media Publishing
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ASIN: B000U0H0SK

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Many organizations are discovering that teams hold the key to increasing creativity and productivity. Team Up For Success shows you how teams can create new and innovative solutions that will take your organization into the future. CONTENTS: 1) Why Teams 2) Team Member Roles and Responsibilities 3) Getting Organized 4) Becoming a Team Leader 5) Working Together 6) Team Decision Making 7) Wrapping It Up 8) Handling Difficult Team Situations

Team Up for Success: Building Teams in the Workplace (Ami How-to Series)

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Team Up for Success: Building Teams in the Workplace (Ami How-to Series)
Charles M. Cadwell , and Karen M. Miller
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This introduction to dynamical systems theory treats both discrete dynamical systems and continuous systems. Driven by numerous examples from a broad range of disciplines and requiring only knowledge of ordinary differential equations, the text emphasizes applications and simulation utilizing MATLAB®, Simulink®, and the Symbolic Math toolbox.

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Focusing on the twentieth century, this collection of essays by leading international experts offers an up-to-date, comprehensive history and analysis of multiple cases of genocide and genocidal acts. The book contains studies of the Armenian genocide; the victims of Stalinist terror; the Holocaust; and Imperial Japan. Contributors explore colonialism and address the fate of the indigenous peoples in Africa, North America, and Australia. In addition, extensive coverage of the post-1945 period includes the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, Bali, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, East Timor, and Guatemala. Robert Gellately is Professor and Strassler Family Chair for the Study of Holocaust History at Clark University, where he teaches a variety of courses in modern German history, modern European history and the history of the Holocaust with a concentration on the study of Nazi Germany and the Gestapo. In Backing Hitler (Oxford, 2001), Gellately uses new evidence to demolish long-held beliefs about what ordinary Germans knew of the concentration camps. His internationally acclaimed book, The Gestapo and German Society (Oxford, 1990) challenges conventional concepts of the Gestapo and daily life in Nazi Germany. He has won numerous fellowships, and awards, most recently from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. Ben Kiernan is A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University and Convenor of the Yale East Timor Project. Kiernan is the author of The Pol Pot Regime (Yale, 1996), How Pol Pot Came to Power (Verso Books, 1985) and three other works and over a hundred scholarly articles on Southeast Asia and the history of genocide. Choice called him "the most knowledgeable observer of Cambodia anywhere in the Western world." Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge "indicted" and then "sentenced" him as an "arch war criminal." Kiernan is a member of the Editorial Boards of Human Rights Review, the Journal of Human Rights, and the Journal of Genocide Research. He is currently writing a global history of genocide since 1500.

Customer Reviews:

Good book about genocide, bad book about individual genocides.......2006-01-14

If you are interested in the study of genocide and theories of how a genocidal regime may rationalize its policies, then this book is a good choice for you. It's chock full of scholarly articles on theories concerning these matters, as well as how genocide should be defined, and other such intellectual material. If you're more interested in learning the details of individual genocides: how they were carried out, in-depth histories and case studies, then this is book will provide nothing for you to sink your teeth into. The articles within it frequently reference statistics from actual genocides and compare various aspects of different genocidal regimes, but never make any attempt to go beneath the surface. You'll learn nothing new from this book about any genocide that you couldn't have learned from just doing a Google search. Even the articles that are about specific events, like the killings in Guatemala, are mostly just full of heady social theory with statistics and facts concerning Guatemala as a backdrop. They never go into the specifics of how the killings were carried out, or specific incidents, or anything that might breathe just a little bit of life and humanity into the stuffy academic monologue. You may want to read this book if you're preparing to write a research paper on genocide, but it's definitely not something most people would read for pleasure.

Crimes Against Humanity: A Historical Perspective

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Courage, Persistence, and Faith
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Keeping the Faith

Crimes Against Humanity: A Historical Perspective
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The State Boys Rebellion

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Courage, Persistence, and Faith.......2004-07-31

Ricci's CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY is an essential read for anyone with a relative, friend, or client who suffers from mental retardation. Holding nothing back, Ricci recounts the horrendously inhumane conditions of Belchertown State School in Massachusetts during the 1950s and '60s, his formation of an advocacy group to support the retarded and their families, and a 20-year landmark federal court class-action suit to secure rights and protections for mentally retarded citizens. A work of courage, persistence, and faith.

Keeping the Faith.......2004-06-24

This important work is an unvarnished first-person account of one man's lifelong battle to secure rights for the mentally retarded citizens of Massachusetts. With no holds barred, Ricci chronicles the plight of the mentally retarded in Massachusetts during the second half of the twentieth century. In a style reflective of his unrelenting advocacy, Ricci recounts the painful decision he and his wife made to place their six-year-old son at Belchertown State School in the 1950s, the horrific medieval conditions he discovered and exposed in that institution, his founding of Advocacy Network, that organization's fight against uncaring state bureaucrats, and their hard-won, landmark federal court order to improve the lives of the mentally retarded. Crimes Against Humanity is a must-read for anyone with a social conscience.

Keeping the Faith.......2004-06-10

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