Praise for Navigating the Financial Blogosphere

“Navigating the Financial Blogosphere is the most enjoyable personal finance book I’ve ever read. I read it cover to cover within an afternoon, and I didn’t want to put it down. It’s fresh, practical, and broad in its topic coverage and should be on the top of every person’s reading list. Russell Bailyn is a super-talented rising star.”
-Matthew D. Hutcheson, Independent Pension Fiduciary, expert Congressional witness on retirement plan economics

“Financial information on the Internet has exploded in volume; the challenge is to find what’s useful and reliable. Russell Bailyn’s book does an excellent job of presenting important personal finance topics in a clear and digestible form, and pointing readers to a wealth of high-quality sources on the Internet. Navigating the Financial Blogosphere is browsable, fun, and very useful.”
-David Jackson, founder and CEO, SeekingAlpha.com

“Russell Bailyn not only explains financial decision making, but like a good research librarian, he tells you where to go on the Web for more information. You’ll want to be close to your computer as you read this book.”
-Joseph Hurley, founder and CEO, Savingforcollege.com LLC

 

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An innovative guide to how great nonprofits achieve extraordinary social impact. What makes great nonprofits great? Authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant searched for the answer over several years, employing a rigorous research methodology which derived from books on for-profits like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact—from Habitat for Humanity to the Heritage Foundation—and distilled six counterintuitive practices that these organizations use to change the world. This book has lessons for all readers interested in creating significant social change, including nonprofit managers, donors and volunteers.

Leslie R. Crutchfield (Washington, D.C.) is a managing director of Ashoka and research grantee of the Aspen Institute. Heather McLeod Grant (Palo Alto, CA) is a nonprofit consultant and advisor to Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and the Stanford Center for Social Innovation. Crutchfield and Grant were co-founding editors of Who Cares, a national magazine reaching 50,000 readers in circulation between 1993-2000.

 

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In this interview,  Allan Cox challenges us to understand the fundamental forces underlying our behavior. These are forces that lead to either success or failure. Since these forces are fundamental, they don’t apply just to business, but to all relationships. Your Inner CEO isn’t a book that you simply read, it’s one you live. Living it will not only maximize your potential for success, it will provide a better life for all those who surround you.” Dr. Robert Genetski, Economist and Publisher, Classical Principles

If you are a board member or report to a board, you need to listen to this interview.  “Allan Cox gets it right on all accounts and gives great advice on how to make potentially difficult relationships both collaborative and productive.” Howard Behar, Board of Directors of Starbucks, Gap, Anna’s Linens

“Allan Cox knows and shows what it takes to become a superior CEO.” William A. Roper, Jr., President & CEO, Verisign Inc.

“Allan Cox helps nurture people and corporations the way perceptive executives treat a great brand.” Wally Olins, Co-Founder & Chairman of London-based Saffron Brand Consultants; author of On Brand

 

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This groundbreaking volume provides the first sweeping view of followers in relation to their leaders, deliberately departing from the leader-centric approach that dominates our thinking about leadership and management. Barbara Kellerman argues that, over time, followers have played increasingly vital roles. For two key reasons, this trend is now accelerating. Followers are becoming more important, and leaders less. Through gripping stories about a range of people and places–from multinational corporations such as Merck, to Nazi Germany, to the American military after 9/11–Kellerman makes key distinctions among five different types of followers: Isolates, Bystanders, Participants, Activists, and Diehards. And she explains how they relate not only to their leaders but also to each other. Thanks to “Followership,” we can finally appreciate the ways in which those with relatively fewer sources of power, authority, and influence are consequential. Moreover, they are getting bolder and more strategic. As Kellerman makes crystal clear, to fixate on leaders at the expense of followers is to do so at our peril. The latter are every bit as important as the former, which makes this book required reading for superiors and subordinates alike.

 

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