Monthly Archives: July 2016

Early Retirement: The truth about saving 10% for ten years

Posted on July 01, 2016 by Guest Blogger in Top Of Book

Saving 10% percent for ten years could help with early retirement if you are using an investment advisor who capitalizes on good investments. But the plan doesn't yield much interest if investments are only in bank savings accounts. TopOfBook recently rated King Financial Coporation in Concord, NC and Durso Financial Planners in Charlotte, NC as the top two financial advisors. But what about those of us who are starting from the beginning?

Here's what to do if you don't have enough money to hire a financial advisor

Retirement planning is a strategic discipline practiced by CFP™ practitioners and financial planners with the ability to create an investment portfolio with your long-term objectives in mind. Investors need to be realistic, but they also need to be aware of unique investment opportunities which could yield higher interest.

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How to argue with manners

I was trying to argue with manners during a panel forum when my mic stopped working. “Is the mic working? Can you hear me in the back?” I asked loudly. Someone in the back of the room screamed at the top of his voice, “I can’t hear you talk!” At which time a lady in the front row piped up, “Hey fella, that’s perfect! Let’s switch seats now.” A great communicator’s success, to a large degree, comes from an ability to argue with manners and without causing undue fatigue or frustration to those participating. The level of persistent disagreement around public policy today is disheartening but unlikely to abate. The constant vitriol is creating problems and enormous challenges in our communities – challenges that are disruptive to business, stable government, safety and to civil order. But in all this disorder and frustration, lies opportunity. My own skills have been honed to argue with manners and respect. I have come a more
How women in Greenville, SC textile mills inspired revolution

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New paradigm: sell it, build it or get fired?

“Employees should be coding or selling. Otherwise, fire them!” So goes a new managerial dictum blustered by managers keen to pass the vitriol as some sort of clever distributive work policy to be followed by their employees. I first heard the sell it, build it or get fired quip as part of a “motivational” speech delivered by a browbeating CEO to our division, all of us looking for leadership to overcome a quarter of disappointing earnings. But while his aim was to motivate, the cheeky threat had many of us looking for new jobs the next week despite the fact he was full of hot hair. He was eventually fired when his perennial bullying and your-with-me-or-against-me style management was realized to be contrary to fundamental egalitarian leadership policies on which the company prided itself. But not before much of the company’s talent already fled elsewhere. It’s the or get fired part that misses the mark. It hints at a style more

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