Indispensable wisdom from a financial phenom and his team.
Entrepreneurial counsel from the celebrated “Rich Dad Advisors.”
Kiyosaki (Wisdom from Rich Dad, Poor Dad for Teens, 2016, etc.) turned his bestselling 1997 book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, into an international brand. Twenty years after its publication, the book has spawned updates, countless variations, and an entire team of advisers who are prominently featured in this book, which is a treasure trove for entrepreneurs. The author introduces his team and a concept called “the 8 Integrities of a Business” (anchored by the concepts of “Team,” “Leadership,” and “Mission”) in a burgeoning work that’s as much a clever sampler of the Rich Dad Advisors books as it is a pep talk for budding business owners. Part 1 pitches the importance of building a team and nicely sets up the book’s objective and novel structure. Part 2 is an ingeniously woven collection of biographical sketches of the 10 team members, accompanied by essays penned by each as well as chapter excerpts from their books. (Every team member has written at least one book under the Rich Dad Advisors imprimatur; they include real estate entrepreneur Ken McElroy and Corporate Direct owner Garret Sutton.) The essays, covering such crucial topics as branding, cash flow, investing in assets, and raising capital, support Part 3. This final section offers an engaging chart that represents the combination of the “8 Integrities” followed by a succinct explanation of the role of each element. This work provides publicity for Kiyosaki’s team and, not incidentally, promotes their individual book titles. Still, the coy sales proposition doesn’t diminish the value of the book’s content; on the contrary, the sound counsel, doled out in little nuggets, is akin to a whirlwind consulting session. Highly motivated entrepreneurs with short attention spans will be able to easily sample the carefully curated topics and see how they all fit together at the end. They’re sure to internalize Kiyosaki’s fundamental message: “My team is much more important than money, because without them, I probably would not have any money.”
Indispensable wisdom from a financial phenom and his team.Pub Date: May 31, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-937832-87-2
Page Count: 448
Publisher: RDA Press, LLC.
Review Posted Online: Nov. 14, 2017
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
A suspenseful, user-friendly account of Microsoft's five-year effort to develop Windows NT (for new technology). Wall Street Journal correspondent Zachary delineates the blood, toil, tears, and sweat required to produce a breakthrough operating system that would not only work on all available personal computers but also allow customers to retain familiar applications programs. Throughout his accessible text, Zachary tries to keep readers in the loop. He provides illuminating reminders of how operating systems (which control a processor's basic functions) differ from applications software (the visible programs that retrieve information, maintain databases, prepare documents for printing, and otherwise satisfy human needs). While NT, which reached the marketplace last summer, has yet to achieve critical sales mass, the author leaves little doubt that the $150 million project yielded its creator a host of payoffs: by advancing the state of the networking art, defining the shape of software to come, and giving Microsoft (which last month settled potentially troublesome antitrust charges) an inside track on the interactive information highway. The bulk of the narrative is devoted to anecdotal reportage on how a consequential enterprise managed to harness its varied, volatile, very human resources (many of whom had become independently wealthy by cashing in options on the company's common stock) and meet the self-imposed schedule for NT's introduction. Covered as well are the time and technical tradeoffs made in the course of an undertaking whose final features included more compromises than indisputably correct answers. Nor does the author ignore the human costs of economic and scientific success in his reckoning of the NT balance sheet. An engrossing and instructive case history of programming under fire on the front lines of software technology. (Author tour)
Pub Date: Oct. 17, 1994
ISBN: 0-02-935671-7
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Free Press
Review Posted Online: June 24, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1994
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Useful, credible and smart.
A handy guide to personal finance and a convincing argument for improved financial literacy.
Secrets is a near-encyclopedic compilation of financial advice from Mincher, a self-made multimillionaire. (He made his first million by the age of 25.) And though much of his wisdom derives solely from his own experience, the seven-figure investment portfolio that backs it up is difficult to deny. In many ways, the story of how the author made his money is as interesting as the financial counsel he provides. A born businessman, he formed his first company in high school and won awards as a young entrepreneur. He earned his fortune as the owner of a charter-bus service and, later, as a regional telecom baron. Mincher offers brief chapters on just about every conceivable area of financial inquiry, from credit checks to buying a car to investing in the stock market. His volume works more effectively as a reference than a how-to to be read in a few sittings. But as such it is very valuable indeed; clearly organized and helpfully broken up into bite-size sections, the information is easy to digest. Underpinning it all is the author’s fervent belief that most people need to know more about their money. Mincher has an autodidact’s ambivalence toward traditional education; a college drop-out, he preaches “street smarts” and inveighs a bit too frequently against odd targets like high-school calculus in his introduction. Nonetheless, his call for more and better financial education rings true, especially as subprime lenders have recently wreaked havoc on world economic markets by preying on the financially non-savvy.
Useful, credible and smart.Pub Date: Nov. 26, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-9797003-0-9
Page Count: 426
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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