A low point in my career came when I worked at a small communications agency. After losing a large client, everyone had to work harder and find new revenue. The clients that I did have were enmeshed in stressful public controversies (which was why they needed communications help). On top of that, I was working far from family and the ...
The Big Beautiful Bill may have a big but not so beautiful impact on corporate giving next year. In 2026, corporations will have new limits on their charitable giving. Currently, they can deduct 10% of their taxable income, but next year the first 1% will be excluded. Subchapter S corporations have long been allowed more generous charitable deductions, allowing owners ...
According to a Gevura Fund survey, 20% of American workers have been treated poorly or harassed over the past year for their religion. The Equal Employment Opportunity Center, however, is counting on changing that statistic. EEOC Acting Chair Andrea Lucas has a personal interest in this subject, because her father was fired once for speaking honestly at work about his ...
In his book, “Why Your Work Matters,” Tom Nelson recounts the Exodus story of God’s anointing on two men – Bezalel and Oholiab – for special service. “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘See, I have chosen Bezalel… and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills—” ...
According to Dr. Ben Talei, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, face lifts for technology guys have increased fivefold over the past five years. A related Wall Street Journal article emphasized that since technology is considered a young person’s profession, many men in their 30s and 40s are now getting face lifts to beat the signs of aging. I understand many ...
The CEO knew that his company was too small to survive in its industry, so he needed to find a merger partner or acquiring company to help the company reach the needed scale in the marketplace. He worked with bankers and consultants to pursue opportunities, but one criterion was his foremost concern: that the employment, salaries, and benefits of current ...
Michael desired to cash in on some of his gains in his stock portfolio. But if he did, he knew selling stock would trigger significant tax consequences. Michael usually makes a significant cash contribution to UBN at year end, so he decided shrewdly to combine the two transactions by gifting stock instead. The result was Michael avoided paying capital gains ...
Peter Mallouk, founder of Creative Planning, shared, at an event I recently attended, a lesson he learned about maintaining a strong corporate culture. Peter used to exhaust every option for keeping a troublesome employee. That is until a team of employees approached Peter about a problem employee. Peter had refused to fire this troubling employee, harming the entire team. Peter ...
In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that states could install legal online gambling. Since that time, legal sports gambling has grown from one state to 38 states, and from $440 million to over $13 billion in revenue. With that much money involved, and the unsavory characters gambling attracts, the recent NBA gambling scandal shouldn’t be a big surprise. The driver ...
The Giving Tuesday concept was launched in 2012 by Henry Timms of the 92nd Street Y in New York City and the United Nations Foundation. Timms desired to change the narrative from the consumerism that came with Black Friday and Cyber Monday to generosity. The result is an international movement of organizations leveraging Giving Tuesday as a launch to the ...
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