Live Rich: Everything You Need to Know to Be Your Own Boss, Whoever You Work for

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You've heard the career advice, "Do what you love and the money will follow." That's bad advice, according to Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine. The coauthors of the surprise bestseller Die Broke are back with another book of irreverent wisdom. Where Die Broke offered a fresh approach to dealing with money, Live Rich is full of equally original ideas about careers.

Pollan and Levine advocate a kind of enlightened selfishness. Their first rule: work for yourself, even if you are someone else's employee. Identify your own best interests and pursue them aggressively. Be mercenary. And don't sacrifice money for work you love. For love, get a dog. Less cynical than they might first appear, Pollan and Levine are the savvy uncles you wish you had, who share their hardheaded street smarts without telling you what to do. The bulk of Live Rich is a compendium of tips on everything from hiring an accountant to picking stationery. Readers should come away with at least a few good ideas and perhaps with a changed perspective on the relation of work and life. --Barry Mitzman

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In his recent national bestseller, Die Broke, Stephen Pollan introduced a radical new strategy for spending and saving money in today's unpredictable financial environment. The natural result of Die Brokeindeed the reason to die broke in the first placeis the subject of this new volume.

If Die Broke is about how we spend, save, and invest our money, Live Rich is the other side of the equation, the earning side of things. In it, Stephen Pollan shares the compelling observation that living rich has less to do with new worth or income stream and everything to do with freedom. The most powerful form of financial freedom comes from working for yourself (whoever your boss may be).

Live Rich says all that's standing in your way of earning enough to live the life of your dreams is your relationship to money. Act rationally rather than emotionally when it comes to your income, and you'll find money can buy you happiness. The four tenets of the Live Rich philosophy, simply stated, are:

Make Money. Too many of us have been fed the line that "work isn't necessarily about making money." Tell that to Visa next time they send you a bill.

Don't grow, change. Be ready to change your work paradigm on a moment's notice, to morph from career to career several times as conditionsand youchange.

Take Charge. In the twenty-first century, you must become proactive and start taking measured risks.

Become a mercenary. Think for yourself as a free agent, responsible for your own security and always on the lookout for the next great job.

Live Rich provides an explanation of Stephen Pollan's radical workplace philosophy as well as a detailed A to Z action planfrom "accountants" and "advertisement" to "Web sites" and "working capital"that allows readers to apply the philosophy to every facet of their working loves and truly Live Rich.

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant truthful and filled with good advice.......2005-09-18

Love this guy- he tells it like it is. When charismatic company ceos tell us that the corporate experience is not about money, it's about "Love" ; one needs authors like Mark Pollan more than ever . When some VPs are receiving hefty paychecks- is their experience of love sweeter than my own I wonder? It's the individual employees responsibility to get the "love" they deserve..We all use a different yardstick to measure value - and this author points out a standard that should be at the top of the list- hint : it's green
We live in a hypocritical world folks - at least this author tells the truth.
Another thing I loved about the book was the aknowledgement that despite diversity training, age discrimination is widely practiced- take those dates off your resumes the Author advises. Brilliant , I intend to read his entire repetoire

Get smart about money so you can live rich.......2005-06-28

Well, I picked up this book thinking I'd find some clever way to buy a BMW and a townhouse without really having to pay for it. Turns out, Stephen Pollan's "Live Rich" is not about fast money but financial and emotional intelligence.

The richness of "Live Rich" truly comes across in part one where Pollan explains how we are not living in the financially stable past, but a turbulent present that demands that we can re-create ourselves, and re-market ourselves for the chameleon economy in which we live.

Perhaps Pollan's most novel advice is not just to take a promotion for the sake of money, but to take the job opportunity that requires you to learn a new skill set, even if it means less pay. This counsel goes against the idea that we are living in a highly specialized world and the more deep and narrow your skill set, the more appealing and valuable your skill set.

But as Pollan writes, you can't rely on an employer, a job consultant or even "Live Rich" to tell you how to prepare yourself to lead a financially rewarding career. You must educate and create yourself as Pollan explains.

However, part two of "Live Rich" contained chapters too short and too broad to prove productive for rich living. I imagine chapters such as "Advertising" and "Job Interviews" are included only to encourage the reader to seek out other books or experts to educate them in particular areas that can directly impact their financial success.

Worth a read!.......2005-01-26

This book is controversial, but it is actually pretty good. If you can get beyond some of the surface-level disagreements you might have with Mr. Pollan, you will find his work insightful and that you agree with him more than you disagree with him.

I enjoyed the read. I liked the "theory" part of the book better than the "pratical" part. I wish he had made the "theory" part a bit longer.

I don't agree with everything that the author says, but I can't discount the value of the book. It is worth a read and will give you some real good advice without sentimental fluff.

Of course, this book is a career-oriented book, so if you are looking how to "live rich" religiously, philosophically, metaphysically, or whatever, look elsewhere. Most criticisms of Mr. Pollan's viewpoint on money is because the people criticizing his work are coming from a metaphysical or spiritual angle, while this book merely instructs on how to live richly in sense of a career. And he does that make it clear throughout the book (in telling people to use their career to get money and their other aspects of life to get other things).

I guess someone may accuse Mr. Pollan of advocating overly strict compartmentalisation of life. I can understand that point of view. Even if you are against Mr. Pollan's ideas in this sense, I suggest you still read this book. It will challenge you and is especially good for entreprenuers, who often get too involved in making their business big and "successful" without remembering about the bottom line--for them. This book is worthwhile on that account alone!

Money is Good, Ignorance Isn't.......2004-06-22

A number of negative reviews of this book mention Pollan's affinity for making money. They also point out that he may be heartless, cold-blooded, un-loyal, and uncaring because money drives the theme behind lvining rich.

Welcome, finally, to corporate America people. The fact is, as hard as it may be to digest, work IS about money and has been since we stopped bartering centuries ago. Corporations are loyal to employees insofar as they can make money with them (note the recent issues with wholesale offshoring of technology jobs...do you really think other countries do it better than the richest, most educated populace in the world? No, but they CAN do it cheaper). Companies are loyal to their bottom line. They don't cry over laying you off, restructuring your job, right-sizing, or anything else you read about everyday in the business section.

I happen to like my job...to Pollan and Levine, I'm one of those people that should consider themselves fortunate because I do gain some emotional satisfaction from the work I do; however, after reading the book and agreeing with the authors that emotional satisfaction can be derived from many, many other things but money is acquired only through work, I completely changed my attitude about my job. No longer do I get upset about inane decisions that are made by management, the nonsensical policies that make up the paradigm of the week, the prepubescent co-workers: I work for money. I enhance my skill-set for money. I look for promotions for money.

I don't worship money and never have. Nor do the authors; they draw a clear distinction of why money is valuable and why you should obtain it (legally, of course, though other reviewers may have you think otherwise).

I recommend this book to anyone that works in our new (past 12 years?) economy. It's helped me through two reorganizations in my company, and I expect it will continue to help me through the next.

Contradictory...........2003-07-21

This book contradicted itself in several places. For example, if you're an employer, pay as little as you can, offer no benefits, especially continuing education, hire indie contractors instead of employees, etc. If you are an employee, no loyalty, ask for as much money as you can get, demand paid continuing education, change jobs every three years happy or not, etc.

His advice works only if you are in businesses that are like his, lawyer or othere white collar professional, or jobs where machines can do most of your work. SOMEBODY has to do physical work of some sort, so that others can do what Pollan espouses. Someone has to clean houses, make food at restaurants, take care of the elderly in nursing homes. Are you prepared to either work all your life to pay $$$$ an hour for this, or at some point are you going to do some of this stuff yourself to save money and/or make money off of others?

He seems to feel that any sort of actual "labor" is something to be avoided. Well, who is going to weed his garden, or make the computers or any other machines he needs in his business?

I actually found part 2 of the book more useful.

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Live Rich - Everything You Need To Know To Be Your Own Boss, Whoever You Work For
Stephen M. and Levine, Mark Pollan
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Live Rich : Everything You Need to Know to Be Your Own Boss, Whoever You Work For
Stephen M.; Levine, Mark Pollan
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A Manager's Guide to Global Competitiveness.......2001-10-18

The onset of globalization provides opportunities and challenges to an organization that operates in global markets. The elimination of barriers to trade opens up new markets to compete in and simultaneously pits companies against often-formidable competition from other parts of the world. There are many books on globalization. Most of them use a broad brush and are not very useful to a manager who is looking for insights on enhancing competitiveness.

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This is an excellent tool for managers who seek to be competitive in global markets.

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Learning About the Controversy.......2007-02-01

Gun Control, Edited Carol O'Sullivan

The "Opposing Viewpoints" series are designed to educate the reader to distinguish between fact and opinion. Facts are something that can be proved true, an opinion is usually based on how a person evaluates a fact. The analysis of sample viewpoints illustrates this point. Four chapters cover the topics concisely for youths.

Viewpoint 1 claims gun control laws are necessary, but shows typical dishonesty in his arguments. The true measure is the rate of violent deaths for each country, and that is not given here. Cities with gun control laws have higher crime rates than rural areas that have a lot of guns. Viewpoint 2 explains the problems caused by gun control laws. These laws were not passed to save lives, but part of a plot to oppress people. Most murders are committed by ordinary people, ever since Cain slew Abel with his unregistered weapon.

Viewpoint 3 quotes the Second Amendment "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". This was unquestioned until the late 19th century when powerful corporations attacked the "well-regulated militia" and other supports of democracy in America. Viewpoint 4 is deliberately wrong. One of the first laws of the United States required all males to own a gun or pay a fine (unless excused). The people did not want a large standing army to safeguard against a military coup or other tyranny. Why didn't the author of this opinion give his name?

Viewpoint 5 claims that keeping a gun in the house makes a robbery less likely. This is proven by the number of home robberies in countries where guns are banned for the common people. The argument of guns being a danger to children is false. More die from drowning but they don't want "bathtub control"! Viewpoint 6 argues against keeping a gun in your home by using incomplete facts. The rate of violent death in the U.S. is lower than in countries that prohibit gun ownership. Their rates of suicide are much higher for a lower murder rate. You should attribute this to cultural, economic, and political factors, but few do.

Viewpoint 7 tells the personal experiences of one person and why he keeps a handgun for self-defense. Laws don't stop criminals. Viewpoint 8 takes the view that a shotgun is a better weapon for self-defense. It is more powerful than a pistol, but unwieldy in the confined space of a home. The truth is that a pistol is the best weapon for most people, and that is why it is carried by so many. [Can you sense his emotions in this viewpoint, and how it affects his thinking?]

The last page correctly points out that editorial cartoons present an opinion, not facts, in an attempt to influence your opinion. Are they always flawed because of this?

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This book presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by non-governmental organizations in Latin America. Beginning with a broad review of institutional activity at the grassroots level, the authors set the case material within the context of NGO relations with the state and their contribution to democratization and the consolidation of rural civil society.

The book raises specific questions about how useful NGOs can be in promoting technological innovation and addressing constraints to change in present agriculture, how effective they are at strengthening grassroots organizations, and how donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to the state.

Non-Governmental Organisations and the State in Latin America: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development

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Non-Governmental Organisations and the State in Latin America: Rethinking Roles in Sustainable Agricultural Development
Anthony Bebbington
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This invaluable volume is a collection of conference talks by James D Bjorken, who has made a huge impact on particle physics and the development of the Standard Model. The earliest of these talks was given in 1965, and the latest in 1990. The book provides, from a personal perspective, a glimpse of the complex evolution of the field over those highly productive decades. In Conclusion: A Collection of Summary Talks in High Energy Physics is aimed at a broad spectrum of particle physicists, both experimental and theoretical, but will benefit students as well.

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FOREWORD BY NORMAN MAILER

Engagingly written, this is a comprehensive but popular history of the occult background and roots of the Nazi movement, showing how the ideas of a vast international network of late 19th- and early 20th century occult groups influenced Nazi ideology, from Madame Blavatsky and Aleister Crowley to the Thule Gesellschaft, the Order of the Golden Dawn, the Order of the Eastern Temple, and the pseudoscientific expeditions to Iceland and Tibet of the Ancestral Heritage Research and Teaching Society. Nazi appropriation of the occult was a strange mixture of astrology, freemasonry, racism rooted in occultism, and popular European folklore. It also traces the Nazi movements as they continued their activities after the war or "morphed" into neo-Nazi, skinhead, and satanic groups, such as the Christian Identity and White Aryan Resistance movements.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent research!.......2007-07-06

Although I could go on and on, like the other reviewers, I'll try to keep this short. Peter Levenda did extensive research for this book, and its obvious looking at the bibliography. There was a lot going on in the world before and during WWII, and this book really opened my eyes as to how many significant events were inspired by the occult and superstitions. I always viewed historical texts focused on this particular time frame as very dry and dull, but this book really got down and dirty with the alterior motives behind all the strategy that took place during those years.

This book was NOT an easy read, however... but it was well worth the effort to stay focused. There was no filler material like most books have - each sentence and paragraph was full of information and detail, so if you drift off into thought about what you just read, you'll miss something important.

I just wish I could buy it in hardback.

Horrible research and poorly formulated arguments.......2007-04-29

As other reviewer have mentioned, Levenda contradicts his own conclusions and arguments in this book; arguments formed by poor research and untrustworthy sources.

It's at least as bad as "Spear of Destiny" if not worse, due to the greater amount of verifiable, solid sources available.

You have to be VERY gullible to take this book seriously!.......2007-01-26

Unholy Alliance has to be the stupidest book written about so called "Nazi occultism" since Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft. The author of this book is either insane, a huckster trying to make a buck or a covert ADL agent. It reads like he did his research for this book by watching one of those silly A & E "Nazi occult" documentaries, reading public ADL or SPLC "intelligence" reports designed to scare little old Jewish ladies into thinking the Nazis are coming back if they don't send in a large donation, and then tying the ends by just making a bunch of stuff up.

I mean I really don't know where to start with this one. For one there is absolutely no evidence that Hitler was a Satanist, Odinist or any type of practicing occultist. Levenda can't seem to figure out what the Nazis as a whole are either. In one brush of the stroke he says they are worshippers of Odin, Thor, etc, then in the next he says they were trying to recreate the Christian Knights Templar and the Jesuit Order through the SS!

He also makes the nutty and totally baseless claim that a South American religious cult made up of people of German ancestry are Nazi war criminals who escaped after WW2 and are secretly pulling the strings of the various South American governments behind the scenes. News Flash! There was no connection between the people at ""Colonia Dignidad" and Nazism. Just because you are German and live in South America does not mean you are a "Nazi war criminal" fleeing justice. There were huge amounts of Germans living in South America long before WW2, there have been and still are whole German communities there and 99.999% of the Germans who went to South America after WW2 did so to escape what was going to be a very nasty place to live for many years to come, not because Simon Wiesenthal was hot on their heels. As far as "escaped Nazis" having anything to do with installing these murderous crackpot right wing dictators that popped up at various times in South America its totally baseless and delusional. I think you might look to a Jewish man named Kissinger if you want to know how those regimes came about.

As if all of this wasn't enough I actually heard Levenda on a talk radio show claiming that "Nazi skinheads" were running a multi-million dollar drug smuggling empire as a joint operation with Al-Queda! Ha ha ha! If you believe that you will believe anything.

If you want to read a sane book on Nazis and the occult check out The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke

Fascinating, but I'm not sure I believe him........2006-08-31

The bulk of this book is an absorbing study of Nazi occultism. Levenda contends that this was not an eccentricity dabbled in by a few of the high command but was in fact central to fascism. In his research he read reams of documents from the Nazi era in various archives, piles of bureaucratic letters, newspaper clippings, reports and other things, so he has gone directly to the source. In addition to his extensive research of a fascinating subject, he has a wry humor and very readable style.

The problem comes when he tries to convince the reader that there is still a worldwide Nazi occult conspiracy which could break out and start wreaking havoc any day. He documents the escapes and probable present whereabouts of various Nazi war criminals, but his attempts to show that they are secretly pulling the strings behind, for example, various small racist groups in Europe and America are unconvincing. His own accounts of meeting with some of these groups suggest that they are mere random collections of nutbars.

He discusses the Manson murders at length, apparently believing that because the Manson gang was racist and subscribed to a bizarre cosmology, their crimes support his theory of a lingering Nazi occult conspiracy, but he is unable to show any kind of connection to the Manson gang and, well, anything. In addition, late in the book he talks about some subjects that I know something about, and I caught quite a few mistakes, and as a former true crime buff, one of them was about the Manson murders. Levenda tries to bolster the racism-occultism connection by stating that Manson girl Susan Atkins was a member of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. No doubt this was asserted in numerous sensationalist newspaper articles, but one would expect a man who spent untold hours reading Nazi-era bureaucratic red tape to check his facts better than that. The connection between Atkins and LaVey is far more tenuous. Before she met Manson, she worked as a stripper. Once, her strip club decided to do a sort of horror theme show and had it choreographed by a local occultist named Anton LaVey. LaVey had not yet founded the Church of Satan, and in his youth had been a musician playing accompaniment for strippers, and so probably still had plenty of friends in the striptease industry. In her autobiography, Atkins, who became a born-again Christian in prison, claims that when they met LaVey gave her the creeps. The creepy feeling didn't stop her from playing her part in his horror strip skit, that of a vampire, a detail the newspapers would pounce on with relish after the murders. That was the extent of their association. She was never a member of the CoS. That I can catch him in a few mistakes which he could easily have better verified makes me wonder how seriously I can take the rest of his research, which is largely in languages I don't speak and buried in vaults that would take untold hours to dig through.

Another warning signal is Levenda's claims of anti-intellectual bias coupled with assertions that most Americans are not intellectual enough to suit Levenda. He spends several pages moaning about how ignorant Americans are about World War II and the Holocaust. At one point he says, if I may paraphrase, "According to a recent study, an appalling percentage of Americans have never heard of the Holocaust." Apparently the percentage wasn't as appalling as he wishes, or one imagines he would have shared the figure with us. In any case, I am frankly skeptical of his assertions. Maybe it's just that I don't spend much time talking to idiots, but I've yet to encounter an American who wasn't actually pretty knowledgeable about the whole thing. One feels he is talking through his hat so that he can make himself seem smarter by comparison with all those duffers who don't know what he does.

At one point, he complains that "all" governments, of every stripe, distrust intellectuals. According to him, in China intellectuals are suspected of being capitalists and in America intellectuals are suspected of being communists. Well, I'm an intellectual and I'm afraid I've just never seen any evidence of this institutional distrust of intellectuals he bemoans. This is the kind of thing people who think society isn't deferring to them enough whine about. Ironically, if the erudite Nazi occultists in his book are any indication, distrusting intellectuals is probably a very good idea.

Levenda says: "And those Americans for whom intellectual and cultural sophistication held certain attractions that could not be matched by Iowa corn country square dances or homespun Bible Belt homilies found themselves having more in common with the Hollywood image of the typical SS officer than with the type of American GI portrayed by, say, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne or Henry Fonda. As a certain, subtextual cultural identification with the SS began to take place among our basically intelligent but incompetently educated American youth it would not be long before political identification would occur... with unfortunate consequences."

The problem is, he never gets around to telling us what these "unfortunate consequences" are. He talks at length about contemporary occultists, who are often exceptionally intelligent people, but doesn't even attempt to argue that they are racist or violent or in any other way dangerous. The racist groups he met with in his research sound by his own account like very stupid people. He basically suggests that sophisticated people might be inspired by classic war movies to adopt Nazism without being able to cite even one example of one who did.

And he's jumping to all sorts of unwarranted conclusions. For one thing, there are plenty of movies that portray elegant people in a positive light. Maybe not those being made nowadays, but thanks to AMC and TCM, and the BBC, hundreds of such movies are readily available.

Now, my own amusements tend toward classic jazz, German expressionism, and classic novels. I've just started to take an interest in the great works of ancient Greece. In short, I'm one of those he talks about who might "culturally identify" with the suave S.S. officer of movies. And yet, oddly enough I can't feel the disdain he assures me I should for "Iowa corn country square dances or homespun Bible Belt homilies". Indeed, one of my personal maxims, which I have verified many times through brutal experience, is that people who dislike country music are rarely to be trusted. I admire these things. My refined education allows me to see the value in them the more keenly. Those people I know who turn up their noses at "Iowa corn country square dances or homespun Bible Belt homilies" are the stupid, uncultivated, unwashed masses, the kind who believe uncritically the slanted news the MSM dishes out and will voluntarily watch Beavis and Butthead.

Besides which, um, "Iowa corn country square dances or homespun Bible Belt homilies" are not really all that prevalent today. I live in the Bible Belt, surrounded by rural communities, descended on both sides from farmers, and I don't see that much of these things. Levenda accuses most Americans of getting their ideas about Nazism from "the movies", but apparently he gets his ideas of rural America from "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Doc Hollywood" (a movie whose portrayal of the rural South had the rural North Carolina audience I watched it with in stitches). Americans are hardly stuck with a choice between square dances and fascism.

One Side of Darkness.......2006-07-06

Peter Levenda's book on the history of Nazi Involvement with the occult is interesting and informative, but sadly lacking in balance. He presents significant detail and insightful analysis relative to the occult foundation of the Nazi ideology and, in so doing, rightly depicts something which is fundamentally evil. Levenda goes on quite rightly to illustrate that the Nazi ideology is not dead, but has been aided and abetted in its survival by certain elements of the American intelligence and scientific communities. But in elaborating this profound evil, he utterly fails to mention the other evils with which Nazism was at times in contention and at times in conformity. Because of this, we cannot, in good faith, give the book an unqualified recommendation. Nonetheless, it is interesting, well written, and, though quite biased, worth reading.

An excellent example of Levenda's lack of balance is in the author's depiction of Samuel Untermyer. Levenda describes this man as a satanist and an initiate of the Golden Dawn. While this is all well and good, Levenda fails to mention that it was this same Untermyer who, in 1933, declared "holy war" on Hitler's Germany on behalf of International Jewry, this declaration being carried on a natonal radio broadcast in an era when all important announcements were thus made. There is something truly detestable about an author who would style himself a historian and yet leave out such an important detail.

Nonetheless, we would encourage interested students to pick up and to read Levenda's otherwise important and well written book. It contains much that is worthwhile relative to the very significant occult foundations of the hideous Nazi ideology. For providing this very important information, we are very grateful to the author and applaud, in particular, his very readable and enjoyable sense of style.

Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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