Download or read book Hybrid Entrepreneurship How the Middle Class Can Beat the Slow Economy Earn Extra Income and Reclaim the American Dream written by Felicia Joy and published by Joy Group Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felicia Joy, a national business expert and working entrepreneur, shares how everyday middle-class Americans can beat the slow economy, earn extra income and reclaim the American Dream.
Download or read book Liminality in Organization Studies written by Maria Rita Tagliaventi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of flexible and mutable work arrangements, there is hardly a domain of organizing that has not been affected by liminality. Temporary workers who switch companies based on projects, consultants who operate at the boundaries between the consultant and the client companies, or ‘hybrid entrepreneurs’ who start new ventures, while still keeping their previous job, are examples of liminality in organizations. Liminality is also felt by managers who handle interorganizational relationships within customer-supplier networks or scientists who, albeit affiliated with R&D units, have strong ties with their scientific communities, acknowledging that they belong to neither setting thoroughly. Precious hints for enriching our comprehension of liminality in organizational settings can be conveyed by the reflection that has flourished in different fields. This book advances knowledge of liminality management by elaborating on a model that puts together aspects of the liminal process that have been mostly described in a separate way so far, benefiting from the input provided by experience in sociology, medicine, and education. Through the articulation of a model that accounts for the antecedents, content, and consequences of liminality in organizations, the book intends to prompt quantitative research on this topic. It will be of value to those interested in organizational behavior, organization and management, marketing, sociology of work, and sociology of organizations.
Download or read book Plan C written by Erin Albert and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time in America, the world of work was simpler. We were told to go for Plan A: Go to a great college, since your parents probably didn't get the chance. Then go to a professional school-medical, dental, law, you pick it. Then graduate, and get the very best 'professional' job you can. Work your dupa off. Work 60 hours a week. Give 150%, even though you don't own anything. Become an employee! However, you're expendable. And...you're laid off. Then we could try Plan B: Go through twelve stages of losing job. Declare that you'll chuck it all to start your own business to live the dream. Work your dupa off. Work 120 hours a week. Give 250%, and you own everything. You're an entrepreneur! However, you're dealing with uncertainty, administration, and lack of cash flow. You're dealing with your beautiful dream and the sometimes-ugly reality. And, you're exhausted, frustrated, and...closed. This book is about Plan C: Don't chuck the day job, keep it. Don't chuck the entrepreneurial dream, keep that too. DO BOTH! Work the full-time day job, and create the entrepreneurial dream on the side. You'll be working ALL THE TIME in your head and pretty much in your life. It won't be easy. But what in life is that IS worth doing This book is about how to live a Plan C life, with real interviews, from real-world Plan Cers redefining the American Dream. "What are you so passionate about that you would be willing to do it for 10 years without ever making a dime? That's what you should do. Plan C gives great examples of how this has been successful for others." -Tony Hsieh, NY Times bestselling author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos.com, Inc.
Download or read book How the Poor Can Save Capitalism written by John Hope Bryant and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A successful entrepreneur and nonprofit founder shares his plan of action to help the American economy by assisting America’s poor. John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration, he argues, they will be able to lift themselves up into the middle class and become a new generation of customers and entrepreneurs. Raised in poverty-stricken, gang-infested South Central Los Angeles, Bryant saw firsthand how our institutions have abandoned the poor. He details how business loans, home loans, and financial investments have vanished from their communities. After decades of deprivation, the poor lack bank accounts, decent credit scores, and any real firsthand experience of how a healthy free enterprise system functions. Bryant radically redefines the meaning of poverty and wealth. (It’s not just a question of finances; it’s values too.) He exposes why attempts to aid the poor so far have fallen short and offers a way forward: the HOPE Plan, a series of straightforward, actionable steps to build financial literacy and expand opportunity so that the poor can join the middle class. Fully seventy percent of the American economy is driven by consumer spending, but more and more people have too much month at the end of their money. John Hope Bryant aspires to “expand the philosophy of free enterprise to include all of God's children” and create a thriving economy that works not just for the one percent or even the ninety-nine percent but for the one hundred percent. This is a free enterprise approach to solving the problem of poverty and raising up a new America. “Economic immobility is the defining issue of America in the twenty-first century. John Hope Bryant makes an engaging case for why we must make our economy work for everyone. How the Poor Can Save Capitalism is a must-read for business leaders, policymakers, and community leaders who want to make the American Dream a reality for all our children.” —Ben Jealous, former CEO, NAACP “John and I want the same things. And the goals of this book are the same goals of my Rebuild the Dream campaign. He has provided the road map to economic recovery for this country at a time when economic inequality is at its peak. I, for one, will be following the steps laid out in the HOPE Plan.” —Van Jones, former Presidential Advisor to Barack Obama and current host of CNN’s Crossfire
Download or read book Grow Rich by Reclaiming the American Dream written by Al Georges and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GROW RICH By Reclaiming The American Dream American Families battered financially by the 'Economic Perfect Storm' have lost trillions of dollars in personal and retirement investments. Dealing with an economy that has failed the average American family, many are asking if this is the End of the American Dream? They wonder what does an America with no 'middle class' look like? Many of today's families and individuals are turning to Marketing themselves, products and services through a business model that began in 1886 with Avon Skin Care. Today's Home Based Entrepreneurs have greatly improved upon that model creating personal incomes from Thousands per year to Thousands per month. Could this be an answer to meet your financial needs, apart from the daily 9 to 5 grind? Could this be a pathway to securing your family legacy for you and your loved ones? This book explores the issues and problems facing today's families. Take the brief survey in the Personal Success Journal in Part 2 to see if this option will work for you.
Download or read book The American Dream vs The Gospel of Wealth written by Norton Garfinkle and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which the middle-class American Dream seems more and more elusive. Recent government policies reflect a commitment to a new supply-side winner-take-all Gospel of Wealth. Garfinkle warns that this supply-side economic vision favors the privileged few over the majority of American citizens striving to better their economic condition. Garfinkle employs historical insight and data-based economic analysis to demonstrate compellingly the sharp departure of the supply-side Gospel of Wealth from an American ideal that dates back to Abraham Lincoln—the vision of America as a society in which ordinary, hard-working individuals can get ahead and attain a middle-class living, and in which government plays an active role in expanding opportunities and ensuring against economic exploitation. Supply-side economic policies increase economic disparities and, Garfinkle insists, they fail on technical, factual, moral, and political grounds. He outlines a fresh economic vision, consonant with the great American tradition of ensuring strong economic growth, while preserving the middle-class American Dream.
Download or read book Hollowed Out written by David Madland and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the past several decades, politicians and economists have thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But an economy that works only for the rich simply doesn't work. Because the middle class is so weak, America's economy now suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. Privileged elites more frequently secure special treatment from a government that wastes money and stifles competition. Children's opportunities are excessively determined by the wealth of their parents. Societal distrust has increased, making business transactions needlessly difficult. Consumer demand has weakened and become unstable, which has helped fuel the Great Recession and has made the recovery painfully slow. As Hollowed Out explains, to have strong and sustainable growth, the economy needs to work for everyone and grow from the middle out. This new middle-out theory aims to supplant trickle-down economics--the theory that was so wrong about inequality and our economy and did so much damage to our nation. This new thinking has the potential to shape economic policymaking for generations."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Reclaiming the American Dream written by Bill Quain and published by . This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Dream Declassified written by Frank PN Adjei-Mensah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read, insightful blueprint to fulfilling your dreams and potentials of becoming financially emancipated. This book is a culmination of 4 years of extensive and meticulous research to uncover why some people do so well in the capitalist economy while the vast majority struggle to make ends meet. My quest was to discover answers to these elusive questions about the few who are doing so handsomely well: What do they know? What do they do differently? The research results were a total shock to my very core. I simply could not believe how uncomplicated it really is to create wealth and live the American Dream. For lack of knowledge my people perish.---Hosea 4:6. Education is THE KEY to success in any endeavor. Financial Education is THE KEY to financial success, and in the current globalized economic environment, everyone needs that in addition to their degrees, diplomas, and professional training. That need is essential and cardinal now than ever before. This book provides the entire Financial Education package, which would help readers expand their means rather than just managing their current, often meagre means, in an easy-to understand step-by-step approach towards Financial Freedom.
Download or read book No Money written by Rick Martin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After writing over 500 patents and providing legal advice for American entrepreneurs since 1986, author Rick Martin set out to write No Money: The Surviving Middle-Class American, a cartoon-illustrated collection of essays outlining the death of America's middle class. The small business start-ups that he assisted are heralded as "the heart of America-providing over half its jobs." Today, with home equities gone and credit tight, Martin feels America's small business and the entire middle class are on the endangered species list. Martin has read literature from leading left-leaning and right-leaning economists, and one common theme evolved-America's decline started when the first Toyota arrived without a balance of trade agreement with the Pacific Rim countries. This work explores the many reasons and ways in which the middle class is suffering and suggests ways that the American people can save themselves. No Money: The Surviving Middle-Class American attempts to encourage America's traumatized middle class to do something, anything, to revitalize itself before it is too late.
Download or read book Middle Class Lifeboat written by Paul Edwards and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to safeguard your livelihood, income, and standard of living through the ups and downs of any economy. Most Americans, no matter what their economic circumstances, identify themselves as middle class. A recent Gallup poll showed that 63% consider themselves upper-middle or middle class. And they are feeling burned out and squeezed, under pressure to bring home more and more money just to maintain their standard of living. Middle Class Lifeboat is an answer to that pressure, a comprehensive guide to living a more stress-free lifestyle. Part I: Safeguarding Your Livelihood: profiles the 53 best jobs to have to be self- sufficient whether the economy is up or down. Part II: Safeguarding Your Income: 6 ways to extend your earnings, that don't always involve money. Part III : Safeguarding Your Standard of Living: 10 off-the-grid lifestyle choices to increase your quality of life
Download or read book The Entrepreneurial Middle Class written by Richard Scase and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book With Liberty and Dividends for All written by Peter Barnes and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner - take - all capitalism, there won't be enough high - paying jobs to sustain America's middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs - and deserves - a supplementary source of nonlabor income. To meet this need, Barnes proposes to give every American a share of the wealth we own together - starting with our air and financial infrastructure. These shares would pay dividends of several thousand dollars per year - money that wouldn't be welfare or wealth redistribution but legitimate property income.
Download or read book Reviving the American Dream written by Adam Starchild and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you still get a job where you earn what you're worth, find fulfillment and achieve financial freedom? Yes! Entrepreneur Adam Starchild tells you how, not with pie-in-the-sky intangibles but practical, thought-provoking ideas that will help you find "the good life" that the majority of Americans want.
Download or read book Rethinking the Income Gap written by Paul Ryscavage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ethical question implied by discreparcies between the distribution of income and the economic foundations of our country is at the heart of much of today's political debate. The answer according to the left¿and often the mainstream media¿would require major changes in the way our economy functions so as to further redistribute income among households. Higher tax rates on the upper middle class and rich, more restrictive corporate regulations (including higher taxes), more centralized economic planning, in short more governmental intervention into the free market, would all be in our future¿and their deleterious effects would soon begin working their way into American life, according to Paul Ryscavage in Rethinking the Income Gap. This book is written by an economist who has spent his career studying and analyzing income inequality. News reports of mushrooming fortunes, most recently among CEOs and hedge fund managers, alongside reports of a struggling middle class and an intractable poverty class, have been common topics for the nation's media. Ryscavage asserts that the media has misused many of the facts surrounding the increase in income inequality. He calls for a reexamination of the facts and what they mean and do not mean¿and ultimately shows that, contrary to media reports, income inequality can no longer be used as a measure of economic fairness. He also writes that, notwithstanding the economic downturn of 2008, the "real" news that the media have not reported is the expansion in recent decades of our nation's middle class, especially the upper middle class. Ryscavage argues that we must reexamine what the income gap means. Its relevance as a measure of economic fairness has diminished significantly in recent years. Instead, the income gap is now linked to a variety of economic problems confronting the nation and used as a rhetorical device for stirring up social concern and advancing political agendas. Rethinking the income gap is overdue. This book does just that.
Download or read book The Localist written by Carrie Rollwagen and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Localist: Think Independent, Buy Local, and Reclaim the American Dream is the story of one girl's journey from buy-local blogger to woman entrepreneur and indie-shop advocate. When Carrie Rollwagen decided to give up corporate shopping for a year and instead shop local-only, she knew that she'd have to learn how to shop local, that she'd discover new indie businesses, and that she'd need to makeover her shopping habits. What she didn't know is that she'd save money, discover how to connect with her community, and learn to love indie business more than the big box stores she'd bought from all her life. She also didn't know that, before her buy-local year was over, she'd be the owner of her own independent business, a community coffee shop and indie bookstore in Birmingham, Alabama. In The Localist, we follow Carrie on her localist adventure as she embraces slow food, small business, the locavore movement, and many quirky indie shopkeepers and unique independent shops along the way. She tells the story of her year of blogging about buying local in Birmingham, Alabama, and she gives us an inside look at her experience as a new female entrepreneur opening a new neighborhood business: Church Street Coffee & Books, an independent bookshop and locally owned coffee shop. Part memoir, part manual on how to shop local, The Localist is pro-community, but it's not necessarily anti-corporate. Carrie doesn't attack all big business, but rather shows us what we create with our shopping dollars and helps us see new ways of making positive impact on our communities with our spending. Big box stores are convenient, but corporations are not people, and it's important that we shop local and support indie business to keep the scales balanced between Main Street and Corporate America. Carrie Rollwagen is a copywriter and independent business owner based in Birmingham, Alabama. The Localist: Think Independent, Buy Local, and Reclaim the American Dream, based on her year-long blog about choosing independent shops over big box stores, is her first book.
Download or read book Make the Middle Class Great Again written by George Lee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The middle class around the globe has been diminishing in size. Many economists have used many statistical analyses to present the fact, but no one seems to have provided a satisfactory explanation or solution for it. An astonishing fact found is that most people studying this economic phenomenon have a narrowed specialty only in economics. They don't have sufficient multidisciplinary background to confidently tackle this issue of inherently gigantic in scope and cross-disciplinary in nature. The lacking of systematic and logical treatment of this issue by both economists and politicians of limited background has made an issue that can be resolved with ration an issue of passion instead. It is no surprise that tug-war between liberal and conservative believers went on and on for years without getting the real issue solved. And the situation will get worse as technologies advance at increasing speed. It is about time someone of wider background and experience to speak out freely without subject to the limitation or constraints of academic faction or political party association. It is for this motive that the author went out of his profession as a patent attorney, to write such a book in the hope to trigger a grassroots movement to make the middle class great again. In this book, the author first introduces and explains a new concept called relative productivity of an economy. The author then goes on to introduce and explain why economy rewards relative productivity instead of absolute productivity, why this is the reason that one's life does not necessarily get better at the introduction of new technologies to the economy, why average workers have increasing difficulty staying at top-paying job, why wealth and income inequality occur as a natural result of technology advancement, why the fix to diminishing middle class to large degree has to do with reintegrating middle class back to top-income producing mechanism of the economy, what had gone wrong in the past, and how the fix is like at a personal level as well as at a grassroots movement level, with each of them further divided into several subtopics. For the grassroots movement to make middle class great again, the author further proposes a brand new use of quid pro quo principle to work out a non-zero-sum win-win solution with big corporations to resolve diminishing middle-class issue once and for all and proves its feasibility by referring to similar existing practices in urban planning and patent law arena.The majority of observations and discussions of the author in this book have not been presented elsewhere. The author intentionally make this book both an eye-opener and reference book for those who do not have multiple backgrounds or experiences. During the subtopic discussions such as stagnant wages, social immobility, skyrocketing medical care costs, expensive housing, and high tax burden, the author provides a lot of useful tips and references for readers who are interested in further exploring their options based on their individual situations. The areas touched on by this book include the latest high-tech development, macroeconomics, mortgage lending, insurance, estate planning, tax planning, immigration, urban planning, patent law, healthcare, US laws, international trading, and so on. It is unlikely for an economist without exposure to all these areas as the author has to write a book with the same degree of confidence, coherence, and comprehensiveness on the same topic. The reader is encouraged to read this book from cover to cover, to develop a holistic view first, and keep this book handy to explore the options you may take, at either the personal level to mitigate immediate hardship if any of being a middle-class member, or at the grassroots movement level to find out how you can contribute to the ultimate fix to the middle-class issue through casting your vote to right candidates and weeding out those who won't cut.
