Category: Values
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Seven foundational concepts of professional tax practice
Seven foundational concepts of professional tax practice:
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Random reflections tonight after the Super Bowl
When the members of churches who taught me my most fundamental ethical beliefs like: Iove my neighbor and foreigners alike, treat all people equally, respect the poor and disabled, give money and time freely, do not steal, do not kill, turn the other cheek – now teach the exact opposite, When the person I recognized…
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Reflecting on the military cargo planes that keep coming
It was a sad day for our country as three Army Reserve engineers killed in Jordan, including a local South Jersey resident, arrived Friday morning at Dover Air Force Base. My Money Island NJ home office is directly east of Dover Air Force Base eight miles across the Delaware Bay and so we see and…
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Location, location, location
Our former home of Ardmore Pennsylvania is listed in this article as the #1 best liberal place to live in America. I’d like to believe that I played at least a tiny role in creating and maintaining this great place. This is where I coached multiple kids sports teams, built relationships with hundreds of families,…
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Personal opposition: active vs passive
When we confront things in life that we do not like or find distasteful, we have a choice between taking an active or a passive position in opposition. It occurs to me that understanding this distinction and contemplating the difference in our daily lives is an important part of our personal maturity. There are few…
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A reflection on the lack of diversity among my business clients
Today I notice that my alma mater Villanova University, located in my former neighborhood, just named nine new members to its law school professional staff and included a headshot photo of each. Only one of the nine is an Anglo-Saxon man. That new hire ratio is quite a difference from my own new client ratio.…
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Business Leadership Forecast for 2023
These eight macroeconomic trends will influence businesses leaders in 2023.
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Personal reflection Sunday 11/13/2022:
For almost 30 years I focused my business activist efforts on addressing the widening gap in education, income, and wealth in my communities. I thought that I could be part of a thousand points of light as a columnist, educator, and adviser. It was a complete failure if we judge by the net result. For…
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My blessed and winding career in 7 tweets
My blessed, winding and interesting career in 7 tweets: 1- On 2/1/1997, the investment banking firm Drexel Burnham Lambert took out a two page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal listing the names of every one of its thousands of employees. My name was included. I enjoyed life flying from home Ocean City to NYC…
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My Greatest Fear
My greatest fear is that the world, and specifically the United States, is on an accelerated path of self destruction and there is little I can do to change this. A probabilistic analysis of current events, including yesterday’s ruling by the Supreme Court against the U.S. emission control plan, lead to a conclusion that we…