By 2 Cents on February 11th, 2011 | Category: Book Reviews |  When they do arrive, Jump Points are necessarily startling and disruptive periods. They upset the status quo, threaten existing leaders, and rattle the complacent. . . . Most of our prevailing business assumptions will be challenged and a whole set of new ones will be born as businesses everywhere make the Jump.
~ Tom Hayes
I received a book called Jump Point: How Network Culture is Revolutionizing Business for Christmas in 2009. I didn’t get around to reading it until recently. That’s noteworthy because the topic of the book is quite time sensitive. You realize that when MySpace is referenced as the top dog in the social media world and Facebook is mentioned as an up-and-comer – and the book just came out in 2008!
It’s been interesting to read this book at the beginning of 2011 because that’s the year in which its author, Tom [...]
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By 2 Cents on October 1st, 2010 | Category: 20 Cents | Another month has passed all too quickly and it’s time to round up a few of my favourite articles from September. How quickly 2010 is slipping away! It seems like just yesterday I was writing up a few ideas on 2010 What Ifs for the New Year. Now it’s time to start thinking about what 2011 might hold!
I read a lot of great articles everyday. I can’t include all of them here, but I usually highlight them on Twitter. You can follow me @BalanceJunkie.
1. Canadian Finance Blog has recently launched Money Index, a website that aggregates all kinds of financial content for you. It’s a great resource for anyone interested in personal finance and investing. I’ve added a widget to get you there on the right sidebar. In case you’re interested, you can find Balance [...]
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By 2 Cents on May 10th, 2010 | Category: Career | Allison W. writes for The Digerati Life, a site that shares various financial articles about stock investing, saving and debt management. Check out the site’s reviews on the best high yield savings accounts and the top online brokers available to consumers.
If you don’t like what you got, why don’t you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it.
~ Trooper (Canadian rock band, from the song Raise a Little Hell)
Let me share something with you. I always wanted to be a writer. When I was at school and the teacher asked me what I wanted to do, I said something along the lines of “shop manager”. But personally I couldn’t think of anything worse for a creative soul but I was afraid they’d laugh at me if I said I wanted to be a writer.
Fast forward around twenty five years though, [...]
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By 2 Cents on December 30th, 2009 | Category: Economics |  Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
~ Hal Borland
Yesterday we looked at some notes that I had made at the beginning of 2009. Today, we look at possible problem areas for 2010. Again, these are obviously not predictions, as I’m too chicken to stick my neck out on what I think will happen. Further, I don’t have any idea what will happen, nor do the thousands of pundits making their “here’s what ‘s going to happen in 2010 lists”. This is meant to be food for thought, and nothing more. (I don’t know about you, but I could use a little more of that kind of food rather than the calorie-filled sort I’ve indulged in over the past week!)
Debt: I think this [...]
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By 2 Cents on December 29th, 2009 | Category: Economics |  Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
This year is going; let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
Recently I was cleaning up and encountered a sheet of paper I had written on with the title “Possible Tape Bombs To Come”. I wrote it early in 2009 to organize my thoughts on what to look out for in the New [...]
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By 2 Cents on December 17th, 2009 | Category: Family | It’s not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can’t run your family like a company. It doesn’t work.
~ Andrew Grove
Well, obviously Andrew Grove, a key player in the birth of Intel, thinks the answer is no. I bet you can probably guess that I’m going to say that it’s not a yes or no question. I think the answer, like so many others, is yes and no.
Anyone who knows children knows that their needs cannot always be scheduled or anticipated. Anyone who has children knows that parenting is a 24/7, always-on-call affair. In that sense, it’s sort of like being a business owner. That said, as a business owner, you might need to cut expenses, employees, or suppliers. But as a parent, you are probably [...]
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