Series: Guru Guide | Publication Date: September 22, 2003
If you want to learn about the latest thinking in money management, you can read the hundreds of books and thousands of articles published each year on the subject. Or you could seek a single resource for informed guidance on everything you need to know. For the very best information from the biggest names in personal finance, turn to this stellar resource. Based on renowned Fortune 500 consultants Joseph and Jimmie Boyett’s extensive research, it distills the wisdom of the world’s best-known personal finance and money management writers and thinkers into straightforward, bite-sized lessons about everything from insurance to IRAs.
If you want to learn about the latest thinking in money management, you can read the hundreds of books and thousands of articles published each year on the subject. Or you could seek a single resource for informed guidance on everything you need to know. For the very best information from the biggest names in personal finance, turn to The Guru Guide™ to Money Management. Based on renowned Fortune 500 consultants Joseph and Jimmie Boyett’s extensive research, it distills the wisdom of the world’s best-known personal finance and money management writers and thinkers into straightforward, bite-sized lessons about everything from insurance to IRAs.
In The Guru Guide™ to Money Management, you’ll learn how to think like a millionaire from gurus Napoleon Hill and Suze Orman. You’ll learn to invest in mutual funds and stocks from Peter Lynch and Warren Buffet. You’ll hear from Jean Chatzky on finding a financial planner, Robert Kiyosaki on achieving financial independence outside of the 9 to 5 world, and Charles Schwab on choosing and buying insurance. You’ll also hear from Terry Savage, Robert Allen, and Marshall Loeb, among others.
Organized by pertinent topics that cover every aspect of money management, this book covers issues such as picking a credit card and understanding interest rates and fees, selecting a mortgage, as well as car and student loans, and preparing your taxes. The Guru Guide™ to Money Management also explores the fundamentals of investing in stocks, real estate, and mutual funds, retirement and estate planning, as well as loftier topics such as the psychological resolve needed to save money.
Informed and opinionated, The Guru Guide™ to Money Management shows you where the experts agree and disagree and offers the Boyetts’ own unique take on what the biggest names in personal finance have to say. Loaded with insights, it’s a clear, concise, and informative digest of the best new thinking on how to make the most of your money.
From the Back Cover
Is there an easy way to save more money?
How can I grow my money without risking it in the stock market?
Should I pay off all my debt before I invest, or do both at the same time?
How much money do I really need for retirement?
To find the answers to these and scores of other questions, turn to the experts–the gurus of money management and personal finance. They know all the tricks you want to know about investing wisely, saving more, and designing a household budget that works for you and your family. If you want to learn what they have to say about managing your money wisely, you could read some of the hundreds of books published every year on the subject . . . or you could turn to The Guru Guide™ to Money Management. Inside, you’ll find all the best thinking on personal finance from the authors and celebrities who know the most about money. Like the other Guru Guides™, this book offers cutting-edge advice that is objective, thought-provoking, and always practical.
Some of the Gurus you’ll meet:
Robert G. Allen, author of Multiple Streams of Income
Joe Dominguez, coauthor of Your Money or Your Life
David and Tom Gardner, coauthors of The Motley Fool Investment Guide
Ilyce Glink, author of 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Personal Finances
Clark Howard, author of Get Clark Smart
Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing
Mark Levine, coauthor of Live Rich and Die Broke
Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the SEC and coauthor of Take on the Street
Marshall Loeb, author of Marshall Loeb’s Lifetime Financial Strategies
Peter Lynch, coauthor of Learn to Earn
Suze Orman, author of 9 Steps to Financial Freedom
Jane Bryant Quinn, author of Making the Most of Your Money
Terry Savage, author of The Savage Truth on Money
Charles Schwab, author of Charles Schwab’s Guide to Financial Independence
Thomas Stanley, coauthor of The Millionaire Next Door
Eric Tyson, author of Personal Finance For Dummies
Joseph H. Boyett is cofounder of Boyett & Associates, an Atlanta-based consulting and research firm specializing in helping companies understand and implement state-of-the-art leadership and organizational practices. He has worked with companies such as IBM, BP Oil, Merck & Company, EDS, and BellSouth on leading-edge strategies for securing competitive advantage. Dr. Boyett is an internationally recognized expert and author on such topics as leadership, change management, high performance work teams, and innovative compensation practices such as gainsharing and pay-for-skill. Dr. Boyett is the author or co-author of seventeen books including the highly praised Workplace 2000, The Guru Guide™ series and Won't Get Fooled Again, a voter's guide to picking better political leaders. His most recent book is Getting Things Done in Washington: Lessons for Progressives from Landmark Legislation. [See http://www.jboyett.com for more on Dr. Boyett's books, including excerpts.]
Prior to founding Boyett & Associates in 1992, Dr. Boyett was a Principal with the international consulting firm A.T. Kearney. While at Kearney, Dr. Boyett helped establish the company's global Executive Issues Center of Excellence which was responsible for researching leading edge quality and productivity improvement methodologies. Dr. Boyett developed Kearney's world-wide methodology for implementing Total Quality Management in addition to Kearney's internal and client training programs on TQM, The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, and ISO 9000.
Prior to joining A.T. Kearney in 1990, Dr. Boyett was Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of Tarkenton Conn & Company, an Atlanta-based Total Quality Management consulting firm. He served as Tarkenton's senior, executive-level consultant on productivity and quality measurement, team performance systems, and pay-for-performance compensation systems such as gainsharing and pay-for-skill. He regularly conducted assessments of management and compensation practices for such companies as Sara Lee Corporation, Bell Canada, TRW and GTE and advised senior executives in these companies on change implementation strategies. Dr. Boyett designed a measurement process for white-collar/knowledge workers which was adopted by Ford Motor Company, among other major U.S. and Canadian companies.
Dr. Boyett is the coauthor of Maximum Performance Management (Glenbridge Publishing Ltd., 1988 and Capstone (UK), 1995), a guide to implementing innovative management and compensation practices which was endorsed by the American Productivity and Quality Center, the Quality and Productivity Management Association, the Association for Quality and Participation and many other U.S. productivity and quality associations. A second edition of Maximum Performance Management was published in 1993.
Dr. Boyett's next book, Workplace 2000: The Revolution Reshaping American Business was published by New American Library/Penguin USA in 1991. It has been called a "confident prophecy," a "visionary classic," a "provocative forecast," and a "must-read" by reviewers in Fortune, Working Woman, The Executive and elsewhere. Workplace 2000 is currently in its fourteenth printing.
In 1993, Dr. Boyett coauthored a book with executives from IBM that told the inside story of that company's struggle to reinvent itself. The Quality Journey tells the story of IBM Rochester's pursuit of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and how the unit's winning that award in 1990 impacted the rest of IBM. Publisher's Weekly called The Quality Journey "one of the year's top business books."
Dr. Boyett's fifth book, Beyond Workplace 2000 (NAL/Dutton April 1995), updated the American business revolution and outlined the steps American businesses and individuals will be forced to take to succeed in the twenty-first century. Reviewers praised Beyond Workplace 2000 as a "terrific job of reporting," that is "thoughtful and imaginative" and "must reading" for everyone seeking to make the transition to the new world of work.
Dr. Boyett's sixth book, The Guru Guide™: The Best Ideas of the Top Management Thinkers, was published by John Wiley & Sons in May 1998. The Guru Guide™ is a detailed critical appraisal of the most significant contributions to management thought from 79 of the world's greatest management writers and thinkers. In it Dr. Boyett, with his coauthor and wife Jimmie Boyett, outlines the most important developments in thinking about leadership, managing change, the learning organization, high-performance teams, business strategy, motivating people, and organizational structure from the 1980s and 1990s. The Guru Guide™ has been published in eight foreign translations including, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and Chinese, and Russian.
Four sequels to The Guru Guide™ have been completed. The Guru Guide™ to Entrepreneurship was published in December 2000. It is a compilation and synthesis of entrepreneurial know-how on everything from picking the right business to developing business plans to managing money and exploiting the Internet from 70 of the world's greatest entrepreneurs including Jeff Bezos, Jim Clark, Warren Buffett, Anita Roddick, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and many more. BusinessWeek Online called it "the maverick's manual for entrepreneurial success."
The Guru Guide™ to the Knowledge Economy was published in June 2001. It includes a detailed synthesis of advice from 115 of the world's greatest management thinkers on such topics as electronic commerce, knowledge management, customer relationship management, globalization, and business ethics.
The Guru Guide™ to Marketing was published in 2003. It provides a concise guide to the best ideas of 62 of the world's greatest marketing experts including Philip Kotler, Jack Trout, Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, and Don Peppers.
The Guru Guide™ to Money Management was published in the fall of 2003. It is a synthesis of the advice of over 60 of America's top personal finance and investment advisers including such notables as Warren Buffet, Arthur Levitt, Peter Lynch, and the Motley Fools, David and Tom Gardner.
In addition to these books, Dr. Boyett is the co-author of two highly praised guides to implementing major changes in compensation practices: The Gainsharing Design Manual (ASJA Press, 2004) and The Skill-Based Pay Design Manual (ASJA Press, 2004). Also, he has written numerous articles on innovative management and compensation practices for such publications as Working Woman, National Productivity Review, National Productivity Report, Innovative Leader, Communications Briefings, Employee Benefit News, Boardroom Reports, Behavioral Sciences Newsletter, Personnel Report for the Executive, Quality and Productivity Management Association Update, On the Horizon, and Progressive Grocer. Between 1988 and 1991, he wrote a regular feature article on management for Entrepreneur Magazine. A collection of these articles was published in paperback in 1991 by New American Library/Plume as The Competitive Edge: Essential Business Skills for Entrepreneurs.
Dr. Boyett has spoken before such diverse groups as the American Management Association, the Japan Management Association, the Quality and Productivity Management Association, the National Association of Industrial Engineers, the Association for Quality and Participation, as well as serving as a member of a four-person Office of the Future "Mastermind" keynote panel at the Gartner Group Symposium ITXPO99. He was a featured speaker at the 1994 and 1995 International Conferences on Work Teams, the international Telework Event held at Nijenrode University, the Netherlands, the HR Technology Conference and Exposition in 1999 and the IBM/PeopleSoft Pacific Executive Symposium held in Melbourne, Australia in July 2001. In addition to his many speaking engagements, Dr. Boyett is a frequent guest on business radio and TV talk shows in major markets throughout the country and has been a featured guest on the nationally syndicated Business Radio Network.
Before joining Tarkenton Conn & Company in 1981 as Director of Consulting, Dr. Boyett served as a principal advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education on performance management and quality improvement programs for civil rights enforcement. He participated in the Department of Education's initial efforts to implement W. Edwards Deming's quality improvement approach in federal agencies.
Dr. Boyett began his career as a member of the faculty of the University of Georgia where he conducted research on public management for the University's Institute of Government and served as a consultant to state and local government officials.
Dr. Boyett holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in Political Science with an emphasis in political leadership and statistics. He is a member of The Author's Guild, The American Society of Journalist and Authors (ASJA), and The American Political Science Association.
This review is from: The Guru Guide to Money Management: The Best Advice from Top Financial Thinkers on Managing Your Money (Hardcover)
I absolutely loved this book. It was a required book for a personal finance course I took at when I was a freshman in college. It along with another required book The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko, really helped me put saving and investing money in a new perspective. It is true that the book could have been a little more in depth and I don't agree with their take on debit cards, but all in all it is a good starting point for anyone who would like to better manage their money, or anyone who needs a little help getting their finances in order. It offers practical advice that you can put into use immediately to help you get back on the right track.
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This review is from: The Guru Guide to Money Management: The Best Advice from Top Financial Thinkers on Managing Your Money (Hardcover)
I found this book to be disjointed and not helpful at all. There are much better books out there on money management. My favorite so far is "The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need" by Andrew Tobias.
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This review is from: The Guru Guide to Money Management: The Best Advice from Top Financial Thinkers on Managing Your Money (Hardcover)
I am an equity investor with an academic MBA-Finance stamp on my resume. While I have read and continue to read books on accounting and equity valuation, I was searching for an overall money management/personal finance guide. To appreciate this book you have to understand its purpose. Simply put, if you are making money by valuing firms and investing in securities, and want to step back for a bit and 'value' your own personal financial situation, this is the book for you. The author's give a wonderful introduction to the book by saying that there are a ton of personal finance books that come out every month - how true! They combine a lot of the good stuff from the tons of titles out there and put their own spin to it. This title is highly recommended. My sanity has already been pushed by reading advanced accounting and corporate finance books and I would much rather this title on personal finance than 'go over the edge' by reading the hundreds of books on personal finance.
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