A deeply personal and upbeat entrepreneurial manual.
In this guide, Frank offers insights into the pursuit of real estate investment, with a focus on building wealth for Black families.
In 1989, the author and her mother took over a successful real estate business founded by her father, who had established it in 1950 with only one single-family home. She now oversees hundreds of multifamily apartments and continues to expand the business with a vision of growing generational wealth. This book shares Frank’s financial advice, with which she aims to teach readers how to build their own wealth, despite institutional obstacles. Frank’s story begins with her parents, whom she defines as “fire starters”—people who ignite a flame for their future against the narrative that society has given them. She tells of how her father came to Seattle to build a business after leaving Detroit and its Jim Crow laws; she also references the success of her uncle, music legend Quincy Jones. Each chapter begins with an original poem by Frank and ends with a list of takeaways and action steps to help them put the author’s wisdom into practice. In these pages, readers can dive into the benefits of real estate investment, as well as her “R.E.A.L.” method—an acronym for a multistep process of researching, expanding one’s business, amplifying requests, and leveraging connections. Along the way, the author offers an inside look into what it’s like to be a landlord and run a family real estate business, particularly in Washington state and Arizona. Frank artfully blends her advice with discussions of diversity, equity, and inclusion, boldly speaking out against racism, sexism, and other prejudices that one may encounter while pursuing one’s full wealth potential. Ultimately, Frank encourages readers to hold a big financial picture in mind, envisioning a legacy of intergenerational wealth and philanthropy. This will be an empowering story that will provide inspiration to a wide range of readers, and particularly to Black families and entrepreneurs seeking to achieve their financial dreams. Although Frank’s advice is specific to real estate investment, readers interested in other wealth-building methods will also find motivation in this book’s vignettes.
A deeply personal and upbeat entrepreneurial manual.Pub Date: June 18, 2024
ISBN: 9781394198696
Page Count: 256
Publisher: Wiley
Review Posted Online: Aug. 15, 2024
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 2024
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Cogent, well-timed ideas for meeting today’s biggest challenges.
Helping liberals get out of their own way.
Klein, a New York Times columnist, and Thompson, an Atlantic staffer, lean to the left, but they aren’t interrogating the usual suspects. Aware that many conservatives have no interest in their opinions, the authors target their own side’s “pathologies.” Why do red states greenlight the kind of renewable energy projects that often languish in blue states? Why does liberal California have the nation’s most severe homelessness and housing affordability crises? One big reason: Liberal leadership has ensnared itself in a web of well-intentioned yet often onerous “goals, standards, and rules.” This “procedural kludge,” partially shaped by lawyers who pioneered a “democracy by lawsuit” strategy in the 1960s, threatens to stymie key breakthroughs. Consider the anti-pollution laws passed after World War II. In the decades since, homeowners’ groups in liberal locales have cited such statutes in lawsuits meant to stop new affordable housing. Today, these laws “block the clean energy projects” required to tackle climate change. Nuclear energy is “inarguably safer” than the fossil fuel variety, but because Washington doesn’t always “properly weigh risk,” it almost never builds new reactors. Meanwhile, technologies that may cure disease or slash the carbon footprint of cement production benefit from government support, but too often the grant process “rewards caution and punishes outsider thinking.” The authors call this style of governing “everything-bagel liberalism,” so named because of its many government mandates. Instead, they envision “a politics of abundance” that would remake travel, work, and health. This won’t happen without “changing the processes that make building and inventing so hard.” It’s time, then, to scrutinize everything from municipal zoning regulations to the paperwork requirements for scientists getting federal funding. The authors’ debut as a duo is very smart and eminently useful.
Cogent, well-timed ideas for meeting today’s biggest challenges.Pub Date: March 18, 2025
ISBN: 9781668023488
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Avid Reader Press
Review Posted Online: Jan. 16, 2025
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2025
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Striking research showing the immense complexity of ordinary thought and revealing the identities of the gatekeepers in our...
A psychologist and Nobel Prize winner summarizes and synthesizes the recent decades of research on intuition and systematic thinking.
The author of several scholarly texts, Kahneman (Emeritus Psychology and Public Affairs/Princeton Univ.) now offers general readers not just the findings of psychological research but also a better understanding of how research questions arise and how scholars systematically frame and answer them. He begins with the distinction between System 1 and System 2 mental operations, the former referring to quick, automatic thought, the latter to more effortful, overt thinking. We rely heavily, writes, on System 1, resorting to the higher-energy System 2 only when we need or want to. Kahneman continually refers to System 2 as “lazy”: We don’t want to think rigorously about something. The author then explores the nuances of our two-system minds, showing how they perform in various situations. Psychological experiments have repeatedly revealed that our intuitions are generally wrong, that our assessments are based on biases and that our System 1 hates doubt and despises ambiguity. Kahneman largely avoids jargon; when he does use some (“heuristics,” for example), he argues that such terms really ought to join our everyday vocabulary. He reviews many fundamental concepts in psychology and statistics (regression to the mean, the narrative fallacy, the optimistic bias), showing how they relate to his overall concerns about how we think and why we make the decisions that we do. Some of the later chapters (dealing with risk-taking and statistics and probabilities) are denser than others (some readers may resent such demands on System 2!), but the passages that deal with the economic and political implications of the research are gripping.
Striking research showing the immense complexity of ordinary thought and revealing the identities of the gatekeepers in our minds.Pub Date: Nov. 1, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-374-27563-1
Page Count: 512
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: Sept. 3, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2011
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