Mark Halpern

By Mark Halpern It’s taken me working for almost 35 years, in an industry I love, to become an “overnight success”—and, frankly, most of us can say something similar. As Malcolm Gladwell pointed out in his book Outliers, it often requires 10,000 hours of dedicated practice for someone to become …

Among all the reasons people give to charity, reducing their taxes is often far down the list. According to a survey by the Charities Aid Foundation in the U.K., more important reasons people give are: 96%: personal values including a sense of morality and ethics 75%: belief in a specific …