A review by bizzyfenly
Smart Women Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and Funding Your Dreams by David Bach

1.0

The author is clearly knowledgeable, but I question the recommendations when the examples and motivational stories provided are not accurate and/or promote unethical and abusive business practices. For example, when you cite Amazon's business practices and staffing retention model as an admirable way of maintaining motivated staff, I am absolutely going to make conclusions about what that means for your values and beliefs (and their lack of alignment with my own). It takes very little research to learn that the Amazon business plan requires staff turn over to be successful, which basically guarantees that employees will be exposed to toxic work environments. I do not trust the author as a result and while I might find it a good study in business practices that I do not want to be in any of my investments, I also feel very uncomfortable taking lessons in meditation or gratitude when reading a financial guide, particularly if this author values profit over human and/or labor rights. However, if an editor somewhere created a book of just the financial worksheets or details about the types of accounts that can be utilized, this could be a very useful resource.