Referrals provide the initial force behind affluent prospects meeting and ultimately hiring a financial advisor. At the Oechsli Institute, we use the term “word-of-mouth influence” to describe ...

It is not every day that one can search Google for a word and get precisely *one* hit. Today was such a day for me. I needed a word that means the opposite of the word “hierarchy”. Some sources say ...

Reader responses were in support of making a clear distinction between the word "church" and the word "hierarchy." First read the original argument from Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese. The following letters ...

Nairobi — A reader is surprised that I used the word 'hierarchy' for priests, whereas - says he - it should refer only to a political chain of command. There, a hierarchy ranges from the lowest ...