A worthwhile set of exercises for anyone in a business partnership or about to start one.
An in-depth workbook exploring the inner workings of successful business partnerships.
If you had started a business with a friend, run it up to full speed, then watched helplessly as it violently shook itself to pieces, you might vow never to partner again. Soffer (Mom Said, 2006) instead chose to write this book, loading it with useful ideas, helpful advice and probing questions that make it a valuable workbook for people contemplating business partnerships. She uses the book as a confessional, relating her personal journey—from tears and anger at her partner to a calm understanding that, in order to grow beyond the breakup, she had to take responsibility for it. Despite a bad partners’ shortcomings, she explains, “They’re in your life because you drew them to you—and you are allowing them to remain.” At times, the prose gets a little maudlin (“I know women who went into marriage all dewy-eyed and vowing that they’d never part. I’ll admit I went into my business partnership the same way.”), but if readers find that Soffer’s personal journey doesn’t reflect their own, they can get out their pencils and skip directly to Chapter 9. Here, Soffer remains true to her purpose and delivers real value, providing good and bad reasons to partner, common lies that undermine a working partnership, 24 key questions about who you are and why you want to partner, and 25 more questions about your natural mode of partnership collaboration. She then poses another 13 questions about communication style, 26 questions probing one’s expectations, and 10 questions about philanthropy and “giving back.” The author follows this with extensive inquiries about a business’ mission statement, purpose and structure, resulting in a solid guidebook.
A worthwhile set of exercises for anyone in a business partnership or about to start one.Pub Date: Oct. 23, 2012
ISBN: 978-0985917302
Page Count: 292
Publisher: A Human Foundation Publishing, LLC
Review Posted Online: June 3, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
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An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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