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
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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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