Asset Protection for Business Owners and High-Income Earners: How to Protect What You Own from Lawsuits and Creditors


Congratulations! You have worked hard for many years and own a booming business; or perhaps you are a successful doctor, attorney, CPA, or another high-income earner. Making that money was difficult; now, you have to create a strategy to keep it. Unfortunately, you are on the radar with pending lawsuits from other businesses, employees, business partners, past marriages, relatives, the government, or anyone else who thinks they can reach your assets. With a little knowledge and access to the Internet, anyone can discover a lot of information about you, including: your home, cars, boats, real estate, bank, and investment accounts - essentially everything you own. On average, 80,000 lawsuits were filed in 2006 each day. Fortunately, you can act now to protect yourself and family later. In this easy-to-read and comprehensive book, you will learn the simple steps you need to do to protect yourself before there is a problem. The book provides a number of worksheets to help you decide the best plan of action for your financial position and personal needs. You will learn the ins and outs of protecting yourself and your family through legal methods, such as corporations, family limited partnerships and trusts, family saving trusts, offshore trusts corporations, and limited liability companies (LLCs). You will learn how to reposition your assets into legal entities that you control, creating bullet-proof security. You will learn about irrevocable living trusts, creating and maintaining LLCs, equity-stripping techniques, privacy plans, durable power of attorney, bankruptcy legislation, and estate planning for high-income individuals, as well as living, testamentary, and pour-over wills. The trick is to own nothing directly but control everything legally.





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Business Plans Made Easy, 3/e (Entrepreneur Made Easy Series)


The easiest, most effective way to write business plans—revised and updated

Business Plans Made Easy,Third Edition, is the latest incarnation of this essential guide for creating a high-impact business plan. Revised and updated, it not only shows you how to write a business plan, but also how to use it, who should see it, and how and when to update and revise it. New information on personal investment planning and information technology has also been included, and an added “expert advice” section at the end of each chapter gives helpful hints and tips.






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Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Memo to the Ceo)


During tough economic times it's more vital than ever to hold on to and leverage your top performers: They've got the outsize smarts and dedication your firm needs to survive recession and emerge stronger. Yet in 2009 many employers are failing to support and sustain their best people. Loyalty and trust are out the window. Engagement is through the floor. Flight risk is at an all time high.

In Top Talent, a volume in the Memo to the CEO series, Sylvia Ann Hewlett presents new data detailing what has happened to top talent in this brutal down cycle. She then explains how companies can re-engage and re-energize their stars.

Drawing from virtual strategy sessions conducted within fourteen corporate giants--including GE, Merrill Lynch, and Time Warner--Hewlett presents eight cutting-edge interventions that have emerged as "top picks" for managers looking to motivate top talent in tough times, including:

-Show that top leadership cares

-Create a "no-spin" zone characterized by candid, frequent communication

-Strengthen camaraderie and model stress-busting behaviors

-Provide powerful nonmonetary rewards

Concise and practical, this guide is essential for employers seeking to turbo charge their star performers.





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Start Your Own Successful Retail Business


Open the Store of Your Dreams

In every community, large or small, you're likely to see a variety of stores: clothing boutiques, gift shops, bookstores, specialty food shops, hardware stores... Their inventory may be totally different, but the steps involved in running them are much the same.

Whether you want your own storefront, a kiosk in a mall, an e-commerce store or anything in between, this essential guide covers everything you need to know. Successful retailers and retail experts nationwide share their real-life experiences and insights on:

  • Selecting merchandise that will fly off shelves
  • Designing your store to welcome customers and encourage purchases
  • Day-to-day operations, from running the cash register to computing daily profits
  • Tracking inventory and preventing theft
  • Hiring great employees and training them to provide stellar customer service
  • Setting prices to maximize profits
  • And more!

Strike out on your own and set up the retail business of your dreams.






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Tutoring as a Successful Business - An Expert Tutor Shows You How


Master tutor, Eileen Shapiro, reveals the secrets of her 28 years of success: how to tutor everyone from preschoolers through college and adults, how to set-up and promote a part-time or full-time professional tutoring business, and how to tutor your children at home.





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Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution (Microsoft Executive Leadership Series)


This groundbreaking guide provides a deep understanding of how to achieve enterprise performance management objectives, backed up by first-hand accounts from Fortune 500 companies who are winning by building accountability, intelligence, and informed decision-making into their organizational DNA. Drive Business Performance explains the competitive advantage experienced by organizations that create and manage a "Culture of Performance."





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The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy


All across the globe, companies large and small are making a tremendous difference in the lives of others and, in turn, are enhancing employee performance, boosting morale, lowering turnover, and heightening brand recognition. In The Business of Changing the World, Marc Benioff and 19 other leaders share their corporate philanthropy secrets for the first time, revealing how any company can start their own program and reap enormous benefits.

This inspiring collection of testimonies brings to light the need for community giving, the challenges of implementing a philanthropic initiative, and the qualities CEOs must possess in order to make their programs a success. Most important, it highlights the tremendous rewards society and businesses stand to earn.

These are just a few of the extraordinary leaders you'll hear from:

  • Michael Dell explains how making a commitment to environmentally sustainable products isn't just the right thing to do-it makes good business sense
  • Alan Hassenfeld, the chairman of Hasbro-a pioneer of the integrated corporation-shares why he believes he owes a “debt” to the children of the world and how Hasbro expanded its reach beyond the playroom
  • UPS CEO Mike Eskew demonstrates how his company delivers on its legacy by adhering to a set of core values
  • Timberland president and CEO Jeffrey Swartz tells how, by integrating social justice into its business model, the company represents the apex in innovation in CSR
  • Michael Milken reveals how applying best business approaches to healthcare and education can have a positive impact on the U.S. economy

In The Business of Changing the World, these trailblazers reveal why your company can-and should-start making the world a better place.






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Bad News: How America's Business Press Missed the Story of the Century


The role of the business press in the current financial crisis strikes at the heart of the heated debate about the media’s role as guardians of our democratic society. With contributions from leading journalists and academics at the forefront of this issue,Bad Newsis the first attempt to navigate through a controversy that will be studied for decades to come.





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Starting A Cake Business: How To Start A Cake Decorating Business


This book is about starting a cake business. Learn how to set up your cake baking and cake decorating business, including marketing, lowering your taxes and organizing your business. It also reveals "insider" baking secrets, professional baking tips, and special ways to easily make more money. Time management secrets and a unique action plan are also provided to you.





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Harrap's French and English Business Dictionary (Harrap's Dictionaries)


“More than just a business dictionary, a genuine guide to the whole business world.” —Le Figaro

The most authoritative, up-to-date reference of everyday business language, Harrap’s French and English Business Dictionary offers more than 40,000 references, with usage examples throughout. This invaluable resource also provides tips on working with translators, articles on meeting protocol, information on nations of the world and administrative divisions, and explanations of financial statements in French and English.






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Harvard Business Review on Innovation


In today's ever-changing economic landscape, innovation has become even more of a key factor influencing strategic planning. This helpful volume will help the reader recognize and seize innovation opportunities. The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious business people in organizations around the globe. Contents: Creating New Market Space by W. Chan Kim and Renee A. Mauborgne; Creating Breakthroughs at 3M by Eric von Hippel, Stefan Thomke, and Mary Sonnack; Building an Innovation Factory by Andrew Hargadon and Robert I. Sutton; Knowing a Winning Business Idea When You See One by W. Chan Kim and Renee A. Mauborgne; Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdorf; Discovering New Points of Differentiation by Ian C. MacMillan and Rita Gunther McGrath; From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as Beta Site for Business Innovation by Rosabeth Moss Kanter; and Enlightened Experimentation: The New Imperative for Innovation by Stefan Thomke.





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Business NLP For Dummies


Achieve business success with Neuro-linguistic Programming

People around the globe use NLP to improve their communication skills, build rapport, make positive changes, and accomplish their goals. When used in a business context, NLP techniques can transform both your own and your team’s performances. This practical guide to NLP at work will help you increase your flexibility, become more influential, and achieve professional success, whatever your career.

• Use NLP techniques in the workplace – overcome barriers to success and develop a winning mindset

• Build effective working relationships – improve your communication skills and create rapport with your colleagues

• Lead people to perform – enhance your ability to inspire peak performance

• Make changes that drive success – set and achieve ambitious goals






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