Partnership

The decision to allow esoteric traditions to become widely available is not in itself a mistake; sometimes the prudent choice is to hide valuable knowledge in a public place. But the consequences will usually include a merchandising of the information at the level of a parlor game by persons whose consciousness is dominated by what Eckhart called "merchant-mindedness." Those with serious interests in spirituality should consult the work of Helen Palmer, Claudio Naranjo, Oscar Ichazo, Sandra Maitri, and A. H. Almaas.

I am a law student and bought this book for a paper I was writing. This book was useless. It does not cover any of the "real" issues surrounding Family Limited Partnerships such as IRS scrutiny and valuation discounts. I do not think this book would be helpful to anyone considering a Family Limited Partnership. I would go so far as to say this book could be misleading to someone considering a FLP.

Usually, Gilbert's are my legal Bibles. But I must critique this one. Instead of updating the old 1982 text line by line, Conviser just adds the 1995 edits at the back of the book. Now surely, some law professor could have received tenure editing this legal aid. Worse, the old text never has signals which say to now look at the revision. I don't know if it was just my copy or what, but the table of contents was not in order. Usually Gilbert's have a nice outline in the front. This Gilbert's outline was crammed together and illegible. Still, this Gilbert's isn't long and reading it made me realize that agency/partnership is not too difficult.

This book is page after page of only general information about forms of business; the sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, and limited liability corporation. Yet the book was advertised as a book dealing specifically with Kansas businesses. The Kansas information is less than a tenth of the book and seems only an afterthought.

The author also doesn't seem to understand LLCs or how they are replacing the S Corporation.

The information found in this book is information any serious entrepreneur would have already seen on the web. Today we expect a print source to contain special or value-added information for the price we are paying. I encourage the reader to first find all information you can on the web , as it will easily be more than is contained in this book.

I awaited the arrival of this book with great anticipation, but was extremely disappointed by the actual product. The authors are consultants and it shows. The book is filled with a lot of nice buzz words which don't really say much of anything. My impression is that while their actual presentations to clients are probably useful, they tried to make this book so generally applicable as to render it largely useless.

This is one of the first books that I have read in a long time that never inspired that "aha" moment... when you say... wow, I'd never thought of that before. I slogged my way through the entire book hoping that I might find that moment. Instead you get such amazing insights as listen to your employees and manage interpersonal relationships. In addition, the authors spend a lot of time talking about Chaos and Complexity without really telling you much about how to use those concepts. For those interested in complexity and chaos and the work of the Santa Fe Institute I would suggest you skip this book and instead go for James Gleick's "Chaos" or Mitchell Waldrop's "Complexity" - a much better investment of your time and effort.