Stock Options-Getting Your Share of the Action: Negotiating Shares and Terms in Incentive and Nonqualified Plans

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Nearly 10 million Americans receive stock options, up from 1 million a decade ago. At most of today's start-up companies, as well as at many large ones such as Starbucks Corp., Coke, and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., stock options are the "real money" being put on the table for valued employees. More companies are following the trend towards employee stock options, and individuals who know how to take advantage of such incentives can become rich. Millions of workers now face compensation decisions that used to be presented exclusively to executive insiders. Tom Taulli, who writes a semi-monthly column on stock options for CBS MarketWatch, has written a practical, readable how-to book for the expanding ranks of employees at companies that award stock options. Taulli explains the basics of stock options, including vesting, exercising, and taxes. He skillfully guides readers through the complex language and logic of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, contract terms, and securities laws. Taulli shows readers how to negotiate for the best contract and what to do once the options are in place. He provides guidance on using hedging strategies, reducing estate taxes, and getting the right professional advice. He also explains researching stock options, finding out what "developmental stage" a company is in, and recognizing the pitfalls of stock options, such as insider trading and Rule 144. Tom Taulli has successfully negotiated stock option deals for himself, has advised others how to do the same, and is closely connected with the network of fast-growing companies for which option compensation is now the coin of the realm.

Smart advice on:
* Different types of stock options, including warrants
* Negotiating the best terms
* Tax considerations
* Strategies for diversification
* Web resources and other useful tools
* Concerns for estate planning and divorce
* Finding the best advisers
* Who's who inside the top law firms

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Employee Stock Options the Easy Way.......2001-08-28

I'm a programmer based in Silicon Valley and have received stock options over the years. No question, there is a lot of misinformation on the subject. Then again, the subject is extremely complex! However, when reading Taulli's book, things became much clearer. The sections on AMT were especially done well. If you want to understand your stock options, Taulli's book is a great choice.

Stock Options are Understandable for the First Time.......2001-05-31

Congradulations, Tom. Finally, someone has written a book that is understandable and readable for the financially saavy and not so saavy tech employee... This book contains information that is essential for (i) the employee who is interested in knowing the good and less than good about stock options and (ii) the executive and board who needs to correctly incentivize the employee base. Tom's book outlines the types of options available, how options work, and their tax and securities law treatments. The section on negotiation is particularly interesting and contains information not often available in a book directed at those of us who don't care to read a legal treatise. This book is well worth the read. Good luck and may your stock options be everything you hope them to be.

Good Guidance.......2001-05-06

I wish I would have read this book before I exercised my options, I would have paid alot less to uncle sam. If you want to make sure you get the most money for your options, I'd get a copy of this book. The tax implications can get complicated and Tom lends clear guidance and strategies.

Got My Share.......2001-05-06

This book tremendously helped me negotiate a good option plan for a private company I recently went to work for. I would have taken the company's original offer and would have overlooked important terms in my plan and if I did not read this book. Anyone who is offered an option plan must read this book. I can not stress it enough. I learned they are as negotiable as my salary and benefits. It scares me to think of what I would have left on the table.

Everything You Need to Know About Stock Options.......2001-05-06

I have been a fan of Tom Taulli's writing for some time now. I highly recommend this book to any financial advisor, broker, or person who has stock options. He makes the tax and financial planning implications of stock options easy to understand. In addition, the book offers many useful tips and pitfalls to avoid from happening.

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Learning Paths Teach You How To See Training In A New Way

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Learning Paths: Increase Profits by Reducing the Time It Takes Employees to Get Up-to-Speed
Steve Rosenbaum , and Jim Williams
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Learning Paths is a down-to-earth practical resource that is filled with illustrative examples, methods, techniques, strategies, processes, and tools for making company-wide, real-time training possible. Created to be flexible, the Learning Path approach can be customized to fit your organization no matter what its type or size. Learning Paths is divided into three sections:

The Learning Path Methodology: Walks the reader through the major steps and strategies needed for building Learning Paths.

Doing the Right Training: Offers a wide-range of strategies, methods and techniques that can be targeted to the training within a Learning Path and tied to an organization’s particular business needs.

Do the Training Right: Shows how to ensure the training within a Learning Path is delivered in the most cost-effective manner and introduces methods for structuring training so that it transfers to the job easily and effectively.

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Learning Paths Teach You How To See Training In A New Way.......2004-09-20

"Learning Paths" by Rosenbaum and Williams takes an innovative look at training and how people develop beyond "graduation day" to "independence day". This book is chuck full of great ideas that anyone with basic training and curriculum development ability should be able to implement within 30 days. My three favorite ideas: shorten the training cycle time to get people productive quicker, proficient at what they need to do, not just trained with skills/competencies. Secondly, the 30/30 jump start CD Kit helps you actually do what they suggest .. I love it. And finally, this book will help those who want to make the transition from trainer to performance consultant, helping get real business results. I can't wait for the follow-up "field book" on learning paths.

Really Different and Unique.......2004-08-29

This book describes an approach to training that is really different and unique. I can see how to use it with my consulting business to organize and get more out of corporate training initiatives. I highly recommend it to anyone in HR, Training or Management. The book is written in a very friendly and easy to read manner.

Very Timely, Very Practical.......2004-08-28

This book will help anyone build more effective and measurable training. It's approach to measuring and reducing time to profieincy is truely unique. If you've been asked to link training to six sigma or ROI, you'll find answers in this book. With the CD and the tool kit, it makes it simple and easy to implement the methodology.

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This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the U.S. to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy.

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Must read as an astronomer.......2002-12-28

This is a masterful compilation of the history of the oldest scientific institution of the United States. The perspectives of Dr. Dick were thoughtful and very interesting. Many of the realtionships of the past half century were interesting when viewed from the point of view of today. Many decisions made during the reviewer's tenure at this institution did not strike one at the time as being made with a lot of consideration. From Dr. Dick's review many of them now make a lot more sense in the context of history. They were made by people who had a lot of expertise and a great deal of vision.

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Describes the physical and organic chemistry of the reactions by which polymer molecules are synthesized. Begins by introducing the characteristics which distinguish polymers from their much smaller sized homologs. Proceeds to a detailed study of three types of polymerization reactions: step, chain and ring-opening. Reactions are characterized as to their kinetic and thermodynamic features, their scope and utility for synthesis of different types of polymer structures, and the process conditions which are used to carry them out. Assumes a background in organic and physical chemistry and can serve as either a self-teaching guide to polymers for the beginner or as a handy reference for the experienced polymer chemist. Each chapter includes a selection of problems to aid learning and a solutions manual is available on request.

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The new edition of a classic text and reference

The large chains of molecules known as polymers are currently used in everything from "wash and wear" clothing to rubber tires to protective enamels and paints. Yet the practical applications of polymers are only increasing; innovations in polymer chemistry constantly bring both improved and entirely new uses for polymers onto the technological playing field. Principles of Polymerization, Fourth Edition presents the classic text on polymer synthesis, fully updated to reflect today's state of the art. New and expanded coverage in the Fourth Edition includes:

* Metallocene and post-metallocene polymerization catalysts
* Living polymerizations (radical, cationic, anionic)
* Dendrimer, hyperbranched, brush, and other polymer architectures and assemblies
* Graft and block copolymers
* High-temperature polymers
* Inorganic and organometallic polymers
* Conducting polymers
* Ring-opening polymer ization
* In vivo and in vitro polymerization

Appropriate for both novice and advanced students as well as professionals, this comprehensive yet accessible resource enables the reader to achieve an advanced, up-to-date understanding of polymer synthesis. Different methods of polymerization, reaction parameters for synthesis, molecular weight, branching and crosslinking, and the chemical and physical structure of polymers all receive ample coverage. A thorough discussion at the elementary level prefaces each topic, with a more advanced treatment following. Yet the language throughout remains straightforward and geared towards the student.

Extensively updated, Principles of Polymerization, Fourth Edition provides an excellent textbook for today's students of polymer chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science, as well as a current reference for the researcher or other practitioner working in these areas.

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Must read for polymer chemistry!.......2003-11-01

Odian offers a comprehensive guide to polymer chemistry, covering nearly all the types of polymerization, exploring radical, ionic, step, and copolymerization mechanisms and kinetics in sufficient detail. Some recent advances in polymer synthesis are not covered, but book offers enough knowledge to have a good grasp of all aspects of polymerizations. A must read for anyone considering a career or education in polymer synthesis!

Great text book!.......2001-11-04

I took a course last year in Polymer Chemistry and this text was the standard text book. It was an amazingly great reference book. This book mainly target on Polymerization synthesis and characterization. If you are interested in the mechanical properties of polymer, you should look for other one. But this is a must for all polymer chemists and material scientists who are interested in polymer processing.

A handy reference.......2000-12-16

I have been using this book for several years, including a term where it was the primary text for a graduate-level Introduction to Polymers course. As textbooks go, I have found this one relatively easy to read, and the concepts easy to follow. It it quite comprehensive, but assumes an undergraduate background in organic and physical chemistry. Since the course, it has been a handy reference in my research, though, as someone else noted, it is lacking in respect to living polymerizations, particularly Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. However, Odian's work remains one of the most useful textbooks from my graduate classes.

The standard text for teaching polymer chemistry........1999-06-26

The number of concepts covered in this book is amazing -- I learn something new with each reading. The book is also great for pointing you to the leading references in the field; although it is lacking decent coverage of living polymerization. Odian's book is not easy to read. For a chemistry book it includes relatively few chemical structures or mechanisms, so for students who don't already know chemistry it is a rather useless introduction A better introductory polymer chemistry book is by M. Stevens.

Impressive, despite recent reviews to the contrary........1996-07-22

Encyclopedic and comprehensive, this text ought to be the sole reference work for undergrads and graduates in the field of polymer science.

Physical Polymer Science 3rd Edition with Principles Polymerization 4th Edition Set

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Physical Polymer Science 3rd Edition with Principles Polymerization 4th Edition Set
Leslie Howard Sperling
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For Odian's Principles of Polymerization, 4th Edition:

The new edition of this classic textbook describes the physical and organic chemistry of the reactions that produce polymers. Three primary features distinguish this book from the competition: 1) each topic is prefaced with a thorough discussion at the elementary level, assuming at most only a limited background in physical and organic chemistry. 2) the presentation and writing are geared for the student. 3) each topic is subsequently considered at an advanced level, allowing both the novice and more accomplished student to achieve an advanced understanding of polymer synthesis.

For Sperling's Introduction to Physical Polymer Science, 3rd Edition:

A thoroughly updated edition of the successful introductory textbook in polymer science first published nearly 20 years ago. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in one and two semester courses (as well as for professional chemists in industry), the book emphasizes interrelationships between molecular structure and the morphology and mechanical behavior of polymers. This edition includes new chapters on polymer surfaces and interfaces, as well as information on solid-state NMR, self-assembled polymers, scaling law basics, polymer processing, hyperbranched dendrimers, and the kinetics of polymerization.

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Very sound arguments.......2007-09-24

Marvin Lubenow offers a riveting work that has proved to be sound, intellectual research in the field of paleoanthropology. His topics and evidence threatened to give the evolutionary community something to think about. Bones of Contention is a solid contribution to one's study of the ancient world.
Lubenow is a creationist and makes no qualms about it. However, he is also a lover of anthropology. He goes into the history of a number of fossils and how they come to be found. He traces the major evolutionary findings known to date and brings out a number of discrepancies that are little known to a layman in anthropology. Not only is there a small amount of fossil evidence for ancient periods, but also proves that many of the intepretations given to the fossils that have been found are questionable if not scrupulous. He examines the findings of some of the most reknown anthropologists such as Leakey, Dubois, Salenka, etc.
A great portion of the book catalogues the history of neandertals and the amount of debate that exists about who the neandertals really are. His understanding of the debate is very thorough and some of his conclusions are surprising. His information about the Sima de los Huesos cave in Spain provides shocking evidence and makes one wonder why so little is heard about it. The implications found in the Simas cave as well as others would change the way we look at Neandertal forever.
All in all this is an excellent work and I cannot sing enough praise for it. This is perhaps one of the best works on the apologetics of anthropology that I have yet to read. It is not easy to walk away from this book and shrug off the evidence listed in it because it is quite complete.

A Critique of Ink, Paper, and Unscientific Dogma.......2007-09-05

Many in our culture today believe that the theory of Evolution should never be questioned or criticized. For such people it is as though Darwinism is as certain as the fact that the earth goes round the sun. In fact, I too had this same attitude throughout my life as a young atheist. As one who was raised on a diet of evolutionary theory, I can understand such dogmatic mindsets. After all, I too was not only an evolutionist and atheist - but I was an evangelistic atheist who sought to "convert" poor Christians to the majority viewpoint. All of this is now a part of my past - before I became a Christian, and before I ever endeavored to examine the subject outside of the pale of our modern education system in which nothing is accepted as true unless it pays direct homage to that popular deity Evolution, and its revered prophet - Charles Darwin. It is because of this background of mine that I found Bones of Contention, by Marvin Lubenow, to be a challenging read. The challenge that I encountered had to do with the fact that references to Neanderthal man, Java man and Homo erectus (among others) conflicted harshly with the academic social-engineering of my youth - where alternative viewpoints are not allowed to be mentioned. The challenge that I had was to read this book while leaving my past programming behind - a process that is always necessary whenever one wishes to evaluate evidence by the value of its merit, rather than by the value of its legendary status within a society. In fact, this is one of the central values of Lubenow's work. He helps the reader to analyze the scientific data that is used in support of evolution, but without the bias of men like Dawkins who would have us to forgo any critical analysis of Darwinism simply because he said so.

This is why Bones of Contention is such a crucial work.

No matter what your background is, I would strongly recommend that you read this book. Lubenow gives a clear and rigorous presentation of the history of Evolution. From the days of Darwin to the present, Lubenow reveals the precarious evolution of the philosophy of Darwinism by revealing how "Any series of objects created by humans (or God) can be arranged in such a way as to make it look as if they had evolved when in fact they were created independently by an intelligent being." p. 21.

He also notes that popular opinions in our society are often governed by an undiscerning public that believes in the infallibility of contemporary scientists as though they were "paragons of objectivity who have no philosophical axes to grind." p. 18. Lubenow calls the reader to an open and honest evaluation of the empirical data that is often messaged and manipulated in order to facilitate the premise of evolution. As a result of his research, he has concluded the following:

"We have all seen pictures of the impressive sequence allegedly leading to modern humans - those small, primitive, stooped creatures gradually evolving into big, beautiful you and me. What is not generally known is that this sequence, impressive as it seems, is a very artificial and arbitrary arrangement because (1) some fossils are selectively excluded if they do not fit will into the evolutionary scheme; (2) some human fossils are arbitrarily downgraded to make them appear to be evolutionary ancestors when they are in fact true humans; and (3) some nonhuman fossils are upgraded to make them appear to be human ancestors." p. 21.

Lubenow is careful to point out that Darwinism is a subjective philosophy that is designed to reduce the universe (biotic and abiotic) to that which is the product of an unguided, naturalistic process (p. 191). Without empirical data, evolution stands as nothing more than an atheistic philosophy. Even Darwin comprehended the tenuous nature of his proposed theory. What he developed on ink and paper was a philosophy whose fate would rest in the hands of future scientists:

"Geological research, though it has added numerous species to existing and extinct genera, and has made the intervals between some few groups less wide than they otherwise would have been, yet has done scarcely anything in breaking down the distinction between species, by connecting them together by numerous, fine, intermediate varieties; and this not having been effected, is probably the gravest and most obvious of all the many objections which may be urged against my views." Darwin, The Origin of Species, Chapter 9, On the Imperfection of the Geological Record.

It is this crucial interval of research, from the days of Darwin to the present, that Lubenow reveals to the reader. Overall he shows that Darwin began with nothing more that ink, paper, and wistful hope; and to this day, his followers have advanced his legacy with nothing more than ink, paper, and unscientific dogma.

The Best Book on Human Fossils.......2007-05-24

This is an insightful and well-researched survey of the hominid fossils commonly used to sell evolution: Java Man, Lucy, Neandertal....they're all here. But this book deconstructs the way they've been presented to the public, and makes for an entertaining read in the process.

I especially enjoyed the details about who gets to see the fossils and the incredible amount of security involved in protecting them. The chapter on the Piltdown mystery is also intriguing. And the findings of the recent RATE project were eye-opening.

The analysis in this book is irrefutable and doesn't bode well for old-school Darwinists. I'm amazed at the amount of research the author must've put into this.

Have the shallow, glossy stories in Time or National Geographic that trumpet some new hominid discovery left you intellectually unfulfilled? Then you'd probably enjoy this book. That little voice in your head that balks at the artists' renditions and speculative declarations of the Darwinists is called Science. This book sheds a bright scientific light on the whole subject, and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who has any nagging questions about "ape-men."

My only complaint is that I wish there were more illustrations/ photographs.

captivating, informative, and reasonably objective.......2006-09-26

The book is easy to read but also full of detailed factual information. What sets it apart is a refreshing, objective tone. In a non-conspiratory way, it answers a question that had been long in the back of my mind of how so many obviously intelligent scientists could contribute to the web of misinformation produced by the evolutionary community without "having an agenda." The way it explains the practical social and scientific dynamics involved is probably the single most valuable contribution of Lubenov's book. This book really earned the 5 stars I assigned it.

captivating, informative, and reasonably objective.......2006-09-26

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