Buy Signing a Business Contract? as an easy-to-read PDF for $9.99
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Checklists help professionals do their jobs with greater confidence and peace of mind. To name but one example, pilots are trained to use checklists when they perform their final pre-flight safety inspections, even after they’ve had many years of experience. You may have read other examples in the best-selling book, The Checklist Manifesto, by Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Atul Gawande.
Signing a Business Contract? provides a quick checklist to help you conduct your own final ‘pre-flight’ inspection. You’ll see examples of language that could cause your contract to have ‘in-flight difficulties’ or even to crash and burn. You’ll read heads-up alerts, in plain English with real-world examples, about crucial points such as:
1. Guard against personal liability. The book explains ways that a company contract could make you personally liable.
2. Stay out of jail. The book discusses examples of executives who have been imprisoned for unlawful but not-uncommon contracting practices.
3. Spot-check for contract provisions that could cause real problems for your business. A number of such provisions are discussed in the book, illustrated with true stories.
Most of the points covered in the book are well-known to lawyers and to experienced business people. Even so, it’s surprising how often they get overlooked, even by smart people with lots of experience, as demonstrated by some of the real-world examples in the e-book.
Buy the book as an easy-to-read PDF for $9.99 (via e-junkie.com)
Contract review: A final checklist
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This looks like a terrific and useful book. Is there a way we can get (buy) a non-Kindle version of this book? For example, I would be interested in a PDF that we can download and print. I would like to use this for our office, and Kindle is not the best format for office use.
Thank you,
Jessica
For the benefit of readers who don’t know this, I responded to Jessica by private email the day she made the above comment. In a nutshell, I said I likely would be posting a PDF for sale someplace, but haven’t gotten to it yet. [UPDATE: I added a link to buy a PDF copy in the main posting.]