Even Ceos Get Fired - by Jotham Stein (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><em>Even CEOs Get Fired</em> is a lively, clear, and comprehensive guide to contract negotiations and employment law, with practical advice for everyone - from C-Suite execs and founders, to fresh-out-of-undergrad new hires.</p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Even CEOS Get Fired is a lively read about how employees, executives, and entrepreneurs protect themselves in employment and business and how you can too. Based on 25 years of experience protecting entrepreneurs, executives and employees around the country, preeminent Silicon Valley lawyer Jotham Stein walks you through the best practices, common pitfalls, and sky's-the-limit possibilities in the various stages of your career. From strong employment agreements to top notch separation/severance agreements and everything in between, Even CEOs Get Fired describes it all. In addition to all the straight talk about protecting yourself, you?ll be captivated by 59 fictional entrepreneur and executive stories on a wide range of employment situations that will probably leave you thinking, "hey, this happened to someone I know." If you wind up thinking, "hey, this happened to me," Even CEOs Get Fired talks about your professional reincarnation and Stein describes how fired entrepreneurs, executives and employees often call him six months later to tell him that the best thing that ever happened to them was that they got fired. Each chapter of Even CEOs Get Fired focuses on a particular issue, mixing straightforward actionable advice with engaging fictional stories. If you are just starting out, in mid-career, or considering jumping into entrepreneurship, you will learn how to negotiate like a CEO. If you are already a successful entrepreneur or executive, you will appreciate Stein's explanation of how to maximize your leverage by focusing on your personal bottom line. In Even CEOs Get Fired, Stein also explains in accessible terms the words and clauses that really matter in offer letters, employment agreements, stock option agreements, restricted stock agreements, separation/severance agreements, change in control agreements and much more. Even CEOs Get Fired is an indispensable guide to protecting yourself in business and employment and essential for anyone trying to understand the dynamics at play in any work situation and how best to use them to protect yourself, your family and your friends.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The best there is. Literally." ?Boris Feldman, Head of US Technology Practice, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer "Jotham has helped me throughout my career, from setting up strong employment agreements to securing stock compensation to protecting the management team during the sale of my company. Jotham is a guy you want in your corner. His book should be required reading for any exec who thinks 'this could never happen to me.'" Andy Cohen, founder and former CEO, Caring.com "As a CEO and multi-time Silicon Valley executive, I was very fortunate to learn from Jotham early in my career the great importance of the protective employment offer letter. Employment law is very complex and with this book you can learn from the best." ?Bonnie Crater, co-founder and CEO, Full Circle Insights; former SVP salesforce.com; former SVP Genesys; former VP Oracle; former VP Netscape "I relied on Jotham when I was an exec at public companies ? now my business relies on him to help it grow. Best lawyer for execs and entrepreneurs I know." Michael Archer, CEO Common Interest Management Services; former SVP, Dun & Bradstreet; former President and CMO, Corporate Executive Board (now Gartner) "Jotham is a very valued legal adviser who also provides broad and pragmatic business guidance to our medical clinic and has for years!" ?Gregory Buncke, M.D., Director The Buncke Clinic "One of the best entrepreneurial lawyers I have had the pleasure to work with." ?Scott VanDeVelde, co-founder and former CEO 12 Digit Marketing Inc.; former Chief Revenue Officer, Dotomi Inc.; former Executive Vice President, Conversant Inc. "Jotham has been invaluable to me for decades in critical areas as employment agreements and company acquisitions." Scott Eagle, co-founder and CEO, MDM Enterprise Solutions, Inc.; co-founder and former COO, 12 Digit Marketing, Inc.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jotham S. Stein is the principal of the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C., in Palo Alto, California, and St. Charles, Illinois (www.jotham.com). For more than twenty years, his law firm has represented entrepreneurs, C-Suite executives, board members, and senior managers, as well as less senior employees of all types and size companies. Firm attorneys work on employment agreements, separation agreements, M&A agreements, change in control agreements, stock option agreements, and much more. Jotham is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Princeton University. He is admitted to practice in California, Illinois, New York, Colorado and the District of Columbia as well as the United States Supreme Court, United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits and several United States District Courts. He has also served as part-time General Counsel of a high-technology Silicon Valley company. He is the author of the legal textbook and professional guide: Executive Employment Law: Protecting Executives, Entrepreneurs and Employees (first published by Oxford University Press, now in its seventh edition, with Lexis/Nexis). In Even CEOs Get Fired, Jotham brings this wealth of experience to a general audience. The book is an engaging read meant for everyone. It provides colorful detail and great insight regarding what happens at the top of major companies, businesses, and corporations. It also provides direct and invaluable advice to people at every level of the corporate world, helping them to succeed there and protect themselves.
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