Strategy. Leadership. Training & Development. The 10 Key Legal Documents for Your Business. Documents play an essential role in protecting the interests of the business and business owners over the course of a company’s lifetime. Here is a list of the 10 most common legal documents to help you determine what your business needs. 1. Company bylaws for corporations. Most states require corporations to keep a written record of bylaws, although you don’t need to file the document with a state office. Bylaws define how the company will govern itself. Even if your company is incorporated in the handful of states that don’t require bylaws, they are still a good idea as they spell out your business’ structure, individual roles, and governance issues.
Related: The Legal Ins and Outs of Forming a Partnership 2. Your minutes should be detailed enough to serve as your corporation’s “institutional memory.” 3. 4. Related: Rocket Lawyer: Cutting Out Small Business Attorneys' Fees 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. In most cases, you don’t need to create any of these documents from scratch.
BODY LANGUAGE. Note to Managers: Positivity Matters. Want to Succeed in Consulting? 3 Ways to Get Paid for Your Wisdom | BNET. Last Updated Sep 12, 2011 4:19 PM EDT Through writing this blog I recently made a friend all the way over in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ben Whitaker is a U.S. expat and reader who is running a company focused on selling high-end IT services to the mining industry. Here's what Ben wrote to me: One topic I'm concerned about is my current strategy of doing analysis and recommendations as a proposal, then seeing that 4-page document get sent out the door by the prospective client as more or less an RFP to my competition.Have you written a piece about that? OK, how many of us have had to deal with the problem of free consulting that Ben's describing? In the world of selling expertise, you must show your expertise first in order to prove that someone should pay you for it. Ben is describing a really thorny, but frequent challenge. 1) Create a custom, self-branded assessment process. 2) The assessment is valuable and therefore carries a fee.
Photo courtesy of Flickr kate e. did cc. 10 Things Managers Should Never Do | BNET. Last Updated Oct 25, 2011 11:29 AM EDT We've all had bosses do things we didn't like, appreciate, or respect. And every manager has done things they later regret. The business world is, by necessity, one of real-time decisions and judgment calls that sometimes turn out to be bad choices, in retrospect. After all, nobody's perfect. We all make mistakes. But sometimes a mistake can become a slippery slope. In 10 Things Great Managers Do, I went back in time to the best characteristics of the best CEOs I've worked for and with over the past 30 years. Keep in mind, this isn't meant to be a whine-fest to get employees riled up and pissed off at their bosses. 10 Things Managers Should Never Do Order people around like dictators. Forget about customers. Behave like arrogant jerks that are better than others.
Let their egos write checks that reality can't cash. Publicly eviscerate employees. Wall off their feelings. Surround themselves with bureaucrats, BSers, and yes-men. Threaten. Habits of the World’s Wealthiest People (Infographic)