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Protect Your Company by Keeping Your Employees in the Loop
Each week, I receive requests from clients who ask me to review and comment on a variety of confidentiality, non-disclosure agreements [often referred to as "NDAs"]. These have become part of the fabric of getting a deal done... and they carry serious financial consequences if they are violated.

Surveys Encourage Customer Feedback
In order to keep clients coming back, customers’ feedback is essential. It is the catalyst that will lead to necessary changes that will encourage repeat business and continual customer loyalty.
Mediation: A Better Way of Doing Business
Explains how mediation can help the busines owner to resolve thorny problems with employees or suppliers and distinguishes mediation from arbitration.
Management of Intellectual Property- Finding your Forgotten Business Asset.
For a service business it is particularly important to identify and manage Intellectual Property (IP). This article explains what IP is and how you can use it to benefit your business.

Massachusetts Enacts Legislation To Protect Personal Information
Massachusetts has joined other states, including California, Texas, New York, Oregon, and Maryland, to enact legislation that protects the privacy of personal information. The regulations apply to any businesses or individuals that own, license, store or maintain personal information about a state resident.

New laws protect the privacy of Social Security numbers for New York residents
Quick summary of legislation in New York regarding employers' responsibility for privacy of Social Security numbers.
New laws governing the confidentiality of social security numbers affect Connecticut employers
Summary of new regulations that cover Connecticut employers and employee privacy.
Should you blog?
Blogging has become very popular in the last few months and even the most non-technical of my clients are now talking about using a blog to promote their businesses. But, what exactly is a blog and should you set one up?
Sample Term Sheet
If the venture capitalists are interested, they will very quickly come up with a draft term sheet for you which gives an overview of the conditions under which they would make an investment in your company. (see next page for a sample term sheet).
Entrepreneurs Business Brokers and success
A few important issues to consider when looking for a Business Broker to help you buy or sell a business.
Creating a contract - protecting yourself and your business
In business, a well designed contract protects you from any unknown variables, much like an insurance policy. You pay for the policy, hoping that you’ll never have to use it. More specifically, a contract helps you manage and avoid potential risks. Due to the unpredictability of the business world, smart professionals create contracts to reduce any unnecessary costs and minimize all risks.

The Value of a Trustworthy Executive Assistant
Being trustworthy is about how you conduct yourself. It goes without saying that you should always default to being trustworthy from the get-go. It will take diligence and personal integrity to know where the line is and to remain always on the right side of it. The line is not vastly wide as though it could accommodate any number of methods of living. Trustworthiness doesn't accommodate on again-off again vacillating activities. People who know where the line is will work hard to build trustworthiness. They will not cut corners or take rash chances with trust.

Other confidentiality Related Articles

Sample Non Disclosure Agreement
An intermediary should always sign a confidentiality or non-disclosure agreement (NDA). It is a 1 to 5 page document that acknowledges you have sensitive information that if released could harm your business and it should not be shared. Venture capitalists, however, will not normally sign a confidentiality agreement. They see so many companies in the same industry that they cannot sign one agreement and risk not being able to invest in other potential good deals.
Corporate confidentiality
A brief on the underlying wisdom of corporate confidentiality.
Non-Disclosure and Confidentiality
Suppose you are just getting to bed. All the day’s activities and tomorrow’s plans have finally managed to settle down to the point where you are almost able to fall asleep. Then it suddenly hits you: The single greatest idea since the invention of ideas! You get that flash of inspiration you know will turn your life on its ear and revolutionise the world. Congratulations! But now what? If your idea is half as great as you believe it is, how can you talk about it to someone and be sure they are not going to steal it for themselves? The answer is simple: you need a Confidentiality Agreement.
Virtual Machine Checkpointing in High-Availability Environments
In commercial environments, integrity is key to business operation; in many cases, confidentiality is ignored for the assurance of integrity. Integrity is the basis for different disk management schemes which leads to assurance. Assurance in terms of service availability is important for the mitigation of failure. By holding a strong base in integrity, systems can be made available quickly even after catastrophic failure. Virtual machine monitors offer separation between virtual machines to offer confidentiality; properly configured, two virtual machines are unable to communicate with each other outside of their design (barring unknown covert channels). The compromise of one virtual machine within a system does not imply the compromise of another.
Linking Your Employees to Their Why Factor - Why Is That Important?
The best leaders are the ones who are focused on bringing out the best in their people – transforming lives. When someone has that as his purpose, the profits just naturally follow. Then the leader can determine their vision for the business based on their purpose. Dealing with what drives other people to action can be complex. There are 4 key areas that you will want to understand. Gathering answers to questions requires absolute confidentiality. When you’ve unlocked the “whys” for your employees, you will unlock some of the areas you haven’t been able to get to and become more efficient. Connect them to their “why.” In the process you’ll find out that knowing the “whys” will always move people beyond where they think that they can go. Always!
Small Business Employee Policies Series: Employee Confidentiality Policy
Protecting trade secrets is an imperative for every company. This article discusses some of the things you may want to consider in drafting a confidentiality agreement to bind your employees.

Protect Your Company by Keeping Your Employees in the Loop
Each week, I receive requests from clients who ask me to review and comment on a variety of confidentiality, non-disclosure agreements [often referred to as "NDAs"]. These have become part of the fabric of getting a deal done... and they carry serious financial consequences if they are violated.

Ethical/professional issues raised by Legal Outsourcing India
There is a five major ethical/professional conduct issues raised by LPO that is (1) Unauthorized practice of law by non-lawyers; (2) conflicts of interest; (3) client confidentiality; (4) client disclosure and consent; and (5) billing issues related to outsourcing. The Model Rules of Professional Conduct, the Formal Opinions issued by the ABA Committee on related subjects, and the recent opinion on LPO issued by the NYC Bar.

Confidentiality Agreements... Ticking Time Bombs?
How many times have you signed a new contract which included "confidentiality" or "non-disclosure" provisions and simply assumed that it was not a big deal? After all, you're a business owner with honor and integrity; you have no intention of disclosing your client's confidential and proprietary information, right? So, why worry about it? Simply sign the thing and move on to the work. Well, not so fast. Let's delve into the small print a bit and see what you just agreed to...
The pros (and a few cons) of hiring independent business auditors
Professional auditors take confidentiality seriously, and help to ensure that proper agreements are in place both internally and externally as part of the audit process. While it may take a little time for the external auditor to get up to speed on your company, it is that very process, as the objective external auditor learns the workings of your business, that enables the auditor to see opportunities, risks, and solutions that may not be as easily viewed by people closer to your company.
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