I've tried, and struggled (I'm not a finance whiz... I write software) to create a strategy for using my stock options without the counsel of professional help. Learn from my experience. Reading this book, or any other book such as Robert Pastore's "Stock Options" will not equip you to make strategy decisions for exercising your options (unless you're gifted in finance). You will need a CPA and or financial planner.

Until I was granted options, I had no clue what stock options were or the issues that I would face. Having read this and other books, I'm now better educated about the issues but I was only given a vague idea of what to do practically/strategically.

Don't expect Ms. Thomas' book to provide "strategy advice" expect it to provide facts; and lots of them. Read her book and other's with the intention of going to someone whose full-time job it is to help you with issues in exercising your options. You will be well equiped to test what you're being told and you'll be ready to receive and act upon (or reject as I've also learned) real "strategic advice"