By The Scotwork Team | 18.12.14
Pipes of Peace
On Christmas Day 1914 the guns fell silent on no mans land. English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish Soldiers emerged from…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 11.12.14
Chore Wars
Who does the housework in your house? Seems this is a much bigger issue than you might think. Or maybe…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 04.12.14
Bhopal
An American President (depending on your politics it could be any American President since Eisenhower) visits a class of 9…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 20.11.14
Accountants Are All Torque
At first glance there may not seem much in common between Formula One racing and chartered accountancy. So the news…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 13.11.14
A Winning Package
There has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth lately amongst the chattering classes and politicians in the UK and,…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 06.11.14
Yes But… I Have a Strategy
Frequently people want to talk about their negotiating strategy. My immediate (if private) reaction to this is “oh dear!!” Negotiation…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 30.10.14
Infallibility
There is a sweet story about a car mechanic who is fixing the engine of the car belonging to an…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 23.10.14
Business. Survival of the Nastiest?
There are three things that stick out for me from the new series of The Apprentice. The first is that…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 16.10.14
Complicated Games
This week the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Professor Jean Tirole for his writings on the regulation…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 09.10.14
Get Real About Emotions
We’ve all been trained to hide our emotions in a business environment—especially during negotiation. Keep your emotions out of negotiations…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 25.09.14
Universalists of the World – Beware
Imagine this scenario. You are driving through city streets as a passenger with a colleague at the wheel. He is…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 18.09.14
Why I Like Negotiating
Publishing this on the day the Scottish population votes on Independence, we are no different from any of the other…
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