By The Scotwork Team | 26.03.14
Scepticism
News pictures of distraught relatives of the passengers on flight MH370, missing now for more than 2 weeks, bring home…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 20.03.14
Thought So
Alice Walker, author of “The Colour Purple” and civil rights activist said “The most common way that people give up…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 13.03.14
Lessons in Negotiating or Putting a Price on Your Cat
I have just returned from holiday and one of the joys of a holiday is having lots of time to…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 06.03.14
Ukrainian Tractors
As the current situation in Ukraine is changing so swiftly that no one has any serious ability to predict the…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 27.02.14
Duck Quacks Don’t Echo
Just how good are we at persuasion? How gullible are you as a negotiator? Not very, you will probably tell…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 20.02.14
I Would Do Anything for Love
Valentine’s Day gone. Red Roses wilting depressingly in the vase perched on the window sill. Champagne cork stuck behind the…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 13.02.14
Cuckoo. Is the Clock Running Out On Switzerland?
Switzerland’s economy is booming at the moment, and unemployment is low, but many Swiss worry about what they see as…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 06.02.14
Freezing the Terrorists Out
The Winter Olympic Games open in Sochi this Friday, but any expectation that there would by now be a rising…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 30.01.14
That’s One Way of Looking at It!
For a man who trained as a physician at the university of Damascus and who spent two years in post…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 23.01.14
I Don’t Give a …..
Many times in the classroom I have been asked a seemingly simple question. Is everything negotiable? For an answer, take…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 09.01.14
New Year’s Evolution
New Year’s resolutions. We all do them. Although I have to say come March time they tend to have disappeared…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 19.12.13
Merry “Bloody” Christmas!
On the BBC news website in a move eerily reminiscent of Laura Ashley and John Lewis (see 28 March blog),…
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