By The Scotwork Team | 17.09.15
To Type, or Not to Type… The Pitfalls of Negotiating by Email
In 1978, US President Jimmy Carter brokered the first peace agreement between Egypt and a free Jewish nation in over…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 10.09.15
You May Think That
Habits are one of the most useful things we can slip into. If we didn’t habitually do much of our…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 03.09.15
Is Risk the Best Policy?
Ever run out of petrol? Well it seems that more and more of us have. Last year over 800,000 motorists…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 27.08.15
Lesser of Two Evils
I was interested by a report I read on the NHS website on 21 August in which Public Health England…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 20.08.15
Green Lights
A few years ago I was talking to a guy at a dinner party and he, in the effort to…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 13.08.15
Mind the Doors Please
Last Wednesday evening was a bad time for two different groups of Londoners. At five o’clock the doors of several…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 06.08.15
Don’t Confuse Negotiating With Persuasion
I was recently invited to teach at a company that purchases the debts of financial institutions and then pursues the…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 30.07.15
Engendering Negotiations
Although news of a pay differential between men and women doing the same or similar jobs is nothing new, recent…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 23.07.15
Internet Shopping – Not As Much As You Could Wish For?
I was reading my newspaper recently and came across an article written by a woman journalist who was celebrating the…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 16.07.15
Rubbish Diplomacy
Two negotiated deals of historic significance. One between Greece and the EU/Eurozone, the other between Iran and the P5+1. Both…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 09.07.15
Let Me Paint You a Picture
A mate of mine recently visited New York on business and found himself with a spare half day or so,…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 02.07.15
Wrestling With an Octopus
It used to be that people had so much time on their hands that they were forever looking for things…
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