By Brian Buck | 01/28/2016
Driving with Dipped Headlights
My daughter is a fairly recent and slightly nervous driver. One of the benefits of the children getting older is…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 01/27/2016
Negotiate Well, Don’t Let Yourself Down
The ability to negotiate through conflict is obviously critical within any organisation, regardless of which side of the fence they happen…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 01/14/2016
Cinq à Sept
One of the defining qualities of a good negotiator is the ability to manufacture unusual tradeable variables apparently out of thin…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 01/07/2016
The Traitment of Junior Doctors
It occurred to me, that the most prominent current industrial dispute in England, between the Government and the Junior Doctors, might…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 12/17/2015
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
Is there a difference between telling lies or just being misleading? I guess lying, rather like beauty, may be in the…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 12/10/2015
E By Gum
Recently the Sunday Times Travel section reported an unfortunate accident. A Mr Graham Davies booked a multi-flight trip from the UK…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 12/03/2015
Strictly Come Negotiating
Here in the UK in the Autumn and the first part of Winter a televisual phenomenon hits our screens on…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 11/30/2015
Just Because You Don’t Want It!
A short but important lesson in this week’s blog. The daughter of a friend of mine decided to buy a new…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 11/19/2015
No Discussion, Just Death
George Santanaya’s maxim that ‘those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them’…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 11/12/2015
A Signal Day for Europe?
I wrote in this blog about three weeks ago about the commitment given by the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, to write to…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 11/05/2015
What now?
Am I reading this right? We’re all getting fat because we eat too much and don’t exercise enough. Right? Well, not…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 10/29/2015
Kicking the sh**t out of big business
It is fashionable for radicals to kick against the political establishment. The rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, Nicola Sturgeon…
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