By Brian Buck | 03.12.15
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 | 30.11.15
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 | 19.11.15
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 | 12.11.15
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 | 05.11.15
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 | 29.10.15
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…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 22.10.15
What to do when you know it’s important
Daniel Hannan is a British Member of the European Parliament (MEP), an institution for which he seems to have little warmth…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 16.10.15
It’s about time
Tesco’s travails over the last few months are many and varied. Recently they topped a grocers code adjudicator list for supplier…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 09.10.15
A black day to be English
Saturday night was a very dark time for me and many of my English friends and colleagues. Whilst no one actually…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 01.10.15
A fine line
A story in the British press reads that oilfield services provider Halliburton has made an offer to swallow rival Baker Hughes…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 25.09.15
Give to get – when persuasion doesn’t work
I go running regularly with a good friend and neighbor who happens to be a criminal defense lawyer. She is married…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 17.09.15
To type or not to type…the pitfalls of negotiating by email
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter brokered the first peace agreement between Egypt and a free Jewish nation in over 2,000…
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