By Brian Buck | 10/22/2015
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 | 10/16/2015
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 | 10/09/2015
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 | 10/01/2015
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 | 09/25/2015
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 | 09/17/2015
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…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 09/10/2015
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 daily…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 09/03/2015
Is risk the best policy?
Ever run out of gas? Well it seems that more and more of us have. Last year over 800,000 motorists reportedly…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 08/25/2015
Calmness tames airlines
In separate incidents over the last few months, two well-known airlines I frequently fly made mistakes but then came through…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 08/20/2015
Green Lights
A few years ago I was talking to a guy at a dinner party and he, in the effort to engage…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 08/14/2015
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 walk-in…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 08/06/2015
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 people…
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