By Brian Buck | 05/07/2015
Negotiating advice for politicians
On the day this blog is published the population of the UK vote in elections for their next government. Opinion polls…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 04/30/2015
The politician and the dead cat
There appears to be a new technique being banded about by politicians in the UK, no doubt encouraged by their spin…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 04/23/2015
Three stories in one
We are in political season, so I make no apology for another observation on the political landscape, from which the…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 04/16/2015
Questions
Questions, questions everywhere, and not an answer in sight. Asking good questions is productive, positive, creative, and can help get us…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 04/10/2015
The deal that is no deal
Somewhat quietly last Thursday, several days after the expiry of an arbitrary deadline which had been set for the finalization…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 04/02/2015
The meaning of Liff (part 2)
Few weeks ago we asked readers to submit words (made up ones) and their definitions as part of a tongue in…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 03/26/2015
Honesty. The best policy?
This morning (Tuesday 24th March) the news is awash with the revelation that the British Prime Minister says that he will not…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 03/19/2015
Do you like radish?
What price is cost control? There is a natural tendency for us all to be looking to drive down the cost…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 03/12/2015
Negotiating the will to live
Driving to a meeting recently I was brought low by a radio program about dementia. The story, told by her family…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 03/06/2015
The meaning of Liff
It has been said that Inuit have more than 17 different words for snow. Why should this be? Anthropologists hold the…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 02/26/2015
It’s all about packaging!
Most of you have followed (to some extent at least) the negotiations between the recently elected Greek government and its European…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 02/23/2015
Power to the underdog
Scotwork NA Vice President vs. major airline. Guess who’s the underdog? Since relocating to the eastern shores of North Carolina…
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