By Brian Buck | 07/09/2013
North goes east, then quickly west
George North is a big man. Currently on tour in Australia with the British and Irish Lions, North stands at…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 06/27/2013
For a few dollars more
In a sign of unabated consumer demand at the luxury end of the market $29 million was paid yesterday at…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 06/21/2013
Britvic/Barr destined to go flat?
Britvic PLC is a big company. Last year, it sold 1.9 bil gallons of soft drinks and it employs approximately…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 06/13/2013
Sometimes you can’t PARK negotiations
Taking a position in a conflict makes its resolution more difficult. And the more witnesses there are to that position-taking…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 06/06/2013
Golden Nightmare
After being the center of attention for several months late last year, Greece has been mostly out of the international…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 05/30/2013
No means no!
I have been struck last week by the resolute nature by which an elderly lady in Wales has stood firm in…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 05/23/2013
Why can we be persuaded to do stupid things?
There is no doubt that people are strange. You and especially me! A number of studies into social psychology in…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 05/16/2013
There is such a thing as a stupid question
Asking good questions that are tough, direct and specific is one of the key things we can do to improve…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 05/09/2013
Concessions must be earned
The UK Government announced last week, a string of reforms designed to change the way that prisons operate. One of…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 05/02/2013
Collapsing Worlds
As the death toll from the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment manufacturing building in Dhaka, Bangladesh approaches 400, the…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 04/25/2013
Add on
BMW used to do it. So did Mercedes. Porsche and Ferrari still do as far as I am aware, though…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 04/18/2013
Creativity should be embraced not squashed
When the painter James McNeill Whistler was a cadet at West Point, he was assigned to draw a bridge in…
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