By Brian Buck | 08/19/2024
Unexpected Negotiation
My daughter is excited about her second year of college, mostly because she gets to live in her own apartment…
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By Brian Buck | 08/12/2024
Measuring Success: A Negotiation’s Closing Ceremony
Every Olympic athlete’s journey culminates in a singular moment: the closing ceremony. The event marks the end of a journey…
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By Brian Buck | 08/05/2024
Training Your Competition
I’m enthralled with the Olympics because I love watching the competition and learning about the athletes, not to mention the…
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By Brian Buck | 07/29/2024
Negotiation Opening Ceremony
For the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony did not take place in…
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By Brian Buck | 07/22/2024
Surviving the Toughest Work Negotiations
When we ask people about their negotiation issues, almost everyone tells us that their toughest negotiations are with the people…
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By Brian Buck | 07/15/2024
Power Shifts
According to the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (an NGO), more than 70 nations will hold elections in 2024, representing…
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By Brian Buck | 07/01/2024
Negotiate With Purpose
We study trillions of dollars of negotiated commerce a year, and whenever we ask negotiators if they can identify the…
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By Brian Buck | 06/24/2024
Vacation Desperation? Use Negotiation.
Have you ever had a travel situation that didn’t go according to plan? Yeah, me too. In the past year,…
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By Brian Buck | 06/10/2024
A Square Deal
The United States has wrestled with significant challenges: divisiveness and The Great Divide, states restricting women’s rights and voting laws,…
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By Brian Buck | 06/03/2024
Negotiation Is Misunderstood
I recently delivered a keynote speech on “How to increase the value of your deals.” There was a lot of…
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By Brian Buck | 05/28/2024
What’s Your Negotiation PR Strategy?
Ever since there were cave paintings, there’s been publicity. It’s proven effective for everything from Greek philosophers, known as “sophists,”…
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By Brian Buck | 05/20/2024
Could You Outnegotiate Kobe?
You don’t have to be a basketball fan to know the name Kobe Bryant. As great of a player as…
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