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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By Brian Buck | 05/06/2024
Where to Begin?
One of our clients needed help with a strategically important negotiation they were about to embark on. They just went…
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By Brian Buck | 04/29/2024
And the Award Goes To…
Last week, we learned that The American Business Awards® honored us with not one, but two Stevie® Awards for: Most…
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By Brian Buck | 04/22/2024
Do You Feel Lucky?
Talking to an old mate over the weekend caused me to, once again, consider the role that luck plays in…
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By Brian Buck | 04/15/2024
Rules of Engagement
I’ve been working recently with a client on a large formal negotiation. In fact, there are 70 people in the…
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By Brian Buck | 04/08/2024
And the Winner Is . . .
With the men’s NCAA basketball championship game happening tonight, it’s also time to reveal the champion mayhem-inducing issue at the…
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By Brian Buck | 03/25/2024
Chaos and Mayhem
This concludes our four-part series on negotiation mayhem, and it seems appropriate that we end on a note about chaos.…
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By Brian Buck | 03/18/2024
Power Mayhem
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker There’s no…
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By Brian Buck | 03/11/2024
Self-Created Mayhem
I said it. And there was nothing I could do to take it back. I felt sick to my stomach…
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