By The Scotwork Team | 21.01.16
Negotiate Well, Don’t Let Yourself Down
The ability to negotiate through conflict is obviously critical within any organisation, regardless of which side of the fence they…
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By The Scotwork Team | 14.01.16
Cinq à Sept
One of the defining qualities of a good negotiator is the ability to manufacture unusual tradeable variables apparently out of…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 07.01.16
The Traitment of Junior Doctors
It occurred to me, that the most prominent current industrial dispute in England, between the Government and the Junior Doctors,…
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By The Scotwork Team | 22.12.15
Negotiating with Retailers
Most “negotiations” with retailers are simple haggles; you don’t need to deal with them and they don’t need to sell…
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By The Scotwork Team | 17.12.15
Liar, Liar Pants on Fire
Is there a difference between telling lies or just being misleading? I guess lying, rather like beauty, may be in…
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By The Scotwork Team | 10.12.15
E By Gum
Recently the Sunday Times Travel section reported an unfortunate accident. A Mr Graham Davies booked a multi-flight trip from the…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 03.12.15
Strictly Come Negotiating
Here in the UK in the Autumn and the first part of Winter a televisual phenomenon hits our screens on…
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By The Scotwork Team | 26.11.15
Just Because You Don’t Want It!
A short but important lesson in this week’s blog. The daughter of a friend of mine decided to buy a…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 19.11.15
No Discussion, Just Death
George Santanaya’s maxim that ‘those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them’…
Read the post By The Scotwork Team | 12.11.15
A Signal Day for Europe?
I wrote in this blog about three weeks ago about the commitment given by the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron,…
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By The Scotwork Team | 05.11.15
What Now
Am I reading this right? We’re all getting fat because we eat too much and don’t exercise enough. Right? Well,…
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By The Scotwork Team | 29.10.15
Kicking the Sh*t out of Big Business
It is fashionable for radicals to kick against the political establishment. The rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, Nicola…
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