By The Scotwork Team | 22.10.15
What to Do When You Know It’s Important
Daniel Hannan is a British Member of the European Parliament (MEP), an institution for which he seems to have little…
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By The Scotwork Team | 15.10.15
It’s About Time
Tesco’s travails over the last few months are many and varied. Recently they topped a grocers code adjudicator list for…
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By The Scotwork Team | 08.10.15
A Black Day to Be English
Saturday night was a very dark time for me and many of my English friends and colleagues. Whilst no one…
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By The Scotwork Team | 01.10.15
A Fine Line
A story in the British press reads that oilfield services provider Halliburton has made an offer to swallow rival Baker…
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By The Scotwork Team | 24.09.15
Give to Get – When Persuasion Doesn’t Work
I go running regularly with a good friend and neighbour who happens to be a criminal defence lawyer. She is…
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By The Scotwork Team | 17.09.15
To Type, or Not to Type… The Pitfalls of Negotiating by Email
In 1978, US President Jimmy Carter brokered the first peace agreement between Egypt and a free Jewish nation in over…
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By The Scotwork Team | 10.09.15
You May Think That
Habits are one of the most useful things we can slip into. If we didn’t habitually do much of our…
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By The Scotwork Team | 03.09.15
Is Risk the Best Policy?
Ever run out of petrol? Well it seems that more and more of us have. Last year over 800,000 motorists…
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By The Scotwork Team | 27.08.15
Lesser of Two Evils
I was interested by a report I read on the NHS website on 21 August in which Public Health England…
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By The Scotwork Team | 20.08.15
Green Lights
A few years ago I was talking to a guy at a dinner party and he, in the effort to…
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By The Scotwork Team | 13.08.15
Mind the Doors Please
Last Wednesday evening was a bad time for two different groups of Londoners. At five o’clock the doors of several…
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Don’t Confuse Negotiating With Persuasion
I was recently invited to teach at a company that purchases the debts of financial institutions and then pursues the…
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