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  • Negotiation Mastery in the press
      Quite apart from the book reviews, I've had several articles in national newspapers or trade magazines in recent weeks so I thought it worth collating them here. More to come in the next few weeks eg, FT, Daily Mail, The Edge (magazine of the Institute of Leadership and Management)...
  • Original promotional video
      Here is the original version of the promotional trailer for my book, Negotiation Mastery. It was great fun making, thanks to the help of all my circus friends. Ultimately, though, it doesn't work as marketing material because there's so much interesting visual stuff going on, you don't listen to...
  • Book reviews in the press
      Since the book was published two months ago, there have been a number of reviews in the press and I thought I would collate them here. Fortunately, all of them have been positive, including being the Institute of Director's Book of the Month, so I'm quite happy to include...
  • The most important negotiation the world has ever seen
      Fifty years ago this week, the world found itself staring apocalypse in the face. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest we have ever come to all-out nuclear war and the ensuing mutually assured destruction. Remarkably, John F Kennedy had a tape recorder running 24/7 in the White House...
  • BAE-EADS article in Sunday Express
    With the BAE-EADS merger collapsing this week, the Sunday Express wanted to know my views on why it failed. Read the article by clicking on the image below:       Negotiation Mastery is available from all good bookstores including Amazon, Foyles and Waterstones in the UK and Barnes and...
  • Article in Entrepreneur Country
      The October issue of Entrepreneur Country magazine has a two page excerpt from my book on the nature of power. You can see it here. Or I guess you can by the book! Or you can read the attachments below.    
  • How to crack the BAE/EADS puzzle?
      Negotiations can get pretty complicated at times. The latest merger talks between defence company BAE and civil aviation giant EADS to create a European Boeing are proof of that and those complications could be causing it to come apart. Mergers are challenging enough, trying to find agreements between management...
  • Sunday Express Interview
      Yesterday I was telephoned by Tracey Boles, the Business Editor of the Sunday Express, for my views on the latest developments in the merger discussions between BAE and EADS, specifically some of the moves by various national governments and how this will impact the deal. I've attached Tracey's article...
  • Glencore, Xstrata and Tony Blair – Just exactly what did he do?
      Last week an $80bn merger between mining giants Glencore and Xstrata seemed to be hitting the rails until Tony Blair saved the day (well, maybe) at a very nice dinner at Claridges. Tracey Boles, the Business Editor at the Sunday Express, asked me exactly how he would have done...
  • Trust but verify
    Since the book is being published this week, I thought I would post a short excerpt from the book to give you a flavour of it. Trust but verify So you find yourself in a negotiation and the guy on the other side of the table has horns, cloven feet...