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Interview on deal-making for Smarta.com - the expert website for Business Owners -
Future of Books
Our successful Book publishing Event "Books 2.0" took place at Olswang on March 19th. An audience of 100 Publishing Execs, Writers and Literary agents saw speakers Gerd Leonhard (of Media Futurist), Dominic Pride (of Sound Horizon) and me speak on the Future of Books in a Connected World.
Here are links for a couple of reviews of the Event:
Thebookseller.com news page
Publishing Perspectives website
Also, click here if you would like to find out more about the speakers.
You can download slides from the Event either at the Olswang "Future of Books" site or at Rich Futures on Slideshare.
If you would like to know more or get in touch with us to follow up please contact Rich Futures. Connect with Me
Category Archives: Negotiation
The publication of Peter Mandelson’s memoirs of New Labour, “The Third Man” gives a fascinating insight into the mind of a great negotiator. It also reveals that even this master negotiator has some weak spots.
Peter Mandelson has successfully negotiated his way through more than a dozen years of Labour being in power, displaying enormous deal-making [...]
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Are we any closer to a peace deal in Afghanistan? Probably not, though it’s no surprise to find the beleagured Allies wishing and hoping that a deal was possible after a month in which Nato troops suffered their worst ever losses (102 brave men killed in June). The problem is that the ingredients for a [...]
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What next for the Euro? As forecast in this blog, the Euro-zone countries have been forced to stump up a massive rescue package in order to avert a sovereign debt crisis in Greece and other Euro-zone countries. Will that be enough? Possibly not, if the continuing state of unease displayed by the financial markets is [...]
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- Tags : Anders Borg, economy, Erik Nielsen, EU, Euro, Euro-zone, France, Germany, Greece, IMF, Katie Price, Merkel, Negotation, Peter Andre, politics, Portugal, Push behaviour, Sarkozy, Spain
The debate over whether Fabio Capello should stay or go has obscured the real reason why England lost so badly to Germany and crashed out of the World Cup. It is a feature of any negotiation that winners have a positive attitude. This is a feature of traditional business negotiations and [...]
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The true and parlous picture of Manchester United’s debts has become a little clearer over the past few weeks. The highly leveraged takeover of the club by the Glazer family has turned the club from one of the wealthiest in the world into a beast burdened by over US$720 million of debt. The club has [...]
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Another week of turmoil at British Airways, involving record losses of over £500 million, more industrial unrest with Unite, and culminating in a near-riot by bitter airline staff at ACAS on Saturday night.
This dispute has now been running for over 15 months. This is highly unusual in post-Thatcher Britain, with all its obstacles against Union-organised [...]
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- Tags : ACAS, BA, cabin crew, Derek Simpson, Negotiation, strike, Unite, Willy Walsh
So, the Tories have struck their deal with the Lib Dems. Now the question is “will it last?”
As suggested in my last blog, each of David Cameron and Nick Clegg has focused on the other’s personal needs for achievement, belonging and reassurance to help close the gap between the organisational “wants” of the two sides. [...]
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