3 Actions You Can Take to Positively Impact Your Customers’ IT Organizations

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Critical business processes require multiple copies of each database’s and application’s data for development, analytics, operations, and data protection. To improve organizational agility and competitiveness, more is better—more copies, more frequently, with more operational self-service across the process cycles.

The Showdown between Convenience and Security

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Every organization has faced the dilemma of convenience over security and most have compromised on either one or the other. While the information security triad of integrity, confidentiality and availability has been regarded as the mantra of CSOs, convenience has constantly played an important role in both productivity and operations.

“Bridge of Spies” Film Screening and Discussion

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The Program on Negotiation Film Series is pleased to present:
Bridge of Spies
 
The screening will be followed by a discussion with:
 
Dean Martha Minnow
Harvard Law School
and
Professor Michael Wheeler
Harvard Business School
and
Beth Amorosi and John Amorosi
James Donovan’s Grandchildren
 
Thursday, March 31, 2016
6:30 PM
Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall
Harvard Law School Campus
 
Free and open to the public. Pizza and refreshments will be provided.
About the film:

What really happens when you mix medications? | Russ Altman

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If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're combined, because drug interactions are incredibly hard to study. In this fascinating and accessible talk, Russ Altman shows how doctors are studying unexpected drug interactions using a surprising resource: search engine queries.

How to Overcome the, “My relative handles that for me” Objection

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How to Overcome the, “My relative handles that for me” Objection
By Mike Brooks, www.MrInsideSales.com
If you’re in B2C sales (business to consumer), then you’ve no doubt gotten the objection, “My relative handles that for me, and I wouldn’t be interested in changing.”  
In B2B sales (business to business), this objection often manifests as, “We’ve been doing business with X for years and we get the best (rates, service, etc.) and we wouldn’t be interested in switching.”  
Other variations include:

Let’s Help Everyone in 2016 “Metaphorically Skip” With Every Interaction

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Need to lower the stress from a frustrating workday or find a way to put yourself in that “happy” place? Learn from children and skip. I’m not kidding! It might sound silly, but it really isn’t. The act of skipping (with or without a rope) involves both sides of the brain, plus it improves coordination, ... Read more

The Leadership Styles of “Girls” at the Negotiating Table

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Lena Dunham is a hugely successful actor, writer, and director, but the creator of the HBO hit show “Girls,” is also a formidable negotiator. In a January interview for LinkedIn, Dunham and her co-producer Jenni Konner described the challenges and rewards of good deal-making in an industry that is notorious for gender discrimination. While Dunham
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How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement | Magda Sayeg

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Textile artist Magda Sayeg transforms urban landscapes into her own playground by decorating everyday objects with colorful knit and crochet works. These warm, fuzzy "yarn bombs" started small, with stop sign poles and fire hydrants in Sayeg's hometown, but soon people found a connection to the craft and spread it across the world. "We all live in this fast-paced, digital world, but we still crave and desire something that's relatable," Sayeg says. "Hidden power can be found in the most unassuming places, and we all possess skills that are just waiting to be discovered."

Negotiating the Non-Negotiable: Transforming Conflict Into Opportunity

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We all experience emotionally challenging conflicts and negotiations. Whether you are negotiating with your board or with your family, over internal resources or with external partners, as the buyer or as the seller, emotions can turn an otherwise productive negotiation into an unprofitable disaster.It does not have to be that way. In this interactive workshop,
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