Negotiating the Path of Abraham: The Flip Side of the Middle East

The Abraham Path Initiative
and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School are pleased to present:
Negotiating the Path of Abraham:
The Flip Side of the Middle East
with
William Ury
Co-author of “Getting to Yes” and co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation
 and
Dave Cornthwaite, Leon McCarron, Hannah Messerli,
James Sebenius, and José Filipe Torres
Saturday October 10
1:30-5 PM
Milstein East B, Wasserstein Hall
Harvard Law School Campus
Free

Is Your Sales Team Ready to Sell Cloud Backup Services?

As most IT Service Providers know, the most well-conceived business plan is worthless without a good sales strategy. But some Service Providers introducing a cloud backup Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offering overlook just how much their Sales team will have to adjust its approach in order to succeed.

5 Ways to Help Teams Be On Time to Meetings

Your customers have eliminated downloads, dial-in numbers and passcodes. They’ve sent free/busy polls to find the best time to meet. They’ve given their team mobile meeting apps with calendar alerts and push notifications. Still, they’re teams arrive late to online meetings, and they’ve heard all the worst late-for-meeting excuses. You’re doing a great job making sure they have all the right technology in place, and their workers are still late to meetings. What can you do to help? Share these tips and be your customers’ hero!

Mary Robinson: Why climate change is a threat to human rights

Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice.

Frances Larson: Why public beheadings get millions of views

In a disturbing — but fascinating — walk through history, Frances Larson examines humanity's strange relationship with public executions … and specifically beheadings. As she shows us, they have always drawn a crowd, first in the public square and now on YouTube. What makes them horrific and compelling in equal measure?

When Dealing with Difficult People, Try a Complementary Approach

To hear businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tell it, the United States under President Barack Obama has bungled one negotiation after another on the global stage due to an inability to stand firm and take tough stances on key issues when engaging in difficult conversations.
“Right now, we have the wrong group of negotiators
The post When Dealing with Difficult People, Try a Complementary Approach appeared first on PON - Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

How to Sell Your Marketing and Advertising Ideas to Your Boss and Clients (with free template)

Internal marketing is a difficult but vital skill for any agency creative, account executive or marketing manager. To help you improve your batting average - whether you work for an agency or in a coporate marketing department - today's MarketingSherpa blog post includes a few tips for presenting your campaign, in addition to marketing and advertising ideas to help you win budget, resources and approval. Plus, we're even including a free PowerPoint template to help you the next time you pitch an idea.

How to Shift to the Highest Paying Sales Jobs

How to Shift to the Highest Paying Sales Jobs 
by Robyn Melhuish
 
You’ve been working sales for some time, but you’re getting bored. You’re meeting and exceeding your quota with ease, and you’re ready to learn more and move your career forward. You’re also looking to bump your salary. You have solid sales experience, but maybe it’s limited to a certain niche or industry. Is it possible to make a transition? Where should you start?

Pages