How to Overcome Cultural Differences in Communication – Negotiating with the Next Generation

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Often negotiators study how to overcome cultural differences in communication when embarking upon negotiations with a foreign counterpart. But what if your counterpart shares your culture, but not your age or worldview? The following article presents negotiation strategies for bargaining with the rising generation.

The Leadership Skills of Late Night

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Selecting the right person for a challenging job is often more than just a hiring decision. It’s a negotiation. Doing it well requires exceptional leadership skills. Nowhere is this clearer than in late night television. Last year, Jay Leno left The Tonight Show. In mid-May David Letterman followed suit and in two months, Jon Stewart

Negotiation skills can help when trying to mend a friendship

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Negotiation is not only something we do at work; often the toughest negotiations we encounter are in our personal lives. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, Daniel Shapiro, Associate Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project and a faculty affiliate with the Program on Negotiation, offers some suggestions on how negotiation skills can be used

Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed

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Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others -- and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people's, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others -- and surprised even him.

A New Business Opportunity: No Application Data Left Behind

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Think for a moment about all the applications you have on your phone. Some of them contain valuable data that you will need when you move from one phone to another, such as your personal and professional contact information. Some of them have data you could get rid of without a second thought, like your high score on a certain candy game.

Is your Wi-Fi secure? 3 things small businesses need to know

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Wi-Fi is becoming a must-have for businesses of all sizes. You'd be hard-pressed to find a cafe, hotel, or auto dealership without free public Wi-Fi; other types of businesses need Wi-Fi - picture your typical office setting - because workers need Internet connectivity even when they move around the office, on their laptops and mobile devices.

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