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With nearly a decade of experience in international markets around the world, here are some of my top deal-making insights that I wish I knew sooner...#InternationalBusiness #NegotiationInsights
4/4 Non-verbal communication in negotiations can dictate the outcome without a word being said. A smile, a nod, or the timing of your actions can convey volumes depending on the culture. Take the extra minutes on the flight to understand what could unintendedly be offensive and what could show honor. What do you do when these cues are misread or ignored? #GlobalBusiness
Bonus/4 At its core, negotiation is about respect and seeking the best for everyone involved. Every pause, every look, every silent moment is a step towards this goal. There is really no subsititute for being #authentic . You might feel like you are being "weird" but most can see through facades, even with good intentions. #NegotiationInsight
As @fbinegotiator often says, "The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in."..
True for everyday conversations but can be directly applied to the international landscape as many are constantly testing your response to situations, authority, and knowledge before a deal is even discussed.
Be aware of the situation. but most importantly... Just be genuine.
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If nothing bad is happening to you now, wait a bit and it will. That is just reality. My approach to life is that it is what it is and the important thing is for me to figure out what to do about it and not spend time moaning about how I wish it were different. Winston Churchill hit the nail on the head when he said, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." You will come to enjoy this process of careening between success and failure because it will determine your trajectory.
It makes no sense to get frustrated when there's so much that you can do, and when life offers so many things to savor. Your path through any problem is outlined in these principles--and in others you'll discover yourself. There's nothing you can't accomplish if you think creatively and have the character to do the difficult things. #principleoftheday
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Expect small problems. Life is full of compromises, and it’s necessary to let small bad things happen if you want to get huge good things done. There is no escape. Prevent all problems and get nothing done, or accept an allowable level of small problems and focus on the big things.
Incredible breakdown and explaination from @chamath showing it's okay to focus on VALUE and maximize what you do best.
Imagine you own 1% of Apple.
What this means, in its most basic sense, is that by putting up 1% of the capital, you own 1% of all of their current and future profits. That is a fair exchange and it’s well understood.
But if instead, after your money was invested, their goals changed and you didn’t own 1% of their maximum profits any more but rather 1% of some lesser profit (or, even worse, no profit at all) along with a 1% share of Apple’s efforts on student debt reform or the Russia-Ukraine war, you may be confused and think this wasn’t what you signed up for.
Replace Apple with Target, and student debt reform/Russia-Ukraine with Gay Pride Month and the customer and shareholder reaction from Target is below.
Target’s billions of revenue loss and market cap losses add to the tens of billions of dollars already lost by Disney and Bud because of a similar market and customer reaction.
Why is this happening? Do customers and shareholders not care about social issues?
The message being delivered by customers and shareholders to public companies seems to be that they do not want companies to take social positions. They want companies to exist to maximize value for customers and maximize profits for shareholders.
So who is pushing for companies to take positions on politics and social issues if not customers and shareholders? Employees?
A non obvious conclusion that these customers and shareholders may see and companies and employees may not yet is that other organizational models exist (foundations, non-profits, B-corps) to take more effective stands on political and social issues than a C-corp.
And if a company can maximize their enterprise value, it can also enrich employees who can then funnel more of their money than they could otherwise into these causes as they saw fit.
A separate implication of this is that customers and shareholders seem to not want companies to be Swiss Army knives and do everything. They want specialists who are very good at one thing.
Boards and CEOs are probably formulating their all company emails now…
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Or, and stick with me here, we could give parents vouchers so they can vote with their dollars to pick a better option for their kids — like one that teaches advanced math?! 🤷🏼♂️
Cambridge Public Schools eliminated advanced math in middle school with the aim of reducing disparities between low-income children of color and their more affluent peers. But some families and educators argue the decision has had the opposite effect. trib.al/tXxKKPs
Sure, it's "only" against Caribbean nations, but the #USMNT is doing what you should expect from a WC qualifier and hopeful contender.
#USAvTRI #GoldCup2023
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JESUS FERREIRA IS THE FIRST EVER @USMNT PLAYER TO SCORE BACK-TO-BACK HAT TRICKS. 🇺🇸
🧐🧐🧐 Is this good or bad, Twitter?
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BREAKING: The world’s largest asset manager BlackRock is close to filing for a #Bitcoin ETF - CoinDesk
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Don't miss my newest podcast appearance, which some are calling the most mind-blowing psych information they've ever heard 🤯 youtube.com/watch?v=kUDYtCjx…
Would be interested to see if this is enough for the employees..
“Companies want a place for their employees to step out of the office and go grab a coffee,”
#WFH #TampaBusiness @TBBJnewsroom @CBRE
Office landlords are taking a page from hospitality developers to convince companies to invest in corporate real estate. bizjournals.com/tampabay/new…