My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours, Charles Bukowski
Global Competitiveness
Here are the top 10 economies from the 2017-2018 Global Competitiveness report.
I have come to a great definition of competitiveness. “It is your ability to reach your goals”!
How competitive are you? What makes Switzerland a definite world leader in competition? Can you apply their best practices?
BATNA
overheard today:
– what’s your BATNA?
– I’ll get fired… 🙁
What do you do when you fly long-haul?
I talk to strangers.
It is much easier to start conversation with a person stuck next to you whom you will probably never see again.
Here’s just some people I can remember talking to
- Rimskiy-Korsakov’s grand son, consul of Belgium
- Tiffany’s diamond buying director
- GE regional director
- director of nuclear research institute
- salesperson selling grass to football stadiums
- VP of scaffolding making corporation
- antique floors maker
- Movie director
- TV host
- Bankers
- Students
- Elderly parents visiting their children abroad
And I talk to the crew. They seem to appreciate when someone treats them as people and not serve-me-food-now objects
Have you met some interesting characters on board? Are you the one to tell your life story to a stranger?
Hello world!
Welcome!
This is my first post here. I’ve decided to start my own blog on negotiations.
This is something I love, I live from and I’d like to share with you!
Since LinkedIn doesn’t allow text formating and people mainly forward their bits of knowledge, I’ll use this blog to improve the readability of my LinkedIn communications.
See you around!