Take Bullets Out of Guns

Take Bullets Out of Guns

Prior to any contentious conversation your counterparts may prepare to debate or challenge you in an effort to create a perception of leverage.  This preparation is typically centered on one or two ideas, comments or issues.  Often their entire strategy for the...
Connect the Dots

Connect the Dots

Leaders have all had gut feelings that warned them their counterparts may be speaking dishonestly dishonestly. Most of the time these gut feelings are accurate because subconsciously we identified verbal and/or behavioral anomalies that didn’t fit the situation. There...
Synonymous With Sales

Synonymous With Sales

Negotiate – Sell – Interrogate. Perhaps astonishingly, they are all one in the same. Great negotiators sell beneficial agreements; great sales professionals sell the perfect product or solution; and great interrogators sell the truth. All three processes involve at...