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What Does a "Collaborative Negotiation" Look Like?
How do you set a tone of collaboration that sticks—especially with someone that sees the negotiation as win-lose, and they want you to lose? It’s...
The Simple Negotiation Exercise You Can Try Today
The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don’t know you’re in. Luckily, there’s an easy way to become aware of this: If the words I want or I...
How Leadership Failure Looks Differently Than You Think
To many, leadership failure looks like a toxic boss scolding their employees and causing a mass exodus. But true leadership failure comes in other...
How Expert Negotiators Use “No” to Close
Yes is a useless word. When anything is really important, we don’t even bother with yes. It’s B.S. anyway and almost always fake. When it’s important...
5 Commonly Overlooked Characteristics of Effective Leadership
Leaders have the power to make or break a company.
Influencing with Tactical Empathy: A Glimpse into our Negotiation Seminars
You’ve read the book. You keep tabs on our blog. Now, in an effort to sharpen your negotiation skills even further, you’re thinking about attending...
How to Use the Key to Tactical Empathy
Everyone who grasps the importance of that’s right is making incredible breakthroughs in their negotiations. They are killing it. And you will, too....
Infographic: The Top 3 Negotiation Mistakes
We negotiate salaries. We negotiate real estate. We negotiate with our utility providers. We negotiate with our friends and family. No matter what...
How To Win With Email: 4 Rules For Success
The business world runs on email. In fact, studies have found that the average professional receives 121 emails every day. Winning with email starts...
The Best Leadership Books of the Last Decade
Great leaders are always trying to develop new skills to increase their effectiveness. One of the easiest ways to do that is by learning tips and...
Using Personality Types to Improve Your Sales Skills
As American novelist Kurt Vonnegut wrote, it takes all kinds of people to make up a world.
Bullsh*t On Compromise
The Black Swan Group is here to call “bullshit” on compromise—exactly as we did in our book. Here are two reasons why.