By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 21 July 2013 I negotiate with hundreds of people a year – both online and offline – haggling, whether it is with customers, suppliers, investors, or would-be employees. I can humbly say I learned over the years to negotiate like a “true master” though we al...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 20 July 2013 I meet thousands of people a year – both online and offline – and I am frankly flabbergasted how well educated and supposedly highly connected people are so awkward in engaging in business. For the most part, they think that just by solic...
By : Ziad K. Abdelnour| 14 July 2013 “It is much safer to be feared than loved,” writes Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince, his classic 16th-century treatise advocating manipulation and occasional cruelty as the best means to power. Guided by centuries of advice like Machiavelli, we tend...
