Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Source: Reuters Aug 10 (Reuters) - A suicide car bombing killed eight people east of Algiers late on Saturday, Algeria's official APS news agency reported. Attacks claimed by al Qaeda's north African ...
Later On (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Very interesting and very useful. The most important way to strengthen your negotiating position, as Roger Fisher and William Ury point out (see this post), is first to know your best alternative to a negotiated agreement (your BATNA)—that is, the best you can get if you walk away from the negotiation—and then to improve that [...]
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Auckland, North Island, New Zealand Saying goodbye is never easy. Especially when we know how slim our chances of returning to NZ in the foreseeable future are. We arrived in Auckland focused on selling Gazer and knowing that the car market at this very end of the travel season is a buyer's market. We knew we should allow a few days for the sale and should lower...
Business English Pod (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
This is the second in a two-part advanced business English lesson on negotiation strategy. It is part of a longer series of podcasts on the language and skills of negotiating in English. In the first episode, management consultant Bryan Fields discussed the basics of making a deal. We learned how to avoid some top common [...]
Business English Pod (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
This is the beginning of a new Business English Podcast series on the skills and language of negotiating in English for ESL. We'll explore the topic of negotiations in a series of podcasts that examine several typical business negotiations and the language used in each stage of the process.
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Source: Reuters ALGIERS, May 11 (Reuters) - Floods caused by torrential rains have killed seven people and partially damaged roads in eastern Algeria over the past two days, officials said on Sunday. Two corpses ...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Christchurch, New Zealand After two months in the Far East (yes, yes we know: South East Asia...), Christchurch seemed to be more than half a world away. The mess, noise, pollution and crowdedness of Bangkok, Manila and Shanghai made way to clean, organized and spacious streets, packed with British politeness, street names and atmosphere. Having traveled...
Settle It Now Negotiation Blog (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
I was cruising around the blogosphere this morning looking for links to the prime directive of all negotiations -- know your BATNA -- when I ran across this great 2007 post by Penelope Trunk of the Brazen Careerist -- How to Negotiate When You Have Nothing to Leverage . Penelope suggests the weakest strategy available -- exchange power for sympathy. "If one person has a great BATNA," writes Penelope,...
Settle It Now Negotiation Blog (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
Thanks to Stephanie West Allen at idealawg (channeled to me this morning via the Forbes Business and Financial Blog Network ) for the Famous Trials Website from Socrates to Moussaoui (and yes of course O.J.'s there ) . (above, the Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David ) Here's Stephanie's announcement: Professor Douglas O. Linder of University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law has created...
Wish I Would Have Known (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Life the Universe and Everything asks: Appropriate question'?What percentage of your applicants receive scholarship offers. I'm curious here because at the school I'll be visiting, you have to be in the top 25% to retain your scholarship. Top 26% gets you bupkiss. So if say 50% of applicants walk in with $$$, that tells me they're trying to attract students with higher numbers, and plan on screwing...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Algiers - Units of the Algerian army have killed five suspected Islamic terrorists and wounded several others in a vast operation carried out near the city of Batna, some 435 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, the daily El Watan reported Wednesd...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Source: Reuters March 10 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's North Africa wing said on Monday it was holding two Austrian tourists it had abducted in Tunisia on Feb. 22, linking its action to an Israeli offensive in Gaza. Here ...
Plural Identities (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
I wonder if the BATNA (best alternative to negotiated agreement) blackmail tactic from non-doms that they will leave the UK if the government's tax plans are implemented (apparently Greek shipping families are the latest to threaten to take their toys...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 12/21/2007
Claudine & Iain's Excellent Adventure!!
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
Timeline of recent bombings in Algeria:
