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A Pricing Buzz Saw is Not Exclusive to Procurement: Expect Aggressive Negotiation Tactics from All Angles

In our book Negotiating with Backbone, Reed Holden describes strategies and tactics designed to combat the Procurement Pricing Buzz Saw. The situation was described well in a white paper by Reed Ho…

Questions are like Tools—Pick the Right One for the Job

(Part 2 of 3) In the first blog of this Asking Great Questions series, I talked about the need or rationale for asking questions.  Great questions can undoubtedly be great tools in the ri…

$4.99 Footlongs? Subway, You’re Doing it Wrong

Remember the Subway “Five-dollar footlong” jingle from 2008? Ten years later, Subway is doubling down on the promotion with a two-month run of $4.99 footlong sandwiches. While the news is music to …

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