by Jeff Yablon | May 22, 2012 | Business Process
Now you have it . . . and now you don’t. Facebook is a publicly traded company. Mark Zuckerberg and a few of his close pals are officially gazillionaires. You, sadly, are not. Here’s why: The stock market is fixed. No, I’m not saying that the game is...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 12, 2012 | Business Process
I’m about to be very honest about a topic that could get me in trouble with over half of the people who read my words here. This makes me nervous, but I’m going to do it anyway. I hate affirmative action. I’m speaking from the perspective of a...
by Jeff Yablon | Mar 16, 2011 | Business Process
Negotiation is simple: He who has the best information wins. I’ve said that for—yikes—decades, and something I read last week made me realize just how important the idea is. This piece in Inc. is about “Five Things You Should Never Say While...
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 23, 2010 | Business Process
Although I make this point only occasionally, business change is all about negotiation. I opined that Barack Obama is perhaps the best negotiator of all time when he got British Petroleum to volunteer $20 Billion toward a fund that gets them off no hooks legally, and...
by Jeff Yablon | Sep 25, 2009 | Business Process
Hey, I have an idea . . . let’s all default on our mortgages! It isn’t really a surprise, is it? Enough people now see this kind of thing as “standard operating procedure” that the Los Angeles Times is reporting on an epidemic of folks walking...
