by Jeff Yablon | Aug 17, 2015 | Business Change Highlights, Business Process
Five years ago, President Barack Obama proved himself the ninja master of business negotiation, getting British Petroleum to commit twenty billion dollars to a clean-up fund for their disastrous oil spill in 2010. This despite BP’s statutory liability being...
by Jeff Yablon | Oct 15, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing
I’ll bet you haven’t thought very much about where The President of The United States intersects with cupcakes. Last week, I told you a story about politics and Facebook conversations in a discussion of the volume of Influency available to President Obama....
by Jeff Yablon | Aug 1, 2013 | Content, Influency, Marketing
This week, President Obama sat for a short interview with David Blum, the editor of Amazon.com Kindle Singles. My compliments to Mr. Blum for conducting a back-and-forth with the leader of the free world that was actually interesting (you can get it here). It...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 22, 2011 | Business Process, Media
Congratulate me. I’m about to have dinner with President Barack Obama. No kidding. Just yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden dropped me a line telling me that my chance at dinner with Barack Obama—yes, that Barack Obama—was as good as anyone’s and all I...
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...
