Terry called me to ask my advice about a contract re-negotiation. He was facing a company that had changed its management recently. The company took a take-it or leave-it attitude with Terry and unilaterally reduced his contract. Allegedly, they needed to maintain profitability. What do you do in a take-it or leave-it atmosphere?
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Have you been caught off guard by people who don’t seem to want to negotiate with you, but you wanted to negotiate with them?
I was reading the Wall Street Journal last night when an article caught my eye. NBC Starts an Apple iDuel (Weekend edition, Saturday/Sunday, September 1-2, 2007, Section B, page 14) Apparently, GE, through its subsidiary NBC, is in a dispute with Apple concerning the cost of NBC’s video downloads and the “antipiracy” protections Apple offers.
This is line from Dilbert. It is meant as a joke, but to me it’s not funny.
A friend of mine emailed me the link to this blog entry.
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In the Style section of the Wall Street Journal last week (Thursday, July 26, 2007) writer Christina Binkley talked to Colony Capital LLC chairman Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. about his choice in clothes when attending international negotiations worth mega millions.
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