by Jeanette Nyden | May 10, 2021 | Business Relationships, contract negotiations, Innovations, stakeholders, Trust
Savvy buyers Savvy buyers will often leverage market competition to seek pricing in more than one way, or with greater granularity than they may ultimately contract for. For example, buying organizations will ask for a firm fixed fee and a cost-plus management fee for...
by Jeanette Nyden | Oct 6, 2020 | Business Relationships, Trust, Words
Trust is the core quality of any collaborative partnership. Companies with high degrees of trust can spend their energies leveraging each other’s core strengths and creating value, rather than on compliance, enforcement, or worse, fighting metaphorical fires as a...
by Jeanette Nyden | Dec 28, 2017 | Business Relationships, stakeholders, Trust
A stakeholder said in front of the supplier during negotiations, “What the hell does ‘G.S.’ (V.P. of Sourcing) have to do with my deal!?” My coaching client and I had to regain control of the conversation immediately. In this article I’ll explain what we did and ask...
by Jeanette Nyden | Nov 30, 2017 | Business Relationships, Getting to WE, Trust
Getting to We is a process. After partners assess the levels of trust and compatibility between two partners, and agree that there is enough trust and compatibility, they are ready to move on to the next step in the process: developing a shared vision for the...
by Jeanette Nyden | Nov 16, 2017 | Business Relationships, contract negotiations, Trust
Accurately assessing trust and compatibility is not easy. It is often one-sided: a buying company will evaluate a supplier’s trustworthiness without understanding the supplier’s perceptions of the buying company’s trustworthiness. That’s why professors Gerald Ledlow...
by Jeanette Nyden | Sep 18, 2017 | Business Relationships, contract management, contract negotiations, Getting to WE, Trust, Words
Getting to We is a book about negotiating. It is not, however, a typical negotiation book when compared to the hundreds of other negotiation books. It is a book that opens the way to developing a new mindset and process for negotiating business relationships where...
