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 | 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...
by Jeanette Nyden | Aug 10, 2017 | Business Relationships, contract management, contract negotiations, risk management, stakeholders, Trust, Words
Social Norms To Do Business By Reciprocity obligates businesspeople to make fair and balanced exchanges. If one company accepts a business risk, the other must be prepared to do the same. If one company commits to invest time and money in an important project, the...
by Jeanette Nyden | May 6, 2009 | non verbal communication
Scientists have statistically proven what many of us have known for a long time. Non-verbal communication (body language and tone of voice) is critical to building trust, and without trust, there is no sale. Researches at MIT’s Media Lab found that body language,...
