There are commodities, massive amounts of resources, products, and even ideas, that consumers use and discard at mass. Commodities can also be traded for money and generate outsized revenues because they are so valuable to consumers and can be differentiated across so many secondary and tertiary products in the market. Read more…
Think for a moment about product packaging: Everything that we buy, from dish soap to artesian water, comes in some type of package. Being the rational consumers that we are, we often tell ourselves that the shape of the container, the way that the container is delivered to us, or Read more…
If Bob feels as though he got screwed in his last mediation session out of assets like a boat or a pile of money, his world view of the mediation process is different than that of his ex-wife. If Ann sees her job I’m human resources as determining policy and Read more…
What are the edges? Where can I make changes? Is better marketing going to solve my product problem? Have I been listening to my clients? How do I ask the right questions? In a crowded peace building marketplace, where consumers are often talked at from the perspective of late-stage interventions, Read more…
The set-up for the story is always the same. There’s coercion, envy, false accusations, an artificially whipped up mob, a person turned into a scapegoat and a trial without representation, on trumped up charges, geared toward a predetermined outcome. Then there’s an execution by a regime a downhill slide from Read more…
“Why” is the new black. I keep saying this, in trainings mostly, and what it means is that–what lies at the core of most problems, disputes, disagreements, frustrations, and “differences of opinion” in the workplace—is the inability of adults to ask other adults the question “Why?” The reasons for not Read more…
Intentionally renewing your mind is the only way to long-term peace. There are short-term strategies, of course, such as active listening, improving your body language, and thinking of the other party first. But not playing the long game and struggling with why playing the long game is important to developing Read more…
[Podcast] Earbud_U, Season Three, Episode #5 – Anne Sawyer, Executive Director-Southern California Mediation Association, Passionate Mediator, and Entrepreneur [powerpress] The real trouble with mediation is capitalism. But our guest today has a way around that by using collaboration, mentorship, and an animated adherence to the core principles of mediation. Peace Read more…
Three benefits accrue to you (or me, or anybody else) when you show up and guest lecture at a college or high school class. Prestige—I get to show up and talk with (or to) people who are there to hear knowledge and already mentally prepped with the idea that I’m Read more…
The sales process for a peace builder in the open market is wrapped up with impressions, ideas, concepts, and intuition that the peacebuilder has in their head about every sales film, sales call, and selling situation they’ve ever been involved with. But, in order to be successful in the open Read more…