UK Guardian

Read UK Guardian article with my comments on the "fiscal cliff."

Negotiator Magazine

Read my article "Ten Tips" in Negotiator Magazine.

This is the Korean edition of Negotiation Boot Camp.

Xmas Shopping: Get the Most for Your Money

Going Xmas shopping? Read my article at www.brodow.com/.

Negotiating in 2013

Read Ed Brodow's article "Ten Tips for Negotiating in 2013" in Lab Manager's Magazine.

Intriguing Decisions

Latest review of WOMEN FROM VENUS by Ed Brodow:
"Decisions we make may change our lives irrevocably. Women from Venus is a collection of short fiction from Ed Brodow as he presents many stories of people with serious decisions ahead of them and the aftermath of facing such realities. Women from Venus explores many intriguing ideas and is much recommended reading."
Midwest Book Review/Susan Bethany

HIGHLY Recommended!

Review of GETTING A SUCCESS CHANGE by Ed Brodow:
"I highly, highly, highly, highly (did I say highly? Yep. I'll say it again...), HIGHLY, recommend this book. It's mainly about how people spend their lives constructing things they don't want, and don't need, only to cut themselves off from their actual personal selves and dreams. It will wake you up and make you remember who you are and where you want to be."

The Quill of Deana Zhollis

 

Champagne for Caesar

I'm off on a European speaking tour and was just connecting with a friend who lives in Paris. She told me this strange story. While attending a wine and cheese tasting event on a riverboat in the Seine, she was handed a sword -- a long, curved scimitar -- and asked to open a bottle of champagne. What you do, they told her, is rub the sword along the curve of the bottle neck until the cork pops out. She was skeptical but she tried it and behold...it worked! And so it has occurred to me that this offers an interesting history lesson. Champagne is the cause of man's predilection for war. Not a psychological disposition of human beings, but Champagne! Swords were created in order to facilitate the problem of corkage. So once again the French have had their impact on history and they have left us with a double-edged (pun intended) legacy. On the one hand, incessant warfare. On the other, the joy of champagne. So next time you are enjoying a glass of bubbly, offer up a toast to Mars. (And be sure to open the bottle with a sword.)