Negotiation in everyday life 1

By Elh@m@WinnipegNo Comments
Five more minutes! This is how my 4 year old starts negotiating. Five more minutes until we leave the playground, television or her best friend’s place. This doesn’t always work. Sometimes the baby is crying and we have to leave right away. Sometimes we’ve already run late. But it works quite often. She gets five more minutes until I get ready to leave or turn the TV off. Even if she doesn’t succeed to get her five minutes for a couple of times, she won’t give up. There is always a chance and she will do all her best to get the chance. Do I do the same? Not always. I usually prejudge the answer. They won’t let us. Let’s not hear the no. Once she asked me to take her to a random bouncy castle on a school yard. I was sure they won’t let us and told her not to get upset when she hears no. But they welcomed us and gave us crafts...
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Business networking fun facts

Business networking fun facts

By Elh@m@WinnipegNo Comments
Networking is a hot trend in business these days. For extroverts, it’s such a blessing. They are rewarded by what they enjoy: Talking to new people, growing their circle of contacts and making friends. Socializing is done by instinct. For introverts, it’s a skill. They have to work on it everyday. The “fake it until you make it” is an everyday feed for them. Ironic is that sometimes introverts are better at networking than extroverts. The fact is, although you may be a happy extrovert enjoying speaking to people and socializing, business networking is a skill. If you don’t really work on it, you’re just wasting your energy. We really need a good network for a higher work and life standard. No matter if you are an introvert or extrovert, or are in business and law, or in technology and engineering. You need a network! There are many articles and videos telling you that you “must” go into unwanted meetings or call people you...
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Introduction

Introduction

By Elh@m@WinnipegNo Comments
I’ve been working in technology companies my whole career. I’ve been working and competing with genius engineers and technicians and although I’m an engineer too, I was always shocked by how brilliant some of them are. What made me survive and even go forward in this environment was my ability to describe sophisticated systems in simple language, and to convince clients, funders and employees to sign lucrative contracts. One of my friends at work called me “Queen of credit”. And the ironic thing is that we didn't have a credit system back in my home country. Most financial interactions were by cash or debit or cheques. I wrote letters, went to meetings and on phone calls to convince banks, investors and angels to invest in our small business. And that was how we grew from only me, to an established company with 20 staff. When I moved to Canada, I started my technology company, Rahsam, here too. But everything doesn't go the way we...
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