Steve Gates (@SteveGatesTGP) profile picture

CEO of The Gap Partnership, negotiation specialists.

Author of The Negotiation Book
Joined July 2010
If you find negotiating frustrating, it's OK, you are normal. Negotiation is the art of managing frustration.
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Negotiators who do not plan & procrastinate, inevitably have their options dictated by circumstance.
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Life is like riding a bike. To keep your balance you must keep moving forward.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. Understanding is different from believing.
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“@businessgp: Foresight over forecast. Understanding long term informs short term. Short term rarely informs long term. #leadership” +1
Negotiating Tips for People Who HATE Negotiating | LinkedIn linkedin.com/today/post/arti…
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House price negotiations are going to require even more creativity with prices spiralling ever higher. telegraph.co.uk/finance/pers… #negotiation
Teachers' strike takes place as negotiations continue. bit.ly/1dqo5tz #negotiation #TeachersStrike
So proud that after a years research and development we are finally launching our two day Creative Negotiator Workshop.
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The difference between where we are now and where we want to be in the end boils down to one critical link: relationships.
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The Negotiation Book is now ranking No. 2 on Amazon. Not bad for a hard back!
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If our Government understood how to negotiate we could save ourselves millions in waste. tinyurl.com/bnbpk48
Mmmm may have to get into this?? RT @McKQuarterly: May 2012 Newsletter--How your company can use social media bit.ly/IomwNj
I’ve just sponsored Gap girls in Race for Life. A great team effort to support a great cause. Cancer Research UK @ raceforlifesponsorme.org/gap…
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Roger Jones at the HRD conference on Story telling. Very good.
Bad day for the UK economy but a great day for TGP. With help from our clients, we have just cracked our latest product!
I just bought: Game Theory 101. Should be good bed time reading. amazon.co.uk/dp/B005L7ANWC/r…
If you introduce just 3 incremental risk related variables into your deals you could increase the value of every agreenment you make by 30%!