Category Archives: Agreements

To me the second most primitive way of approaching an argument or dispute is to accuse the other person of starting to piss me off. And the most primitive way, in my view, is to outright accuse the other person of now … Continue reading →

Imagine we were in the perfect startup team. Then we would select the perfect market And prepare so that we would not run out of cash And we would have made sure we beat our competition And got our pricing … Continue reading →

Possible book cover for my next book Stand Up for Stepping Up, Seven steps to forming better agreements See the Seven Steps in a bit more detail

After 25 years of working on our personal values we have come pretty close to putting them into some form of format or mission statement for our new business Pablow Inc. It is pretty simple really, where we believe that … Continue reading →

Whether it is during a conversation or while trying to get a conversion in sales, it seems to me that we to think in binary (right/wrong, win/lose, seller/buyer) or in over advocating our own idea, trying to convince and win … Continue reading →

On my blog I have the quote by F Scott Fitzgerald  that: “The measure of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas and still function”. Well I think I have come up with a better … Continue reading →

Right – wrong, good – bad, hot – cold, up – down, far – near, responsible – irresponsible, love – hate, truth – lie, etc, etc. I was telling my brother that we seem to think in “good” and “bad” … Continue reading →

It seems to me that at times we can be so impatient that we will try find the short cut instead of going the full distance and end up with a short circuit. I think most of our problems comes from … Continue reading →

A bit more on this double helix from a ratio that I prepared earlier. Now call me crazy but it is nice to be able to use maths to explain agreements and there by disagreements.