Hello friends,

For just about 7 years now – the BusinessWatch Network has upheld the age-old Post Office mantra:

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can deter BWN from delivering content to help subscribers do a better job – and advance their career.”

Of course, I have to admit it’s been a bit easier to hold up the mantra delivering email newsletters.  As it happens, snow, rain, heat and gloom of night (not even sure what that last one really means) aren’t a problem. Bandwidth limits, ISP outages, Email filters, and failing Gigabit switches – now that’s another story. Yikes! No wonder the USPS is in trouble.

Anyway, over the last 7 years we’ve seen a plethora of heavily read business topics come and go. As the person responsible for selecting each article (I guess that makes me the Publisher). It’s been fascinating to get a first-hand look at what’s important to folks from HR to IT to the C-Suite and everyone in between. In many ways I feel like we take the pulse of Corporate America (not to be confused with Captain America – albeit to be successful in Corporate America today often requires Captain America like skills) each week. I love this job.

So when I noticed that something highly unusual happened in our last issue of HRWatch, FinanceWatch, TechWatch, Sales&MktgWatch, MgmtWatch & ExecWatch I wanted to share it. Specifically, a single article drew the most reads across all of the above job-functions. 5 Things to Never Say While Negotiating

Is anyone else thinking: “I’d love to find out how others view themselves as negotiators”? Hmmm….not such a bad thing to know before you head-off too, well, ahh, umm – negotiate.

How would you rate yourself, on a scale of 1-10 [1 being best; 10 being worst] as a successful negotiator? What’s your title?

Stay tuned, stay safe and stay thirsty my friend.

Mark