Persuasive Litigator: Don’t Fall for False Consensus

By Dr. Ken Broda-Bahm: All reasonable people think like you do. They will notice what you notice, perceive it as you do, find it credible, or not, like you would, and they will be persuaded, or not, in the same way that you would. Okay, give it a moment of thought and you wouldn’t actually believe that. But fall back on your normal habits, and you may act as though that were true. You might make the tacit assumption when analyzing an audience that they are fundamentally like you are. It is a bias, and a strong one. Social scientists…

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Walmart Corporate – Fact Check: The New York Times “The Corporate Daddy”

We saw this article in The New York Times and couldn’t overlook how wildly inaccurate it is, so we had some fun with it. I hope you will too.

Source: blog.walmart.com

IAPP : EU Approves Align Technologies as BCRs Enter Their “Golden Age”

By Angelique Carson, CIPP/US
With Safe Harbor constantly under fire, the binding corporate rules (BCR) process is becoming an increasingly attractive way for co

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Negotiation Secret #33: Use Odd Numbers

Negotiators would be well served by using odd, rather than round, numbers.So says Columbia University Business School Professor Malia Mason, co-author of last year’s published finding that bargaining

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SECs White Says Directors are Companies Most Important Gatekeepers

Speaking at the annual Stanford Directors College this week, SEC Chair Mary Jo White addressed the role of directors as gatekeepers for shareholders selfreporting and cooperating in SEC investigations and the relationship between the SECs whistleblower program and a companys own internal compliance programs.

Source: www.complianceweek.com