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As the founder and CEO of the Core Solutions Group, I spend a great deal of time thinking and speaking about mediation, negotiation, conflict management, leadership and communication. I am told I should write some of these thoughts down… so, here goes…
Both the Public Service Reform and Finance and Public Administration Committees of the Scottish Parliament have made calls for views about “Pre-Budget Scrutiny for 2027-28” and the affordability and sustainability of Scotland’s tax and spending …
Last week, I attended a showing at the EICC of a deeply shocking film entitled People’s Emergency Briefing. We have become accustomed recently to focusing on AI and national security as real and imminent threats …
David Hoffman is a very highly regarded US mediator and an equally authoritative Harvard academic, whose writing about mediation and conflict resolution is always rich and thoughtful. Thus, his book about ‘The Art of Impasse-Breaking …
The founder of a site where AI models communicate with one another compared them to a “new species that is on planet Earth that is now smarter than us.” These seemingly apocalyptic words, in a recent …
Two recent events caused me to ponder how we go about what we do, with messages that resonate at this time of year when we naturally look afresh at who we are and what we …
“Mediation is no-one’s little brother. Mediation is not alternative dispute resolution. It is not the easy option. Mediation is how the most intractable issues can be resolved.” In over twenty years of writing in these law …
“There are existential threats, combined with existential opportunities” “If we work together, we shall achieve and do so much more” “I fear we could drown in money and die for want of services” “We need more than football …
“But have you ever cycled across The Meadows?” In those days, cycleways had not yet been marked out in Edinburgh’s central green space and it was still forbidden to cycle there. “Yes, but…” Too late. …
On 28 and 29 May 2025, John Sturrock gave presentations at the annual IAM Conference in Gold Coast, Australia, entitled “Shifting Sands”. John’s themes were Regressing from Getting to Yes: The Return of Zero Sum? and …
In 1996, I attended Harvard’s Program on Negotiation to learn, for the first time, about interest-based negotiation. I was privileged to study under the legendary Professor Roger Fisher, co-author, along with Wiliam Ury, of Getting …
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