To get a better answer, ask a better question
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To get a better answer, ask a better question

Throughout our work we engage a variety of management consulting and legal services, either directly or through our client. Regularly we are handed the results of previous engagements, too often accompanied with statements like: ‘this is OK but not as useful as we had hoped’, or ‘doesn’t quite answer the question’. We confine our observations…

Contract negotiation: why the public sector needs to drive a hard bargain
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Contract negotiation: why the public sector needs to drive a hard bargain

As published in the Mandarin June 19, 2018 by Kiah MD John Glenn The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short;but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.-Michelangelo In 2017, the federal government executed $47 billion of new contracts.1 Negotiating a 1%…