All legal cases are stated like this “applicant” v “defendant”. In this case “CO v ID”, it is the “corona virus / COVID-19” against “your ID = YOU”. Either you are providing health & essential services and fighting the battle of your live -> THANK YOU !!!!! Or you are Read more…
Facing the COVID-19 virus, we should all help in any way we can. I can do a little by providing you with a graphic presentation of the FIDIC 1999 clause regarding Force Majeure. This is probably helpful for Employers, Engineers, Contractors and Subcontractors. Have a look at the short movie Read more…
Another important lessons in our popular series “Contract Management & Music” is about notification in contracts. Read, listen and reflect with the music of Lilly Wood & The Prick below: When is the right time for notification in contracts? Yeah, you never said a word You didn’t send me no Read more…
I recently attended a live concert of Sting in Grenoble, France. Until that moment, I had forgotten his song “Russians”. Bombastic, clearly from another time, perfectly echoing the Cold War tensions. Listen to the text! I suddenly realized that Sting was singing an important lesson about negotiation. A lesson, still Read more…
This is a publication about how to become decisive in negotiations. For those who are a bit familiar with “negotiation literature”, the above title is deliberately provocative. If you already understand the underlying joke and references … cool! If not, no worries, I will explain everything here below. “Getting to Read more…
« Best wishes for 2020 !» … Don’t you have the feeling that most of the wishes you receive are nice but also lacking focus? No help to do something really better in the freshly started year? For 2020, on your Projects, I wish you to convert more of your Read more…
Whether to hide information about your own position, or whether sharing information in negotiation is the best approach (to find, jointly with your counterpart, a solution covering both parties’ interests) is a question every negotiator has to consider. Popular wisdom is to hide information Intuitively, most of us believe that Read more…
A good moment to look back with… happy Clients consolidated scope/offering further development (dispute resolution) … and look forward: ready to support you in 2020 with … contract management tendering for contracts contract negotiation contract risk management commercial dispute resolution … to transform contract & risk management into negotiated results. Read more…
Because trust is such an important factor in a negotiation, we would like to share this article with you: The Essential Importance Of Trust: How To Build It Or Restore It Author: Dennis Jaffe; Click here to view the original article. There are just a few elemental forces that hold Read more…
On the 26th of November, the alumni of the International Construction Contracts Post Graduate from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University organized an event around FIDIC contracts in Paris attracting a full meeting room. You can see the speaker list by clicking here. I would like to share the content of this Read more…