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![CBI's Guide to Managing Effective Meetings]()
CBI's Guide to Managing Effective Meetings
December 2, 2017
It's time to bend Robert's Rules of Order. This how-to guide highlights advance preparation, creating an agenda, summarization, and use of a meeting manager as key components of meetings that allow participants to reach agreement.
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![AsiaLink Business Briefs: India]()
AsiaLink Business Briefs: India
December 19, 2025
Even at the best of times, negotiation is tricky business. Negotiating cross-culturally adds another layer of challenges with misunderstandings potentially derailing the process. Here's CBI's primer for successfully negotiating with Indian counterparts.
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![A Mutual Gains Approach to Corporate Stakeholder Engagement]()
A Mutual Gains Approach to Corporate Stakeholder Engagement
December 19, 2025
Drawing from multiple case experiences, this article shows that global supply chain management in the 21st century requires more than just token Corporate Social Responsiblity or sustainability initiatives. Companies must adopt a mutual gains approach to maximize value for themselves and others.
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![AsiaLink Business Briefs: Malaysia]()
AsiaLink Business Briefs: Malaysia
December 19, 2025
Even at the best of times, negotiation is tricky business. Negotiating cross-culturally adds another layer of challenges with misunderstandings potentially derailing the process. Here's CBI's primer for successfully negotiating with Malaysian counterparts.
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![AsiaLink Business Briefs: Japan]()
AsiaLink Business Briefs: Japan
December 19, 2025
Even at the best of times, negotiation is tricky business. Negotiating cross-culturally adds another layer of challenges with misunderstandings potentially derailing the process. Here's CBI's primer for successfully negotiating with Japanese counterparts.
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![Dealing with An Angrier Public, Part I]()
Dealing with An Angrier Public, Part I
December 2, 2017
In 1996, CBI published the book Dealing with an Angry Public, which put forward six principles to help governments and corporations win back the public’s trust. Today, despite positive results for many organizations that have put the principles to work, trust in U.S. institutions is at an all-time low, and collaboration, civility, and a commitment to building consensus are in short supply in the country's political system. This article offers strategies for making progress in this challenging moment.
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![Consensus Building, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution for Heritage Place Management]()
Consensus Building, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution for Heritage Place Management
December 19, 2025
Based on a CBI-Getty Conservation Institute workshop on consensus building for management of heritage places, this report shows how consensus building approaches can help heritage managers address stakeholder concerns, build on complementary and shared interests and values, and make management plans and decisions more sustainable.
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![AsiaLink Business Briefs: China]()
AsiaLink Business Briefs: China
December 19, 2025
Even at the best of times, negotiation is tricky business. Negotiating cross-culturally adds another layer of challenges with misunderstandings potentially derailing the process. Here's CBI's primer for successfully negotiating with Chinese counterparts.
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![Reimagining the Future of Education in America]()
Reimagining the Future of Education in America
CBI and Convergence work with key education leaders to create a shared vision of what an extraordinary 21st-century education might look like.
November 28, 2017
CBI and its partner Convergence design a highly creative process with key education leaders, creating a shared vision of what an extraordinary 21st-century education might look like for all learners and working together to realize it.
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![Facilitating Mass Moves]()
Facilitating Mass Moves
CBI collaborated with state senators on the MassMoves project, helping residents voice their thoughts on transportation priorities in Massachusetts.
November 28, 2017
CBI collaborates with the state Senate on the MassMoves project, helping residents voice their thoughts on transportation priorities in Massachusetts.
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![Building Consensus on Mini-Grids in Developing Countries]()
Building Consensus on Mini-Grids in Developing Countries
CBI worked with the World Bank Group to improve collaboration among diverse stakeholders to accelerate rural electrification in remote regions in the developing world.
November 28, 2017
Working with the World Bank Group, CBI helps improve collaboration among diverse stakeholders to accelerate rural electrification in remote regions in the developing world.
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![Building Leaders' Capacity to Collaborate on the Sustainable Development Goals]()
Building Leaders' Capacity to Collaborate on the Sustainable Development Goals
CBI and the UN System Staff College partnered to strengthen UN and national leaders’ collaboration skills.
November 28, 2017
CBI partners with the UN System Staff College to train senior-level UN leaders, government officials, and other development stakeholders in consensus building to support effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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