How can I enhance that voluptuous flavor without overpowering it? Or wake it up and give it an edge without pushing

leave something on the table. Most people approach negotiations as a zero-sum game—you lose, I win. If you leave something on the table—meaning you don’t negotiate every last dollar or last detail—everyone walks away feeling as though they won. Each person feels good about the deal, and isn’t that the way we want everyone to feel when they do busin

First, you need to figure out what the other guy wants. Then you can structure a deal that gives him what he wants within parameters that you can live with, so everyone feels good about it.

My happy tour of Paris took a sad turn on 9/11,

also learned that it’s important to listen to advice and then decide if it’s true to who you are and what you’re trying to accomplish. Here was a world-class creative genius sharing his

are visual), and say, “Oh my God, that looks delicious!” Then, I

“It’s not what you say that counts, it’s what they hear.”

overshadowing what I used to love. I felt that I wasn’t doing anything new, and

Lucas: “We’re all living in cages with the door wide open.”