Nicole Schapiro's Articles
The Most-Often-Made Negotiation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
by Nicole Schapiro
Published in The San Jose Mercury News and Bay Area Business Women.
When I was ten, I learned to dance by standing on my grandpa’s feet, eventually graduating to the floor, depending on my own two feet. I was thrilled to learn with Grandpa even when I made mistakes. He used to say “It’s okay little one, mistakes are gifts. They are to let you know you must do it differently.” Read More »
Everything in Life is Negotiable!
by Nicole Schapiro
Who is in charge of your life? Are you making most of the major decisions that affect you? Or are those decisions made by a spouse, a parent, a child, an employer, a coworker, a friend? Often the people whom we allow to influence or make decisions for us has been dead for years: a parent whom we could never please, a religious figure, a teacher. Read More »
Playing the Game: Tennis as Metaphor
by Nicole Schapiro
Published in The Bay Area Business Woman.
When Anna Marks, publisher of Bay Area Business Woman, asked me to write an article about how I used sports as a tool in my consulting business and personal life I noted that from my early years on, sports have always played a part as “motivator” in my life. As a child I was a gymnast in Communist Hungary, then I played soccer, and when my daughter wanted to participate (rather than stand on the sidelines watching her brothers play soccer), I helped form one of the first young girls soccer teams in Walnut Creek.Read More »