Cathy Sweeney

We spend a lot of our time negotiating in our business; sometimes those meetings are pleasant, sometimes not. Here are five things to remember as we hit the negotiating table in 2014, brought to you by our friends on the stage.

As real estate service providers, we've been known to lock up our notes, hide our ‘secret files,’ and attach code names to our client’s project. All of this might be necessary, but with the recent focus on snooping, we have to ask ourselves: When is it appropriate and wise to share information?

So what does baseball have to do with commercial real estate? As it turns out, we do get a few lessons from the cinematic efforts of America’s favorite pastime. Here are five—and how they apply to our professional lives.