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The Most Challenging Dynamic in Multi-Million-Dollar Negotiations Sports attorney and Boras Corporation President Scott Boras talks about the relationship between self-understanding and performance.

By David Meltzer

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On this episode of The Playbook, sports attorney and The Boras Corporation President Scott Boras shares his insight on:

  • Why growing up on a farm taught him what it takes to grow an organization from the ground up [2:09].
  • How his former college roommate and current Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll nearly convinced him to represent football players [3:58].
  • His best advice to help anyone understand the power behind the word "no" and overcome rejection [9:49].
  • The most challenging dynamic he finds when it comes to multi-million-dollar negotiations [17:45].

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David Meltzer

Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of Entrepreneur's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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