Or that Ray Muzyka, co-CEO of the BioWare multiplayer videogame company, may be hard to bluff because he won the 2006 Celebrity Poker Tournament.
FORBES: What Everyone Gets Wrong About How to Be a Successful Salesperson
The leaked papal letters also show that Cardinal Bertone tried unsuccessfully to bluff the then archbishop of Milan into resigning a post that controls the city's Catholic University.
If you want to know which poker hands to bluff with, why neighbourhoods with permanent residents have more road crossings or why digital communication makes the world spikier not flatter, Mr Harford's book provides some answers.
He's here to call their bluff, to tell them the truth they don't want to hear: most of their principles are bad (if well intentioned) and will ultimately lead to nobody making any money, having any ownership over the quality of their creations, or any way to support themselves on the internet -- outside of giant companies whose main source of revenue is online advertising.
Individuals, companies, and governments all over the world look like they are about to call his bluff.
That meant people on benefits knew ministers were able to call their bluff.
Still, inside them the idea of self-imposed exile has risen in salience: from a bluff to a plan B.
And many prominent Republican Congressmen are loath to call their bluff.
His successor will face the dilemma of whether to shut off the Carlsbad irrigators to make sure that enough water can flow down to the Red Bluff reservoir in Texas.
After a few minutes on the beach, you'll be led up a bluff to see their nesting ground, where the birds often return to the same mate and same nest year after year.
An amber hunter named Sue Hendrickson, working with the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, a company that collects and prepares fossils, had wandered off to explore a bluff as her crew changed a flat tire, and came back with a handful of dinosaur.
He thinks the mayor's threat to shut up shop may be just a bluff in an attempt to wrest more money from the state, which is busy with another racing-industry crisis.
Its well-paid pilots (300 of them to fly a mere ten planes) had called Mr de Irala's bluff by refusing to accept a restructuring plan.
Mr Walker added the group decided to "call everyone's bluff" and call in PWC in a attempt to rekindle negotiations.
In contrast, men tend to use threats, bluff, stake out extreme positions, and use competitive and confrontational tactics.
They win because they apply finely honed strategies and tactics, calculate and recalculate the odds, read their opponents well, avoid becoming predictable and know how and when to make a good bluff.
FORBES: Luck Vs. Skill, Process Vs. Outcome, Doing Vs. Not Doing
In order for it to compel companies to take a license, to prove its offensive capabilities were robust and not just a bluff, Myhrvold actually had to sue.
It may be a negotiating bluff, designed to facilitate acquiescence to less outlandish, but still-insidious demands.
Some in Baghdad are tempted to call the Kurds' bluff and let them go their own way.
He pointed to a green on the bluff overlooking the lake.
FORBES: Herbert Kohler, Pete Dye and the Fruits of Creative Head-Butting
He will be tempted to try to call Mr Blair's bluff, and bog the talks down with a series of legalistic objections.
It's not the first time both the administration and congressional Republicans have tried to call each other's bluff over the spending cuts.
Perhaps in 2012 someone called his bluff, forcing Newt to actually run.
That may be bluff, but it plays to the second point, momentum towards competition.
The company has installed micro-turbines a top light poles at stores in California and Massachusetts that generate between 2 to 3 kilowatts of electricity but Red Bluff is the first facility that will boast a full-sized wind turbine like those found on wind farms that generate hundreds of megawatts of power.
FORBES: Walmart Erects Its First Megawatt Wind Turbine In California
The bluff general and carping journos used to get along well.
The first day of the trail crosses the wide open desert panoramas of Euro Ridge, advancing to the breathtaking, unpeopled expanse seen from Brinkley Bluff on day four or five.
From there, Williams reached out the director, asked to be an executive producer and offered to do what he could to promote the film and tell Snow's story, which he got to know more of when they met in tha Bluff.
应用推荐