Dealing with negotiation power plays

The Amazon-Hachette dispute suggests ways to overcome hardball tactics

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In negotiation, visions of collaborating to create new sources of value can quickly evaporate when the other party engages in a power play—such as penalizing us financially, attacking our reputation, walking away, or threatening to do all of the above. Suddenly we find ourselves on the defensive, scrambling to do more than just break even.

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