How to Manage Difficult Staff: Gen Z Edition
Wondering how to manage difficult staff? Some managers are having trouble with employees who entered the workforce during the Covid-19 pandemic. Here are some tips for dealing … Read How to Manage Difficult Staff: Gen Z Edition
How to Set Negotiation Goals as a Manager
To encourage the negotiators they supervise to do their best, managers routinely rely on performance benchmarks, the promise of bonuses, and other types of goals. … Read How to Set Negotiation Goals as a Manager
Negotiation Research on Mediation Techniques: Focus on Interests
There is a better way to resolve your dispute: by hiring an expert mediator with a focus on interests – the needs, desires, or concerns that underlie … Read This Post
Collaborative Negotiation Examples: Tenants and Landlords
In the best of times, negotiators brim with resources, energy, and optimism, which inspire collaboration and creativity. In the worst of times, negotiators are so stressed and … Read This Post
Ripeness Theory in Dispute Resolution: Seizing the Day
The longer a dispute drags on, the less likely a collaborative solution often appears to be. But that view may be pessimistic: At a certain point, the … Read This Post
Panda Diplomacy and Business Negotiations: Applying Soft Power
In 2011, Emiko Okuyama, the mayor of Sendai, Japan, launched a business negotiation that, at the time, seemed relatively straightforward. Sendai had been devastated by the earthquake … Read This Post
International Negotiations: North and South Korea Talks Collapse
On June 12, North Korea and South Korea were supposed to have met in Seoul to explore whether they could get beyond their decades-old divisions and forge … Read This Post
How AI Negotiation Bots Can Deepen Classroom Learning
In the classroom, AI negotiation bots can give students valuable opportunities to role-play negotiations and develop their personal negotiating style, a team of instructors at MIT has … Read This Post
Paternalistic Leadership: Beyond Authoritarianism
What’s your first reaction to the concept of paternalistic leadership? If you’re new to the concept and from an individualistic culture, such as the United States, Canada, … Read Paternalistic Leadership: Beyond Authoritarianism
An Exclusivity Period: A Useful Tool for Eliminating the Competition
An exclusivity period can help you negotiate without interference from an unwanted third-party competitor. To benefit from an exclusivity period, follow our expert advice for buyers and … Read This Post
Successes & Messes: A Notoriously Bad Business Contract
In business contract negotiations, we’re sometimes tempted to break the mold and do things in a new and entirely different way. But if our strategies aren’t supported … Read This Post
An Example of the Anchoring Effect – What to Share in Negotiation
The prospect of sharing information with a negotiating counterpart can be scary – it can fix your counterpart into a position at the negotiation table you didn’t … Read This Post