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Great Women Leaders Negotiate

| | Leadership Skills

Great women leaders are no different than great male leaders—except that they may have faced more discrimination, lower expectations, and stronger resistance along the way. When women … Read Great Women Leaders Negotiate

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New International Negotiation Simulations: Teaching International Negotiation with Current Global Dynamics

| | Teaching Negotiation

With the spread of a global pandemic, climate crisis, and the war on terror, resolving international conflicts has become increasingly complex. Training to address these difficult global … Read This Post

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The Mediation Process and Dispute Resolution

| | Mediation

As compared with other forms of dispute resolution, mediation can have an informal, improvisational feel. Mediation can include some or all of the following six steps. … Read The Mediation Process and Dispute Resolution

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10 Negotiation Failures

| | Negotiation Skills

Here’s a list of 10 negotiation failures drawn from recent negotiations in the news—including deals that were over before they started and those that proved disastrous after … Read 10 Negotiation Failures

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What Is an Umbrella Agreement?

| | Dispute Resolution

Business negotiators tend to want the best of both worlds. When reaching an agreement, they want to pin down parties’ respective rights and responsibilities, but they also … Read What Is an Umbrella Agreement?

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Deceptive Tactics in Negotiation: How to Ward Them Off

| | Negotiation Skills

Deceptive tactics in negotiation can run rampant: parties “stretch” the numbers, conceal key information, and make promises they know they can’t keep. The benefits of negotiation in … Read This Post

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Negotiating Salary: Confronting the Gender Pay Gap

| | Salary Negotiations

In December 2014, leaks of data hacked from Sony Pictures revealed that when negotiating salary for their roles in the film American Hustle, actresses Jennifer Lawrence and Amy … Read This Post

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Dealing with challenging negotiators

| | Dealing with Difficult People

Three research studies offer advice on how to cope with counterparts who display varying degrees of difficult behavior. … Read Dealing with challenging negotiators

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Directive Leadership: When It Does—and Doesn’t—Work

| | Leadership Skills

These days, directive leadership tends to be out of fashion, with many experts promoting a more egalitarian management style. Yet directive leadership has its time and place, … Read This Post

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Strategies to Resolve Conflict over Deeply Held Values

| | Conflict Resolution

In negotiation, when deeply held beliefs and principles are at stake, typical strategies to resolve conflict may fail, whether in family conflict scenarios or in business. These … Read This Post

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Win-Win Bargaining: Private Negotiation, Public Auction, or Both?

| | Business Negotiations

Win-win bargaining requires us to choose the right dealmaking process. News stories involving Amazon and Apple highlight the pros and cons of private negotiations, public auctions, and … Read This Post

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What is Alternative Dispute Resolution?

| | Dispute Resolution

So, you’re stuck in a serious dispute, but you’re desperate to avoid the hassle and expense of a court case. You’ve heard about alternative dispute resolution but … Read What is Alternative Dispute Resolution?