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Teach Your Students to Manage Two Party and Multiparty Negotiations

| | Teaching Negotiation

Check Out Our Bestselling Two Party and Multiparty Negotiation Simulations
More than just the increased number of parties at the table, there are key differences in how negotiators … Read This Post

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How to Write a Contract that Lasts

| | Dealmaking

Joint ventures, strategic alliances, purchasing agreements, and other types of partnerships between organizations often begin with a great deal of promise—and a hefty amount of risk. Serious … Read How to Write a Contract that Lasts

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Negotiation Training with Heart

| | Negotiation Training

In typical negotiation skills training, we are taught to get beyond our emotions and look at situations rationally. There’s merit to this approach, of course, as feelings … Read Negotiation Training with Heart

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A Bad BATNA for Modern Farmer Magazine

| | BATNA

In business negotiations, our mistakes sometimes end up affecting not only the current deal, but our best alternative to a negotiated agreement, or BATNA, in deals that … Read A Bad BATNA for Modern Farmer Magazine

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Putting Negotiation Training to Work: The Limits of Lectures

| | Negotiation Training

Negotiation training lectures, like publications, are an excellent means of transmitting knowledge from an expert to a less knowledgeable audience.

I have attended many amazing lectures on a … Read This Post

Successes & Messes: Courtroom drama: An unscripted dispute over to Kill a Mockingbird adaptation

| | Conflict Resolution

This spring, the estate of Harper Lee, the deceased author of the classic American novel To Kill a Mockingbird, sued the producers of a Broadway stage adaptation … Read This Post

Setting the right table

| | International Negotiation

On March 8, U.S. president Donald Trump shocked even his own White House staff when he revealed that he had accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean … Read Setting the right table

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How to Deal with Difficult People

| | Dealing with Difficult People

We’ve all met them: people who prefer competition over collaboration, stonewalling over problem solving, tough talk over active listening. Think of the boss who refuses to allow … Read How to Deal with Difficult People

Teach Crucial Leadership Skills

| | Teaching Negotiation

A Crisis Creates a Leadership Vacuum
A publicly traded company on the NYSE with a reputation for business savvy and lucrative deal making is caught in a morally … Read Teach Crucial Leadership Skills

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Deal Design: Strategies for Complex Dealmaking

| | Dealmaking

As experienced negotiators well know, the more parties involved in a negotiation, the more difficult it often is to come to agreement, due in part to the … Read Deal Design: Strategies for Complex Dealmaking

Deflated by your deal? Get them back to the table

| | International Negotiation

According to U.S. president Donald Trump, trade pacts forged by past American presidents have left the nation with a slew of raw deals. To reduce trade deficits, … Read Deflated by your deal? Get them back to the table

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Bargaining at a Fever Pitch

| | Leadership Skills

Have you ever won an auction only to realize later that you overbid for the prize? In competitive bidding situations, it’s easy to get carried away in … Read Bargaining at a Fever Pitch