When negotiating … look for similarities to find influence By Sam Ardery The natural tendency when we negotiate is to focus on what we want. What we want, however, has no influence on the other person, who is also focusing on what he or she wants. The focus on our own desires also takes on…
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When negotiating…look for similarities to find influence
When negotiating … look for similarities to find influence By Sam Ardery The natural tendency when we negotiate is to focus on what we want. What we want, however, has no influence on the other person, who is also focusing on what he or she wants. The focus on our own desires also takes on…
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Lawsuits, pain and grief
Lawsuits tend to end when everyone has had enough pain, like most of our conflicts. The beginning of a lawsuit is not so different from other conflicts in our lives—we are sure we are right, and if the other person will just be reasonable they will come around to our way of thinking. When…
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Positively Conflicted by Sam Ardery
Sam Ardery has published Positively Conflicted. Sam draws on his decades of experience mediating more than four thousand disputes across the country as well as his own life experiences to provide insightful advice for engaging with courage, compassion and wisdom in a combative world. Positively Conflicted invites readers to reexamine their instinctive and often destructive…
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When negotiating…look for similarities to find influence
When negotiating … look for similarities to find influence By Sam Ardery The natural tendency when we negotiate is to focus on what we want. What we want, however, has no influence on the other person, who is also focusing on what he or she wants. The focus on our own desires also takes on…
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