“I’m really nervous about this. I enjoy my job and love the company. They treat me well and provide me with the flexibility and support to personally and professionally succeed. But I feel like I’m undercompensated relative to the value I add. I don’t want to leave...
About 15 years ago I started a negotiation software company and began a series of some of my most professionally challenging negotiations. Failing at any of them could have marked the death knell of the company. Here are three lessons I learned from those start-up...
Mistakes happen in negotiation and in life. Our challenge? How to avoid them. Last month I described five common negotiation mistakes. Here are five more. Mistake #6: Underestimating the value of personal likeability I do about 50 percent of my training for lawyers...
I have a confession to make – despite having spent an enormous amount of time in the last 25 years studying, teaching and consulting on negotiations full-time, I have made some negotiation mistakes. In fact, I would suggest that everyone – even the most...
I was shocked and dismayed a year ago when millions of us were grounded and effectively sentenced to house arrest as the world confronted the pandemic that upended many of our lives and livelihoods. Since then, we have all personally and professionally adapted in...
I was recently debating a public policy issue with my 15-year-old son, who has recently become enamored with a view quite different from my own. As the back-and-forth wound down without either of us substantially changing our opinions, he said he had “won” the debate....
I recently reached a dead-end in a negotiation largely involving one major price issue. I didn’t want to come down – and my counterpart wouldn’t go up. And I knew he had reached his end point, because he had already gone back to his boss twice for more, and we had a...
A client recently asked for negotiation advice about selling his business. He’s in his 40s and has been growing his business for about 15 years. He started as its marketing guru, progressed to an ownership share and took over its helm when its founders decided to...
She wouldn’t budge. Despite our concerted efforts to illustrate the unreasonableness of her position, she had dug in her heels. Or so we were told. The negotiation? The purchase of a house. The participants? The seller, the seller’s real estate agent, the potential...
