969: Scott Walker | Persuasion Tactics of a Hostage Negotiator
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
If you want to understand communication, emotional regulation, and bargaining under pressure, join us here with former hostage negotiator Scott Walker!
What We Discuss with Scott Walker:- The role of trust in successful negotiations.
- How emotional intelligence plays into hostage negotiations.
- The minimalist toolkit of a hostage negotiator.
- Navigating legal and ethical boundaries in negotiations.
- The perils of fame in kidnapping situations, and the importance of ransom discipline and social media caution.
- And much more...
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| 0:12.0 | Agreement is one thing, but it's not the same as the release and safe recovery of the |
| 0:17.4 | hostages. |
| 0:18.4 | It's only when they're back with us in a safe territory, back in the camp or the embassy compound or the medical |
| 0:25.5 | centre everybody can kind of breathe a sigh of relief and can have a hug and you know pat |
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| 1:27.4 | Today on the show, hostage negotiator Scott Walker. Scott served as a |
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