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A friend of mine was headed into an important negotiation and he wanted to run by me his quote-unquote

negotiation tactics that he'd been studying and was planning to use.

As the first view, it became painfully obvious

that his negotiation was going to be a total disaster.

Through the use of these contrived and BS tactics

that most people are taught by the way,

he had lost sight of the point the only thing

that makes a negotiation successful in any negotiation or in any human exchange of

any kind there's always only one point I'll tell you what that is here in a second. Just understand first that we are constantly negotiating all day, every day. Now, while negotiation might conjure up images of hostage situations or trade delegations and large corporate mergers and acquisitions.

The reality is negotiation is around us all the time.

You see, as a social species, it is a fundamental part of our interaction in business and life.

Anytime we're trying to influence or get somebody to agreement on anything, we're negotiating.

From getting your kid to get dressed for school in the morning and not in his

Halloween costume to getting your spouse to agree to pick up the kids from school and

not be p.o. To getting your boss to let you have a more flexible work schedule, and love the idea.

To your coworker wanting to change the project strategy that you've already agreed upon,

to your getting your desk neighbor to stop crunching chips, which is so gnarly and distracting

to your friend wanting to go to chick fillet for lunch

versus the deli down the street where you can get a healthy salad

and then of course also negotiating for raises and promotions and time off

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