The Seven Tensions of Negotiation: Breathe and Let the Opposition Make the Tough Decisions

If you are a professional, you have had some instruction or training in negotiation skills. What if I were to tell you that the training you received made you a weaker negotiator?

Negotiation is a basic human activity that arises out of wants, desires, needs, and disputes. You want something I have. I want to trade for something you have. You believe I wronged you, and you want damages. As organized collections of people, we negotiate terms of exchange.

In The Seven Tensions of Negotiation, y...