#negotiation tactics

[thefirsthogokage]

John Rogers on the Writer's Strike of 2023 Negotiations.

This is really great stuff on listening to and understanding what you're hearing from negotiaters and what that means you need to pay attention to. (This man is a genius.)

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I'll update this if he adds more.

[thatrandomblogsays]

I’m so happy for them

[Image Description: Castiel from Supernatural is saying I love you, underneath is an image of Dean Winchester with the caption: “After four months of striking the WGA has a reached a tentative agreement & finalizing the contract. If all goes well writers will get to return to work with better pay and protections. They did it. Go unions”]

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[michellesanches]

Mastering the Art of Successful Negotiation: Strategies and Tactics

Negotiation is a critical skill that plays a pivotal role in both our personal and professional lives. Whether you’re discussing a salary increase, sealing a business deal or simply haggling over the price of a car, the ability to negotiate effectively can make a substantial difference in the outcome. In this article, I’ll summarise the essential principles and strategies that can help you…

[happyceostrategies]

Inside the mind of the 4 types of negotiators

Negotiation is a complex process that involves understanding not only the needs and goals of all parties involved but also the psychology behind their behavior.

The Art of negotiation: Understanding the 4 types of negotiators Negotiation is a complex process that involves understanding not only the needs and goals of all parties involved but also the psychology behind their behavior. Understanding these different types of negotiators and their behaviors can help in achieving successful negotiations. In this context, there are 4 types of negotiators:…

[ominouspuff]

Kote’s House

Kote’s first house is a pathetic thing, and he is incurably proud of it. The twi’lek he purchased it from very evidently could not make up his mind what to do with a man that grinned while he haggled, but it was the first time Kote had haggled over a purchase of his very own. He had thoroughly enjoyed it.

The house is built for one being, and a compact being at that, but Kote doesn’t have much. Moving in is quick, and most of his efforts during the next few days after go into attempting ambitious repairs for things he doesn’t know the first thing about. 

His plumbing is an issue, he knows. Something is getting blocked up. Somehow while trying to fix the kitchen tumbler, his fresher spout explodes.

He hadn’t kept his new house a secret from anyone by any means, but it is still surprising when Fox barges in through his jamming front door. He finds Kote on the floor in his cramped kitchen while the fresher rains water in the adjacent room, laughing so hard and so crippled with delight that he can’t get up.

He tries to explain how wonderful it is —

“I-I have to fix my plumbing on my own, vod—”

—but judging by Fox’s single raised eyebrow he knows it doesn’t translate.

Fox, it turns out, is moving into the neighborhood. Kote doesn’t ask about the house Fox already has — the house he has visited, which is very nice and fancy — or point out that Fox’s contract there cannot possibly be up, which begs the question of why he’s here in Kote’s neighborhood — except that Kote already knows the answer to that question. So he doesn’t ask.

Fox doesn’t show him any grace or forbearance, though.

“Don’t even know how to fix a damn pipe, front lining show-off—” His brother snarls, but it is muffled; his top half had to go down beneath the floor they’d pried up to get at the plumbing issue.

“So that’s what they had you doing all these years.” Kote says, because he really is in a criminally good mood. He barely ducks the foot-long pipe Fox throws at his head, feeling giddy.

He makes dinner that night in thanks. Fox stays, ostensibly because now that he’s fixed the fresher he intends to use it, because his new house isn’t hooked up properly yet to all the supply lines and power grids. 

They choke on homemade tiingilar (vode-style; Kote can’t pretend at the real thing yet) so heavily spiced it’s got grit to it that sticks between the teeth. It’s disgusting, but Cody had bought fifteen different spices and while usually he likes to keep his approach to the unknown more cautious, more methodical, he couldn’t think of anything he wanted to do more than use them all at once for the first time. 

Wolffe joins them not long after; brings a few others along by recommending the apartment he picks out, so that soon most of the complex is taken up by vode, Kote hears, but he doesn’t visit yet. Everyone’s too busy coming over to his house, it seems; filling up his kitchen and asking why he hasn’t fixed the trash disposal yet, why he doesn’t have a couch, doesn’t he know they’re all the rage among civilized folk?

Kote fixes the trash disposal with Rex, who is better at it than he is but says it’s only due to Skywalker’s influence on managing all things mechanical. 

“How is Skywalker?” Kote asks, and gets more than he bargained for over the next hour. At first he’s a bit off-put, because he’s trying to get dinner sorted again and he’s not been very fond of Skywalker at the best of times, but Rex is snorting out a story and laughing and it’s contagious, so Kote just resigns himself and settles in to enjoy.

Skywalker has little ones, now. Obi-Wan is the only one that can get them to sleep. Ahsoka is distressed; she knows better, but every instinct in her is apparently in agony over the little ones’ inability to eat meat yet. She obsesses over nutrients in their diet — which, given what tiny natborn humans primarily ingest in the early stages, makes for some slightly awkward conversations.

Rex helps with dinner afterward, and they take turns being incredulous over natborn baby facts, shoving around one another in the tiny, uncomfortable kitchen.

“What’s your next project?” Rex asks at one point, glancing sidelong with a cheeky look, and Kote levels his vegetable knife at him (he’s got a vegetable knife. Specifically for vegetables. It’s a very new concept). 

“I make everyone’s dinner on Tuangsdays.” He says. “I’m productive.”

Rex’s sharp-toothed grin turns thoughtful. “Yeah” He says. “Everyone loves coming here, you know. You could be the new 79’s.”

Kote knows. He plans and plots, and puts more work into researching recipes than he’s put into any research whatsoever in months. It feels a bit like coming out of a shore leave; his thoughts quicken and his excitement grows. He hunts down a market. He brings a bag. He shops, bargains, and returns victorious.

He sends out a few comms., and can’t help but shake his head and grin at how different the responses are. 

What a marvelous idea, Cody. His general — ex-general — says.

Yus pls, Ahsoka sends back, with some sort of strange tooka vidclip that dances with wiggly gyrations Kote can only assume indicate excitement.

Where is your house, Anakin says, blunt and to the point, and Kote can appreciate that. 

He sends the address. He cooks all day. The sun sets, and Fox and Wolffe arrive, already bickering, Rex trailing behind with a long-suffering look sent to Kote, begging commiseration.

“Ugh, don’t you ever stop smiling, now?” He gripes when Kote just grins at him. 

“Nope,” Kote says, unrepentantly.

He leaves the soup on the stove, simmering, and takes his cup of caf to the window. He leans on it, breathing in cool air, and just listens — listens to the squabbling as Wolffe gets on Fox’s case for not washing Kote’s dishes correctly the last time they visited. Hears the soft thumps of Rex sneaking into the cramped room Kote has set aside for plants and the sole pet he has; a pastel goullian, fins swaying ever so gently, permanent scowl in place. Thinks he catches, distantly, the sound of his remaining three guests (Padme couldn’t attend, and had made him feel very awkward by how thoughtfully she apologized for it) plodding up the hill. 

“Cody!” Ahsoka cries, coming into view and waving. 

Kote’s cheeks have stopped aching from all the smiling he’s gotten used to, so it’s easy to let another through.

[104degrees]

yeah, um... hey, i was just thinking, do you... remember? when you asked me when my dad was gonna die? uh-huh. you really couldn’t push this a week, couldn’t you, you just couldn’t like--there was no part of you that could just be like, “hey let’s reschedule and move this cause, y’know, their dad just died and y’know.” i mean my sister’s kinda--she’s fucked up about it, and my brother’s a mess, and i’m fucking, i’m GONE i’m like i’m on the fucking--i’m dead, it’s over for me, it’s okay, it’s fine. but you just drag us out here, you inhuman fucking dogman, you... crazy. you- you fucking killed him, too. you’re the one who did it. you just--and, you did. you drained the life out of him. you dragged this thing out for six! fucking months and then you bring us out here now you couldn’t wait like, a few days, you actually couldn’t do that for us... no idea, huh? ...god! ...yeah, shut the fuck up, man, we’re not selling to you. okay? we’re not doing that. we are gonna grind you down, man, we are sand in the gears every email’s gonna take like six months, we’re all gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars, and in the end, you’re gonna get fucking bored and move on it’s not... happening! okay? yeah. yeah, i fucking hate you.

[simpfornegan]

i am a child of divorce.

[amiracleilluminated]

[existentiol]

something that pisses me off in RA is that Flanagan will occasionally hype up Pauline as this super important and prominent figure in Will’s life, even treat her as a proxy for the mother he never knew, and yet will just refuse to show it beyond the like. two or three (personal) conversations that they have in canon. I get that he was attempting to make her an important person in Will’s life but why not do that by actually making her an important person in Will’s life

[lightfaithed]

happy birthday to the jedi w a nice beard and terrible dad jokes ♡ love, wife.

FKEJFJKG I love this SO MUCH thank you bab!!! <33

[stewyhosseini-bf]

thinking about 2x10 in terms of the tomshiv and kenstewy parallels and feeling slightly insane. there's something there with both of those relationships, about sacrificing the relationship in the name of saving the other person. how shiv seemingly throws tom under the bus in the breakfast scene ('to save you I can't be seen to be acting in self-interest') - but she does look out for him in the end, and chooses to save him even above her own brother. but the damage is done, and the way their relationship develops afterwards is very much affected by this moment. and then stewy denying the deal, at least in part because it includes ken losing his board seat (this is only hinted at in the scene but you can definitely tell there's some nonverbal communication happening between them when logan mentions the board seat and Arian later confirmed in an interview that this was how he played the scene. plus, they do want the deal. they seem eager for it at the shareholder's meeting, which is only like two weeks later? and the fact that stewy even agrees to meet them and seems optimistic about logan's proposal to get the deal done and eat some octopi, AND the deal being objectively pretty good for them makes it seem likely that the board seat thing is why he ultimately says no right away without even consulting the Sandys, as Logan points out) thinking he's looking out for him but obviously not knowing that he's actually dooming him, as a deal would've been the last chance at saving Ken from being the sacrifice.

[milkmynk]

I love, love, love Maomao as an FL so much. The girl's got goals and dreams, and being in love doesn't even feature within the top 100 of 'em

[happyceostrategies]

How to navigate cultural differences and negotiate effectively with a Gentlemen’s agreement and a Letter of Intent.

The role of culture. How to use oral and written communication skills to seal a deal Oral and written communication have often been seen as opposing modes of expression, with the former being associated with lower status and the latter with higher prestige. However, this dichotomy overlooks the complexity and diversity of both forms of communication and their social functions. Humans are…

[red-flagging]

it's not real until roscoelovescoco posts a picture of roscoe in a ferrari kit

[desperatepleasures]

forget anything I've said before the funniest bit in tactics is when raikou is like "I know you visit your mother's grave twice a month, I can bring her back to life if you'll cancel haruka's name contract" and kantarou is like "joke's on you I only visit her grave to make sure that bitch has stayed dead"

[graveltrip]

esteban getting linked to haas...