If you have ever been in a dispute or in a conflict with someone (and who hasn't!), at some point, the "facts" of what allegedly happened are dissected. More often than not, there is disagreement about exactly what happened. It becomes a "he said, she said" argument in which credibility [Read More]
Recently, the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School posted a blog by Katie Shonk discussing an April 25, 2013 article appearing in the Wall Street Journal written by Zack Anchors (entitled, Mind Mapping Streamlines A Business Negotiation.). In the blog, Ms. Shonk recounts Mr. Anchors' story about a financial [Read More]
I am a firm believer in the adage that one cannot convince someone to change her mind unless and until she is provided with new or different information. Thus, during the course of mediation, I am unable to change a party's view of the settlement value of a matter without [Read More]
In its April 5, 2013 edition, The Economist had an interesting article in its Science and Technology section about how we judge time. Entitled "Yesterday Came Suddenly", it discusses a study to be published in Psychological Science indicating that we view the future as being closer than the past. Calling [Read More]
I came across a 2009 blog the other day written by Anthony K. Tjan for the Harvard Business Review. It contains 4 simple rules for effective negotiations; reading through them- I found them to be old friends; rules that I have discussed before in my blogs: 1. Be prepared. Mr. [Read More]
A friend of mine is in a business partnership. I will call her "Jane". Over the past few months, Jane has continuously expressed to me her frustration and dissatisfaction with her partners, as it seems that they do not care much for the business aspect of running a partnership. They [Read More]
The February 26, 2013 blog post of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School looked at what role gender plays in the "dictator game". In "The Dictator Game: Justifying Selfishness In Negotiation", the author reviews a recent study on selfishness in negotiation by Fei Song of York University and [Read More]
Once again, chimpanzees have been the subject of another study on "fairness". Researchers in Georgia claim they now have "...the best laboratory evidence yet that chimpanzees have a human-style sense of fairness." Those who have reviewed the study believe the study is flawed and opine that a sense of fairness [Read More]
