Communicating Across Time Horizons

There was a time in my life when I sold life insurance. Well, to be frank, I tried to sell life insurance. With little success.
And while I didn’t sell any insurance, I did learn a thing or two, and I’d like to explore one of them with you today - time horizons.
Some of the prospective […]

The Best Way to Prepare For a Negotiation

Negotiating is one of those skills we all have and use every day. Some are better than others but we all engage in negotiations all the time. Negotiating is not limited to your day job but comes useful in every situation you want something of somebody and includes when you’re talking to your boss, co-workers, […]

Best Practices in Negotiation - What Would Be Fair to You?

In several experiments “A” was given $100 and instructed to share it with “B” in any manner he wished.
Often, the $100 was split right down the middle. Sometimes, “A” elected to keep more than $50 for himself.
In those cases, when “B” was asked what he thought of the unequal distribution, repeatedly the word “unfair” came […]

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