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The 3 Most Common Negotiation Mistakes
You don’t let “moments” happen You negotiate against yourself You don’t play “the short game” #1 – You don’t let “moments” happen
4 Hostage Negotiation Steps for “Hacking” Confrontation
Negotiation impasses and negotiation confrontations are very similar. In both instances, you need to create “space” to expand the negotiation to see...
4 Hostage Negotiation Skills to Help You Renegotiate Your Cable Bill
I received this from Ryan, one of the MBA students in the negotiation course we teach at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business (MSB)....
An FBI Hostage Negotiator Teaches You the “F” Word in Negotiations
Bang. That’s it. When the “F” bomb – “fair” – gets thrown in a negotiation things have just gotten emotional. “Wait...haven’t they always been...
Are Women Naturally Better Negotiators Than Men? – Part II
“I always thought women made better negotiators than men.” This was Tom Strentz’s response when I shared with him my experience teaching my class in...
Are Women Naturally Better Negotiators Than Men?
I teach a negotiation course at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business in the M.B.A. program. If you’re in my course then you’re...
The Market Price (Part 2 of 2)
We left off last month at the FBI’s Critical Incident Negotiation Team (CINT) In-Service training and learning the sobering truth that kidnapping is...
The Market Price (Part 1 of 2)
If I were to ask, “What is the difference between hostage negotiation and business negotiation?” – what would you say? How would you answer? I know...
What do Great Rainmakers Have in Common With Great Hostage Negotiators?
Intuition. Yet, is intuition something magical, that you’re born with? Can you grow it? Is it nature or nurture?
An FBI Hostage Negotiator Teaches You – The “Chris” Price
As a hostage negotiator, I know that getting a hostage taker to use the hostage’s name humanizes the hostage and makes it less likely they will come...