“If your brother sins [against you], go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that
‘every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three
witnesses.’" Matthew 18:15,16
I consider this high-level negotiation advice.
The video below shows fairly typical "modern" negotiation tactics
Three minute run-time
To summarize for those who don't want to waste three minutes of their lives:
She went on a date with a man. It was an awesome date and he is a wonderful man...and she is going to dump him in six more hours if he doesn't text back and simp about how awesome she is. That is, she expects him to read her mind because she never told him that was important to her.
So rather than tell HIM what she needs (first line of the Scripture quoted), she goes on Tic-Tox or X or YouTube and preens about what a special-and-refined princess she is and what a clod the "wonderful man" is.
It is binary
You can either have a successful and profitable negotiation or stroke your ego and self-aggrandize.
It is fine to want both. But which is really important? If a successful and profitable conclusion is the most important thing, why would you handicap yourself by poisoning the negotiations?
The budget debates illustrates this because the politicians are grandstanding for the voters back home rather than hammer out an effective budget.
I wonder if that guy realizes the size of the bullet he just dodged.
ReplyDeleteAMEN, he dodged a major attention "queen". (nicest way I could say this BTW).
ReplyDeleteGrandstanding in the era of political violence (and weekly church attacks) is dangerous, and frankly with all the OTHER economic and warlike behaviors in our government's behaviors we are dancing on thin ice.