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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0349
Price is the one issue both sides can state without exposing anything. It becomes the language in which every other disagreement is conducted.
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Price is the only issue that can be argued without exposing anything. That is why other disagreements arrive translated into it.
Reveal the hidden insight of The reason a negotiation about price is rarely about price
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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0348
A preference can be argued with; a constraint cannot. Showing that you are unable to move is stronger than insisting you are unwilling.
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#0348
Disclosing what you want is a loss. Disclosing what you cannot do removes the other side’s move, provided the limit is visible and credible.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why revealing a constraint can strengthen a position
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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0347
A concession is valued against what was expected, not against what it cost. Unrequested gives are measured from a baseline of nothing.
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A concession is priced by the receiver against expectation, not by the giver against cost. Unrequested gives are measured from zero.
Reveal the hidden insight of The reason a small unexpected concession buys goodwill cheaply
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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0346
The lowest bid is the one that most likely misjudged the work. Buyers who have been burned learn to read it as a warning rather than an offer.
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#0346
A competitive tender selects the bidder who most underestimated the work. The lowest number is evidence about the bidder, not about the price.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why the second-lowest bid often wins a tender
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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0345
A renewal is not priced from scratch. Last year’s terms become the reference, and any move from them requires a justification that they never did.
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#0345
Last year’s terms need no argument and any change does. The reference point is not a position in the negotiation; it is what the negotiation is measured from.
Reveal the hidden insight of The reason precedent outranks logic in a renewal
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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0343
Warmth makes an ambitious request easier to make and harder to refuse flatly. The rapport is genuine and it is also working on the number.
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#0343
Warmth does not change the number. It removes the appetite for the counter-offer that would have moved it.
Reveal the hidden insight of The reason a friendly tone can raise the price
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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0341
The easy items were settled first, so what remains is not merely smaller. It is the residue of everything that could not be traded.
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#0341
What is left at the end is not a small sample of the whole. It is everything that resisted being traded, arriving with nothing left to trade.
Reveal the hidden insight of The reason the last five per cent takes half the time
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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0340
A third party alters what each side can say without losing face. The set of admissible statements changes, and agreements live in that set.
The hidden part
#0340
A mediator does not add facts. They create a room where a position can be revealed without becoming a concession.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why a mediator changes outcomes without changing facts
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Narrative Structure
Entry #0550
The two audiences need different things justified. One needs the decision explained, the other needs the outcome legitimated.
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#0550
The internal story must make the next task doable. The external one must satisfy expectations of people who will never see the work.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why the story a company tells internally differs from the external one
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Narrative Structure
Entry #0549
The commitment to keep watching is made before any argument is presented, and it is made from material chosen to be committed to.
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#0549
The opening competes against leaving, not against rival arguments. Whoever left is not in the sample that praises the evidence.
Reveal the hidden insight of The reason a documentary’s first minute decides the audience
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Narrative Structure
Entry #0548
A case study has a protagonist, an obstacle and a resolution. That is a persuasive form, and it is not the form evidence takes.
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#0548
Narrative form converts checkable claims into a single experience. The verified parts remain verified; the causal claim between them is never stated.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why a case study is structured like fiction
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Narrative Structure
Entry #0547
An unfamiliar event has to be told in a familiar shape to be told quickly. The shape supplies stages that the event has not yet reached.
The hidden part
#0547
The script tells everyone which stage comes next, including the accused. A shared expectation about the next move helps produce it.
Reveal the hidden insight of The reason a scandal follows a script
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