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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0344
A deadline attached to an offer rarely reflects an external constraint. It measures whether you have somewhere else to go, and it does so cheaply.
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A deadline is cheap to impose and expensive to justify. The reaction it produces is what it was for.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why an expiring offer is a test of your alternatives
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Entry #0342
A position is a single point. The interests behind it are many, and only one of these can be discovered by asking, because arguing addresses the point instead.
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Arguments contest a position. Questions decompose it, and only the components can be traded.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why questions extract more than arguments
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Entry #0339
A threat changes behaviour only if the other side believes you would carry it out. Credibility comes from your position, not from the firmness of your voice.
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A threat is priced by the listener’s estimate of your alternatives, not by your confidence in delivering it.
Reveal the hidden insight of The reason a walk-away must be credible to work
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Entry #0338
Fairness has several defensible standards that give different answers. Naming one as fair asserts a choice among them while sounding like an observation.
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Fair is not an observation about an outcome. It is an assertion that one standard among several should govern.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why the word fair is a claim, not a description
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Negotiation Frames
Entry #0350
Where a negotiation happens assigns status before anybody speaks. Whose building, whose chair and whose ceiling are all part of the opening position.
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#0350
The venue assigns host and guest before the agenda starts. It is the one term settled administratively rather than negotiated.
Reveal the hidden insight of Why the room changes the deal
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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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#0349
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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#0347
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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