Our monthly blog
Each month, we muse about some aspect of negotiation, gamification or philanthropy and its effect on our work and world. Comments welcome!
If you want to take part in the discussion, you are kindly invited to join our group 'Gamification and Negotiation' on LinkedIn.
INGRATITUDE AT HOME: The Calamity that is Brexit
Many of us are riveted to the television to watch the live broadcasts of the increasingly ugly debate in the British Parliament on Brexit, with multiple humiliations of Mrs. May as vote after vote goes against her and the March 29. deadline
GAMES FOR CHILDREN: Partners in Philanthropy
This month Rational Games is pleased to announce the launch of its new strategic partnership with Children of Peace.
“FIGHTING” FOR PEACE: On Judo, Negotiation and Philanthropy
By Wayne Lifshitz, Rational Games Board Member, USA Judo Kata National Team Member
JUMBO COMES TO PHOENIX: Negotiating Multilaterally, Consciously and Ethically
I want to take the occasion of the start of the New Year to introduce our latest game simulation, a seven-party multilateral negotiation engagement called Jumbo.
NEGOTIATING GENEROUSLY: Thoughts on the Caravan Crisis
I hope my readers will forgive me if my final blog of 2018 is a bit polemic. Sometimes, just like in negotiation, passion wins out over prudence and I have to speak out for what I feel strongly about.
THE WELL-PLAYED GAME: Remembering Bernie de Koven
“On the one hand we have the playing mind—innovative, magical, boundless. On the other is the gaming mind—concentrated, determined, intelligent. And on the hand that holds them both together we have the notion of playing well.”
DIRTY TRICKS AMERICAN STYLE: Renegotiating NAFTA
As someone who had a (minor) role in negotiating the original NAFTA in the early 1990s, I am of course taking a keen interest in the current efforts to renegotiate this agreement and gain better terms for the United States. So far I am not
NO EXIT POSSIBLE: Negotiating with Monopoly Suppliers
Facing the challenge of negotiating with single-source supplieres.
THE FRESHBIZ GAME Imagining entrepreneurship playfully
I learned alot about the FreshBiz serious Game while talking to Ronen Gafni at the European Conscious Capitalism Summit in Barcelona.
NEGOTIATION IN THE COLD Lessons from the Ski Slopes
This winter, I was part of a guided ski tour in the snow-covered high alpine mountains in France. In retrospect, this tour made me think about negotiations from a different perspective.