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.
TEACHING TEAMWORK PLAYFULLY ONLINE: Introducing Cakes4Kids
This month, Rational Games would like to showcase our good friends and partners Larissa Menocci and Adam Ambrozy of MakeTeamwork, a boutique training and consulting company focusing on intercultural teamwork
THE POWER OF POETRY: Introducing Slam Out Loud in India
Rational Games is proud to take the occasion of this month’s blog to introduce our latest grantee: Slam Out Loud (SOL) of Delhi, India - specifically their Project Arts for All.
NEGOTIATING DIGITALLY: Easing Into the „New Normal“
Most trainers and coaches, not only for negotiation, have spent most of the last year online, and the most successful of them have learned to create engaging and interactive content especially using the new media of ZOOM and its competitors
A NEW BEGINNING? Quieting the Guns of Red and Blue
As 2021 begins, many of the eyes of the world are focused on Washington and yet another Presidential Inauguration.
PATHWAYS TO A SHARED SOCIETY: Teaching Creative, Interest-Based Negotiation in Israel
Rational Games would like to take the occasion of the last blog of 2020 to introduce our newest grantee, PATHWAYS Institute for Negotiation Education
WICKED PROBLEMS: The Limits of Win-Win Negotiation?
My good friend Bryan Lee at Privatus Consulting recently introduced me to the world of “Wicked Problems”, a fascinating discipline in the public policy realm with applications in economics, politics, sociology, and privacy.
NEGOTIATING MINDFULLY: Mindfulness As A Tool For Leaders and Negotiators
In a business culture permeated by buzzwords, it is no longer even possible to ignore the practice of mindfulness, a movement that’s been spreading like wildfire.
A SEPARATE PEACE: The Splashy Art of the Deal
This month Mark Young takes a nuanced look at the Israel-UAE peace agreement, keeping an eye on the long-term consequences.
WOMEN (still) DON’T ASK AND MEN (still) DON’T LISTEN? On Gender in Negotiation in times of Corona
Among its many other consequences, the Corona lockdown has also laid bare the continuing gender inequity in most Western societies.
Seeing is Believing: Framing Lessons from the Corona Crisis
Context is everything. In the negotiation world, we call it framing.