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!
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PEACE THROUGH GAMING The CEDARIA Project
As some of you know, Rational Games, Inc. is not only a negotiation training and consulting company, but a social business as well.
THOUGHTS ON EMPATHY
As the New Year starts and I am enjoying Roman Kzarnik’s excellent new book on Empathy: How to Get it and Why it Matters, I am reminded again of the central place that this skill has in negotiation.
Release of our Negotiation App
As a valued friend of Rational Games, I wanted you to be one of the first to know that we have just released a new and improved 2.0 version of our “Bidding for Babelsberg” Negotiation App.
CHECKING IN FROM PARIS
Greetings to all from Paris, site of what is this week perhaps the most important negotiation in many years. The future of the planet depends on it, which is a statement I do not make lightly.
LESSONS FROM SUN TSE Chinese Negotiation Tactics
The occasion of my annual teaching gig in Beijing this week gives me an occasion to reflect again on Sun Tse’s famous Rules of War and their alternative expression in the 36 "Chinese Negotiation Stratagems."
STANDOFF AT THE UN Challenges for Win-Win
Watching the conversation between Presidents Obama and Putin at the UN yesterday through the lens of the fairly experienced negotiation coach and trainer, I couldn’t help but be struck by the vivid demonstration of the challenges to Win-Win