- Fair Standards
- Examples
- market value
- precedent
- scientific judgment
- professional standards
- efficiency
- costs
- what would a court decided
- moral standards
- equal treatment
- tradition
- reciprocity
- Fair procedures
- One cuts
- taking turns
- drawing lots
- flipping a coin
- letting somone elese decided - such as a mediator
- Fame each issue as a joint search for objective criteria
- author uses the example of purchasing a house
- What is your theory?
- Agree first on principles
- What standards will apply
- Reasons and be open to reason as to which standards are most appropriate and how they should be applied.
- Never yield to pressure, only to principle
- Pressure can take many forms
- bribe, threat, manipulation, an appeal to trust, or simple refusal to budge
- invite the party to state their reasons, suggest objective criteria you think should apply
- Getting around - It's company policy
Chapter 6
What if they are more powerful
- protect yourself
- make the most of your assets
- Will prevent you from resisting pressure and temptation
- however using a bottom line involves a high cost
- limits you from you may have learned during a negotiation
- A bottom line inhibits imagination
- Know your BATNA
- the insecurity of an unknown BATNA
- formulate a trip wire
- another test
- before accepting any agreement, reexamine your position with your trip wire
- If using a mediator, it gives the mediator room to maneuver.