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Apr 1, 20172 min read
DO YOU REALLY MEAN IT?
Some years ago, Barbra Streisand granted a one-hour interview with Larry King on CNN, just after her highly successful concert tour on...
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Mar 2, 20172 min read
IDEAS IN MOTION
Every so often, we like to turn the spotlight of this blog on our esteemed RGI grantees. This month I would like to introduce the very...
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Feb 2, 20172 min read
THE ART OF THE (WIN-WIN) DEAL
I have of course been observing the first days of Trump’s America with interest and trepidation, but also with the practiced eye of the...
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Jan 1, 20172 min read
PLAYING WITH ICEBERGS
To round out the year, please allow a few musings on the connections between negotiation and one of my other passions, improvisational...
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Dec 1, 20163 min read
TO CHOOSE OR TO DECIDE
Dear Readers: Today I am happy to present a guest blogger, my esteemed colleague and friend Ulrich Egger, founder of Egger Philips and...
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Nov 1, 20162 min read
NOTICE MORE AND EXPAND THE POSSIBLE
I have for some time been interested in the relationship between negotiation and meditation/mindfulness, an interest spurred not only on...
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Oct 1, 20162 min read
COME TO THE FEAST
For this month’s blog, I brainstormed with a number of esteemed friends and colleagues for inspiration in my search for a new moniker for...
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Sep 1, 20162 min read
GAMES AND PLAY
This month Germany marks the first anniversary of Angela Merkel’s surprisingly bold decision to open the borders to refugees, especially...
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Aug 1, 20162 min read
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY …
This month, let me take the occasion of the passing of Howard Raiffa to muse a bit about game theory. He was an absolute leader in the...
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Jul 1, 20162 min read
GAMING IS ITS OWN REWARD
As this year’s Games for Change Festival draws to an end this month in New York, I am struck by how far the movement has come. While this...
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Jun 1, 20162 min read
WHIMSICALITY
This month I wanted to reflect a bit on an aspect of negotiation that has always interested me: the lighter side. What effect does humor...
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May 1, 20162 min read
THOUGHTS FROM TBILISI
This month I had the privilege of accepting an invitation to spend a week in Georgia (the country, not the American state) teaching two...
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Mar 1, 20162 min read
PEACE THROUGH GAMING
As some of you know, Rational Games, Inc. is not only a negotiation training and consulting company, but a social business as well. Every...
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Feb 16, 20161 min read
Release of our Negotiation App
Greetings to you from Cambridge, Mass. As a valued friend of Rational Games, I wanted you to be one of the first to know that we have...
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Feb 16, 20162 min read
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...
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Feb 1, 20162 min read
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...
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Jan 1, 20161 min read
LESSONS FROM SUN TSE
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...
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Dec 1, 20152 min read
STANDOFF AT THE UN
Watching the conversation between Presidents Obama and Putin at the UN yesterday through the lens of the fairly experienced negotiation...
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