Jeff Yacup
1. Define the goal
2. List the major issues related to achieving the goal
3. Define their relative importance of each issue, and define the bargaining mix.
4. Define the interests (why do you want these things?)
5. Define the BATNA (best alternatives to negotiated agreement)
6. Define your limits, including a resistance point
7. Describe your understanding of the other party’s goals, issues, and resistance points.
8. Set your targets and opening point.
9. Assess the social context
10. Outline how you will present the issues; what to say and how to say it.
"The view of things in which one's group is the center of everything , and others are scaled and rated with reference to it. Each group nourishes its own price and vanity, boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders." - William Graham Sumner
Direct, informal, non-verbal, public, low-context, high energy, disagreement welcome
Networking important, emotional reactions, lack of hierarchy, public disclosure
Individualistic, competitive, achievement oriented