Posts Tagged ‘negotiation’

Method_2of5: Contract (negotiation)

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

The five articles in this series have a single purpose: share small outlines of the approach I used in various consulting and service management activities.

Method_1of5: Crisis (resolution)

Monday, October 4th, 2010

The five articles in this series have a single purpose: share small outlines of the approach I used in various consulting and service management activities.

GMN2009: Playing

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Moving from designing the game to using the game implies adding a completely different set of skills.

You will need to learn how to manage the evolution of the dynamics between the players- be it a simple game, a real negotiation, the management of a major organizational change, a merger, or a political campaign.

Playing games implies being able to constantly feed back into your game the results of what you are doing.

From designing the game, we will move to evolution- something that is not necessarily following your strategy- but that you have to cope with.

This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.

GMN2009: Games

Monday, May 18th, 2009

You want your model to work in reality, and therefore you have to assume that others have their own models.

It is a game. Like playing chess. Or the usual “prisoner’s dilemma”.

From models, we will move to the interaction between models- and between different decision paths within a model.

A down-to-earth introduction to the game theory.

This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.

GMN2009: Risk

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

If you identify the “risks”, what could affect the conditions that you assumed that could affect your execution of the plan, then you will end up monitoring that:

  • you are using the resources identified if, when, how planned
  • the risks you already decided to keep under control
  • whatever new happens around you that could affect your plan
  • last but not least: that the activity you planned for still makes sense

It is not just the journey that you have to keep in check; it is also the destination.

This post is part of a series, first published in May 2009.

Crisis & conflict management

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

along my career, as well as in other activities before, I always enjoyed negotiating.

often, I have been called in by partners after they had already built a contract-based relationship: that wasn’t working as planned

this post is long and without a chapter-by-chapter division: because it is a short summary of what I learned to do, and what to avoid