The Olympics of negotiations offer lessons for corporate life
An Irish businessman in Singapore: ‘You’ll get a year in jail if you are in a drunken brawl, so people don’t step out of line’
Nonetheless, these two-week tussles over financial, legal, trade, farming, health and scientific issues, to name just a few agenda items, make Cops the Olympics of negotiations. And as Getting to Yes says, negotiation is a fact of life, whether you are trying to buy a house, close a business deal or squeeze a pay rise from your boss.
Sure enough, the other negotiator immediately opposed it and unwittingly delivered the desired result. The testy 2011 Cop in Durban, South Africa, eventually agreed a deal paving the way for the 2015 Paris Agreement after what has gone down in climate talks lore as “the huddle that made history”. Billionaire financier Carl Icahn is a famous night owl known for holding negotiations long past most people’s bedtimes, giving him an edge over exhausted opponents.
After the disappointing Copenhagen Cop of 2009, which ended in recriminations after failing to produce a strong deal, Mexico’s beachside city of Cancún was chosen for the 2010 meeting that had to revive the process.
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