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I wonder about the longest stretch of silence that has passed in a negotiation because both parties read the same negotiating self-help books and attempted to a
by ahelwer 4y ago
I wonder about the longest stretch of silence that has passed in a negotiation because both parties read the same negotiating self-help books and attempted to apply them on one another.
- the_sleaze9 4y agoWere they making direct eye contact, menacing faces of stone each daring the others to make the first move? Were their jaws and brows completely relaxed staring dreamily off into the ether? Were they all self-consciously posing in various confidence-signalling power-poses, strewn about the conference table? I would love to have been a fly on the wall there.
- 1123581321 4y agoI’ve seen a two-party meeting end with a long silence. It felt like leaving a funeral service.
- vdqtp3 4y agoIf you saw it, doesn't that mean it was at least three party?
- 1123581321 4y agoI was part of the group that got up and left (not my ideal outcome, but I wasn't the boss.)
- snowwrestler 4y agoThey’re still there, two desiccated corpses silently eyeing each other. At least neither lost the negotiation!