tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200535642066419692.post5042487845646129492..comments2023-09-11T07:17:05.385-07:00Comments on The Consensus Building Approach: Winning at Win-Win Negotiation!Lawrence Susskindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11017587745669060378noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200535642066419692.post-1737174757819874422011-08-08T23:52:28.341-07:002011-08-08T23:52:28.341-07:00I enjoyed this article. It seems important to hav...I enjoyed this article. It seems important to have a dynamic leader or negotiator to help steer the party or parties to the trading zone. David Gergen wrote excellent piece yesterday on Churchill. In it he said, "We must not let our arguments over the past dominate the present, Churchill said, or we will lose the future. There in the war cabinet room, one sees chairs reserved for Labor as well as Conservative ministers -- coming together, they could stop Hitler. Isn't that a lesson for us today, too?"<br /><br />What seems to be present today is more polarity, more win at any cost just to be right. It was also Ben Franklin that said something to the effect that one should never give up their principals but should give up the urge to always be right. <br /><br />As I am still reflecting on the current debt crisis, I clearly see it as a failure of leadership to at least get into the trading zone to produce "what ifs." The current populist tone seems uneducated and so lacking in the art of negotiating that it is frightening. To hold our economy hostage in order for one side or the other to claim victory seems inept at best. I am not necessarily disappointed at the newly elected as I am the leaders that should be leading us to the negotiating table. I am also disappointed in an electorate that put them in office.<br />How do our leaders learn these concepts you so eloquently explain so as not to lead us further into peril?Todd Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15146720551504831148noreply@blogger.com