Negotiation Failures

In honor of my students turning in their final Negotiation journals today and in the spirit of my former dean who would post his first year law school grades just to remind us all that he was human, I wanted to share a recent negotiation failure.  (Just because we teach it, doesn’t mean we get everything we want all the time.) 

I generally try to remind students that (a) we don’t always realize that we should negotiate until it’s too late and that (b) sometimes we are going to lose anyway.  On the first point, I share with students the fact that I didn’t even negotiate my offer when I came here (although my current dean might argue that I have more than overcome that particular weakness!) 

On the second, and more amusing note, below is the picture of the negotiation I just lost with my kids:

Brady

 Thanks much to former student Dr Marty Greer who helped me find the perfect puppy once I had lost the negotiation!

4 thoughts on “Negotiation Failures”

  1. I suspect that in a short while, with the benefit of hindsight bias, you will think of this as a win, not a loss. And, I couldn’t agree more, definatetely the cutest picture ever on indisputably.

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