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🚨 Using Outrage as a Negotiation Tactic – A Smart Move or a Costly Mistake? 🚨

In negotiations, offence can be wielded as a weapon—provoking anger or indignation to push an opponent into a corner. From Napoleon's diplomatic barbs to Trump's confrontational style, history is full of figures who have used calculated outrage to gain leverage. But does it really work?

#NegotiationTactics #BusinessStrategy #EmotionalIntelligence #ConflictResolution

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Dr Robert N. Winter · Using Outrage as a Negotiation Tactic
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TL;DR: if you wanna be a better person practice to wait a second every time you feel angry/scared/"other strong emotion" before you act. Just one second! Then think "what do I wanna do now?" and you will be able to think of better options. Better than the option you would have chosen if you didn't wait that second.

BOOM! Congrats, you're a better person than a second ago.

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Usually it's some form of worthiness wound that pushes us to self-defense. Something we learned in our pasts that still lingers and makes us think "I am unworthy/unlovable/broken". We don't *want* to believe it but what if they're right?

When we are hit by words that feed into that belief, that insecurity, then we must push that possibility away. We are not like that! We cannot be!

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Baby queers, questioning people, and anyone else, we got you.

This sucks: it's terrifying and unnecessary suffering. This was avoidable, but for powerful people making their selfish fear into our problem.

It's not your fault, never was, and never will be. Your feelings matter, your experiences matter, and even unmet, your needs matter.

You might even say, perhaps -- bizarrely?! -- that b/Black and b/Brown (wait, does that one get the double case slash or) peoples' lives matter.

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Much like b/Black people, disabled people, queer people, and other groups pushed out of everyday life all keep saying in various words and intensities over the years:
shit has hit the fan, will continue to hit the fan, and yes, this is going to be tedious and deadly to fix.

But we do, in fact, need to turn off the fan, remove the faeces, sterilise all surfaces and objects in the room, and LEARN what went wrong.

The time will pass either way. We need to accept our current situation to plan how to fix it.

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"I’m an Israeli, but I believe inflicting more harm on Gaza will not bring a solution"
As a member of Jewish-Arab peace coalition Standing Together, Alon-Lee Green says there is an alternative to the cycle of violence
Israel’s citizens – Jewish and Arab-Palestinian – have all been devastated by this terrifying situation, which is still unfolding.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · I’m an Israeli, but I believe inflicting more harm on Gaza will not bring a solutionBy Guardian staff reporter
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On a similar vein ..an excellent #TedTalk here from #OliviaLazard who has previously worked in #ConflictResolution and now researching #Geopolitics and #ClimateChange especially the issues around minerals and #GreenEnergy ..and the fact that countries with most #Mineral resources are often politically unstable or at most risk from effects of #ClimateChange en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_an

en.m.wikipedia.orgOil and mining industry of Niger - Wikipedia