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.
Were 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.
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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 apply them on one another.
They’re still there, two desiccated corpses silently eyeing each other. At least neither lost the negotiation!
I’ve seen a two-party meeting end with a long silence. It felt like leaving a funeral service.
If you saw it, doesn't that mean it was at least three party?
I was part of the group that got up and left (not my ideal outcome, but I wasn't the boss.)
Were 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.