To Negotiate Better, Start with Yourself
[]
HBR IdeaCast
If there are two kinds of negotiations, the external negotiations with people, other organizations – like a merger negotiation and the internal negotiations with people on your own team, on your own side, within your own organization, which personally do you find more problematic?” And so I would say that one really important part of preparation of time on the balcony and preparing for that merger is to make sure that you have those internal talks, which in fact are internal negotiations: making sure you have alignment, making sure that people speak up now and raise your differences rather than that come up later on in the midst of the merger negotiations or in the midst of the merger and end up unraveling things in ways that you hadn’t imagined.