We’ve all heard the phrase “What goes around comes around.” If you treat someone badly, the thought is, they will turn and – eventually – treat you badly too. Crucially, this presumes that you will have some contact and relationship with them in the future. This...
I am not a huge fan of Disneyland and Disneyworld. My wife and kids love them, but I hate long lines and just don’t love rollercoasters and its other rides (largely because I don’t feel great after and it takes me a while to recover). But I do admire how Disney runs...
Paul Eckstein, one of the best litigators I know, told me years ago that his firm would sometimes assign a separate lawyer to try to negotiate and settle a big case in addition to its trial counsel. They would have a “Department of War and a Department of Peace,” he...
I hope you enjoy my interview with Fox Business News on Monday. Here is the LINK. * Marty Latz is the founder of Latz Negotiation, a national negotiation training and consulting company that helps individuals and organizations achieve better results with best...
I hope you enjoy this video interview with this Ukrainian newspaper – The Kyiv Independent – on the Russia-Ukraine negotiations. Here is the LINK. And it’s in English! * Marty Latz is the founder of Latz Negotiation, a national negotiation training...
“You don’t have the cards right now,” U.S. President Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the now infamous Oval Office Scolding that further unraveled the U.S.-Ukraine relationship. That meeting, which both parties had presumably intended to be a...
Vito Corleone in The Godfather famously made an “offer he can’t refuse” when “asking” for a movie part for his godson from a film producer. It worked. Why? The film producer’s alternative, or Plan B, to refusing: death. That’s powerful leverage! A negotiation threat...
President Ronald Reagan in 1981 threatened 12,000 striking air-traffic controllers with the loss of their jobs if they did not report back to work “within 48 hours” of his statement. 11,359 did not comply. He fired them. According to former Northwestern Professors...
I was recently interviewed on France’s public television station concerning the Israeli-Hamas hostage negotiation deal. I was asked who should get credit for negotiating an agreement that in Phase One is intended to bring a ceasefire, the return of 33 Israeli...
