Dr. Robin L. Pinkley, Professor, Management and Organizations, Cox School of Business at SMU
Whether professional negotiator or novice, you negotiate when you rise in the morning until you sleep at night, over everything from carpool duty with your spouse to managing relations with external vendors. Shifting organizational forms, unprecedented economic pressures, and the need to juggle many roles simultaneously suggest the need to negotiate effectively and efficiently in all aspects of your life. So the question isn’t whether you’ll negotiate today, but how well?