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Howard Raiffa


Helped found and was the first director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
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Howard Raiffa
Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.
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The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.
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The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.




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Ideas are incestuous.
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Each party tended to view its own chances in court as better than the other side viewed them.
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Game theory, however, deals only with the way in which ultrasmart, all knowing people should behave in competitive situations, and has little to say to Mr. X as he confronts the morass of his problem.
Howard Raiffa
The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.
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There is no shortage of disputes.
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" the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems."
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We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.
Howard Raiffa
A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.




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After a little reflection, the best strategy becomes clear: bid aggressively up to a maximum cutoff value and then quit.
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It's worth repeating here, though, because we are talking about mechanisms for resolving conflict and many people don't realize it's impossible to devise a foolproof scheme.
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Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.
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The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.
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Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).
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A lot depends on the starting point.
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