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{{a|negotiation}}The proportion of an agreement that is so utterly ghastly as to be beyond a given negotiator’s will power to argue about it any longer. The point at which one is no longer is prepared to die in a ditch therefore. implications of the tedium quotient:
{{a|negotiation|}}The proportion of an agreement that is so utterly ghastly as to be beyond a given negotiator’s will power to argue about it any longer. The point at which one is no longer is prepared to die in a ditch therefore. implications of the tedium quotient:
*The higher one’s tolerance for tedium, the longer one can last in a negotiation that is not, unequivocally, in a ditch, so he given tedium quotient of any contract will bear a direct proportion to the most pedantic person’s ditch tolerance.  
*The higher one’s tolerance for tedium, the longer one can last in a negotiation that is not, unequivocally, in a ditch, so he given tedium quotient of any contract will bear a direct proportion to the most pedantic person’s ditch tolerance.  
*One’s ditch tolerance at any point in time is ''inversely'' proportional to one’s ''perceived'' proximity to a ditch. It is fascinating how, if a negotiator finds herself unexpectedly ''in'' a ditch that she did not realise was there the moment previously when she hotly insisted that she could never concede this point as long as there was the hope of breath and an animate ''spiritus mundi'', suddenly her appetite for dying in it vanishes like summer dew.
*One’s [[ditch tolerance]] at any point in time is ''inversely'' proportional to one’s ''perceived'' proximity to the ditch in question. It is fascinating how, if a negotiator finds herself unexpectedly ''in'' a ditch that she did not realise was there the moment previously when she hotly insisted that she could never concede this point as long as there was the hope of breath and an animate ''spiritus mundi'', suddenly her appetite for dying in it vanishes like summer dew.


This is why it is fun, unexpectedly, to declare a negotiation at an irretrievable impasse and to walk away.  
This is why it is fun, unexpectedly, to declare a negotiation at an irretrievable impasse and to walk away.  

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The proportion of an agreement that is so utterly ghastly as to be beyond a given negotiator’s will power to argue about it any longer. The point at which one is no longer is prepared to die in a ditch therefore. implications of the tedium quotient:

  • The higher one’s tolerance for tedium, the longer one can last in a negotiation that is not, unequivocally, in a ditch, so he given tedium quotient of any contract will bear a direct proportion to the most pedantic person’s ditch tolerance.
  • One’s ditch tolerance at any point in time is inversely proportional to one’s perceived proximity to the ditch in question. It is fascinating how, if a negotiator finds herself unexpectedly in a ditch that she did not realise was there the moment previously when she hotly insisted that she could never concede this point as long as there was the hope of breath and an animate spiritus mundi, suddenly her appetite for dying in it vanishes like summer dew.

This is why it is fun, unexpectedly, to declare a negotiation at an irretrievable impasse and to walk away.


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