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{{c|psychology}}{{a|negotiation| | {{c|psychology}}{{a|negotiation|[[File:Ouija.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Many hands on the steering wheel makes shite work]]}}If, as we contrarians like to, we see a [[negotiation]] not as a straight, two-dog tussle between [[buyer]] and [[seller]], but a multi-dimensional game of [[passive-aggressive]] [[rent-seeking]] that is merely ''staged'' within the intellectual construct of a [[Negotiation|bilateral negotiation]] ''supposedly'' between a [[buyer]] and [[seller]] — think of the negotiation as a kind of ''papier-mâché'' ecosystem on which a totally different struggle for memetic survival is waged — then possibilities open up for those who genuinely seek to move the negotiation on. | ||
[[File:Ouija.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Many hands on the steering wheel makes shite work]] | |||
}}If, as we contrarians like to, we see a [[negotiation]] as | |||
Remember the array of ''agendas'' here. There are many competing interests — as many as there are players in this drama; more in fact, since any [[Agency problem|agent]] has his ''own'' interest and ''{{sex|his}} [[principal]]’s'' to juggle — and the interests that ''ought'' to prevail: those of the notional “buyer” and “seller” (should we call them “hosts”?) are in practice ''the most weakly held''. | Remember the array of ''agendas'' here. There are many competing interests — as many as there are players in this drama; more in fact, since any [[Agency problem|agent]] has his ''own'' interest and ''{{sex|his}} [[principal]]’s'' to juggle — and the interests that ''ought'' to prevail: those of the notional “buyer” and “seller” (should we call them “hosts”?) are in practice ''the most weakly held''. | ||