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Reprise: Planning a Constructive Confrontation Strategy: Understanding the Relationship between Negotiation and Power
Power takes three forms that can be mixed and matched: coercion, exchange, and integration. The "recipe" for the optimal "power strategy mix" changes depending on whom you are trying to influence.
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Summary of "Getting Disputes Resolved"
BI boom summary of Ury, Brett, and Goldberg's seminal book that highlighted healthy and distressed dispute resolution systems, depending on the hierarchy of power strategies that get used in the resolution of disputes.
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The Complex Nature of Power
Power is not just the ability to force someone to do something against their will. It is also the ability to influence others through mutually beneficial exchanges and persuasion.
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Constructive Confrontation: Handling Conflict More Constructively from an Advocacy Perspective
Fundamental conflict resolution strategies are useful for advocates, as well as for neutral third parties. To the extent you can advocate for your side more effectively, the more likely you will be successful in gaining what you want. The more you generate push back from destructive strategies, the less likely you are to succeed.
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Interests, Rights and Power
A short, easy to understand article explaining the distinction between interests, rights, and power, and when each should be used to resolve a dispute.
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Strategic Use of Interests, Rights, and Power to Resolve Disputes
Thisl article explains the strategic use of the interests, rights, and power framework and offers guidelines on how to break conflict spirals of reciprocated rights and power.