Top 17 Howard Raiffa Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.
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#4. A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.
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#10. A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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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#13. 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.
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#14. The mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.
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#15. It's easy, of course, for two teams to collude, but somewhat more difficult for twenty-eight
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#16. Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.
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#17. Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.
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