Tag: alternative

  • Negotiation lessons from the safety patrol

    I recently volunteered to serve as safety patrolman for my neighborhood. In essence, this involved trolling around the neighborhood at night, making sure no one (i.e., no teenager) was breaking community rules (e.g., loitering at the community beach) or even breaking the law (e.g., defacing said beach). Since my duties tended to bring the community’s…

  • What’s up, doc? Negotiating in healthcare

    Most of us spend more on healthcare than we’d like to—more, in some cases, than our annual car or mortgage payments. That being the case, why do we spend so much time negotiating the terms of our cars and houses, and so little the terms of our healthcare? Frankly, the negotiation professor in me just…