The class week of 4/16/2012 we did another group negotiation. Prior to this negotiation we watched a short video of a negotiation between an American business man and a Asian business man. In the video you saw how the two parties wanted very different things in terms of a relationship. After watching the video we were given a negotiation to do in groups that dealt with each group of 2 or 3 being a different country. This way we were able to play the role of our country and see how different countries interact.
During the negotiation I along with Taylor played the role of the American. As the American I wanted things to get finished quickly and I obviously wanted as much control as possible. Despite my role, I knew that from prior negotiations we were going to have to give up some things in order to gain some value. Unfortunately going into the negotiation we saw that it was next to impossible to log roll.
Although our group did not get along and we had to caucus a few times, in the end the Americans got what they wanted.
This was a very fun and different negotiation. Seeing different points of view from what different countries valued was definitely different.
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