On Behalf of Meynardie & Nanney, PLLC | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Bob Meynardie, Mediation, Mediation Theory, Negotiation
by Bob Meynardie September 22, 2013 Bob Meynardie, Mediation & Arbitration I have recently been reading a number of relatively new books with claims of a revolutionary new way to approach negotiation. Without exception and without naming names, each new...
On Behalf of Meynardie & Nanney, PLLC | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Bob Meynardie, Mediation, Mediation Theory, Negotiation
by Bob Meynardie October 22, 2013 Bob Meynardie, Mediation & Arbitration, Outsourced General Counsel The first tenet of what Fisher & Ury call “The Method” is to separate the people from the problem. Although I think I understood their point when I...
On Behalf of Meynardie & Nanney, PLLC | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Bob Meynardie, Mediation, Mediation Theory
by Bob Meynardie December 12, 2013 Bob Meynardie, Mediation & Arbitration By far the most often quoted tenet of “the Method” is to avoid positional bargaining and instead focus on the underlying interests of the opposite sides. Fisher & Ury illustrate their...
On Behalf of Meynardie & Nanney, PLLC | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Bob Meynardie, Mediation, Mediation Theory, Negotiation
by Bob Meynardie July 30, 2015 Bob Meynardie, Mediation & Arbitration One of the primary tenets of Roger Fisher and William Ury’s book “Getting to Yes” is that negotiations should focus on interests not positions, i.e., avoid positional bargaining. Positional...
On Behalf of Meynardie & Nanney, PLLC | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Bob Meynardie, Mediation, Mediation Theory
by Bob Meynardie September 2, 2015 Bob Meynardie, Mediation & Arbitration In spite of an acknowledged preference for interest-based “principled” negotiation, I acknowledged in my previous post that every civil mediation eventually becomes a positional battle. This...
On Behalf of Meynardie & Nanney, PLLC | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Bob Meynardie, Mediation, Mediation Theory
by Bob Meynardie October 1, 2018 Bob Meynardie, Mediation & Arbitration Any article on winning must start by defining the term. Unlike most of what we do as litigators, mediation never results in an absolute “win.” Some settlements feel more like wins than others...
On Behalf of Meynardie & Nanney, PLLC | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog, Bob Meynardie, Mediation, Mediation Theory
Narrative Mediation by Bob Meynardie January 11, 2019 Bob Meynardie, Mediation & Arbitration For the past 18 months or so, I have been studying and trying to implement in my mediation practice, techniques from a “discipline” called Narrative Mediation. Narrative...