Month: August 2015

WIN-LOSE, WIN-WIN, AND ALTERNATIVES

It’s often pointed out that it’s unproductive to deal with conflict as a win-or-lose matter, as happens in litigation. Win-lose approaches often (maybe usually) lead to lose-lose results. There are some true zero-sum situations where my winning necessarily requires your losing (i.e., where “I win” and “you lose” mean exactly the same thing), but they…