{"id":1322,"date":"2017-06-11T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T18:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2017-07-11T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:37:33","slug":"the-great-negotiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"The Great Negotiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully the mythos of Trump as some superior negotiator will be dispelled by, well &#8230; let&#8217;s just say he reminds me of an employee with a grotesquely inflated resume. Sure, they get the job. At some point they show up for work and display their\u00a0<em>real<\/em> qualifications.<\/p>\n<p>A halfway decent negotiator understands the other party&#8217;s motivations &#8211; that would take some study and some awareness of\u00a0<em>something<\/em> outside of yourself. More importantly, though, a good negotiator understands the strengths and weaknesses of their position. Knows what leverage they have &#8211; which isn&#8217;t to say you cannot negotiate a good deal when you lack leverage. That&#8217;s the point of bluffing. But if you are completely unaware of your standing, you don&#8217;t have the good sense to bluff.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be honest here &#8212; someone who didn&#8217;t think health care would be so complicated, who didn&#8217;t realize China didn&#8217;t have a whole bunch of sway over North Korea (nor the impetus to use their influence to benefit the US) certainly doesn&#8217;t understand what leverage he&#8217;s got in negotiating either. And someone whose big experience with taxes is managing to lose an incredible amount of money (probably park the debt somewhere that it won&#8217;t be collected) and turn that into a tax-free decade probably isn&#8217;t going to enter into the tax reform negotiating with a whole heap of power either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully the mythos of Trump as some superior negotiator will be dispelled by, well &#8230; let&#8217;s just say he reminds me of an employee with a grotesquely inflated resume. Sure, they get the job. At some point they show up for work and display their\u00a0real qualifications. A halfway decent negotiator understands the other party&#8217;s motivations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}