17: Concede slowly and in small amounts

So you have to make a concession. What does the research say about how you should do that? Mohan kasla and Randy Eila give a golden nugget in their book. Let's get real

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So you are down to the negotiations on your deal. It came to month and a quarter end and you're gonna have to make a concession to get it in booked on your timeline. Man, Cosla and Randy , Eileen say in their book, let's get real or let's not play conceit . Slowly concede in small amounts negotiation. Research shows that people feel just as good winning small concessions as they do large ones. As long as those concessions were difficult to achieve, we should negotiate accordingly. The tradeoffs mentioned in the previous section covers small reductions in price, not large ones, large variations in price. Our selling problems, not negotiation problems. So that's just straight from the book. Um, I should say that later on in the chapter they do say yo never give something for nothing. So that's kind of one of their key tenants. But in this one paragraph they talk about the idea that as long as people fight for a concession, I'm a small one, has as much value as a big one. And this is, this is kinda interesting, you know, in my experience going back over the years, especially in the software world where margins are big, giving up, know decent size or bigger concessions is often seen as as a way just to get deals done or , or, or to , um, you know, speed up processes that we get things done in our timeline. And it's interesting to me that , uh, in the research that they talk about that, you know , perhaps in the past we could have actually given up last and gotten the same outcome. Um, so giving them small amounts or making it hard, do it slowly so you know, a bit more back and forth maybe . And it's going to test your resolve that month then or quarter end . Um, cause you're going to be a little bit keen to get it in , in your timeline. So positioning it is going to be important. But , um, you know, I completely get the idea that getting the deal done and , and , and moving on so that we , uh, we get things done in our timeline, but this is eye opening in credentialing. They say, well, you know, going forward, is there something that we could do a little bit differently and have our negotiation strategy based on giving small incremental concessions , uh , that are hard won by the buyer rather than trying to speed things up by giving bigger ones to get things done. And I think that's the key takeaway. Next. A deal that you're going through and you're building out your negotiation strategy. Think about hard won small

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