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The start of the deal: How to pitch your opening offer
3 hours ago • by Martin Schweinsberg in Strategy • 9 min read • 
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Setting an ambitious anchor in a negotiation can deliver big rewards, but it can also risk disaster. Drawing on 90 studies, Martin Schweinsberg offers a framework for a more informed approach to...
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Time to shift from artificial intelligence to artificial integrity
The quicksilver evolution of AI technologies is opening extraordinary opportunities but leaves human beings exposed to risks. Is it time we developed artificial integrity to safeguard fairness and security even as we...
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Typically, negative experiences hit with about four times the force of positive experiences. Critical feedback hits most of us harder than reinforcing feedback. Here we consider three mysteries of negativity bias and...
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