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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

About a year ago I read a non-fiction book that OSC recommended. Unless I'm mixing up more than one book in my head it was mostly a buisness book and it talked about:

Negotiation strategies depending on your situation and the situation of those you are negotiation with (supplier vs. customer, etc.)
The phrase "get paid to play" kept being repeated over and over
How to "win" in the childhood division strategy of "I split the cake in two, you choose which one you want"
How to "win" when severing a joint-owned partnership where one person chooses the buy-out price and the other person gets to choose whether to buy or sell at that price.
how having an agreement with a customer that they'll always get the lowest price you give anybody really gives you an advantage when negotiating with other customers

Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :

Poor thread.
I don't know the title, but I did read a good economic romance, The Invisible Heart... :}

I dredge up this thread because I'm in the same predicament. I can't figure out what book I'm thinking of and I may have mixed a few up in my head. It's been driving me nuts all day.
I can recall a couple of different scenes.

One is the capitol, either city or planet, and they have controlled the climate so that it's always sunny and warm and beautiful.

Another is this family in jail. The son is taken and a tracer is implanted into his arm, then he and a few more children -I think- are put into the woods and hunted by some guys.. This kid somehow gets the tracer out of his arm and then manages to attack and defeat the hunters. Huzzah.

I think there were some fights between ships, set off by an invisible one.

Final thing I remember is a young man and possibly a friend off on a planet, possibly as ambassadors or students or maybe even stowaways. Wait, I think it was an exchange program between the rulers of two planets.. -sigh- Then there's some sort of discovery about the planet, a very important and very bad discovery, possibly having to do with technology.

There was probably fighting.

I have no idea why this suddenly pops up, but there it is. Any and all help appreciated.

Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :

I have no idea about the book you're searching for (sounds cool!), but I did enjoy The Invisible Heart, partly because my husband was an English lit major while I'm getting my Ph.D in economics. It was a little too cheesy and simplified for my tastes, but that's probably because I've been making all the same arguments for the past four years. [Smile]

Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :

That was probably one of the more entertaining extra credit opportunities we had. It sort of reminded me of a musical. Like, where people suddenly burst out into song and no one finds that weird or even amusing.. Here they break out into econ and people go with the flow. Somewhat like magical realism.

Posted by Krankykat (Member # 2410) on :

Mr. P:

Get Paid to Play & "How to "win" in the childhood division strategy..."

But the rest doesn't seem to fit.

K [Wink]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

I remembered the book. It is Co-Opetition.