{"id":5374,"date":"2014-04-23T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonapollovoss.local\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2018-09-21T02:03:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:03:55","slug":"a-presidents-view-of-the-art-of-negotiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2014\/04\/23\/a-presidents-view-of-the-art-of-negotiation\/","title":{"rendered":"A President\u2019s View of the Art of Negotiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It isn&#8217;t often that you get a chance to listen to a former president discuss the art of negotiation, and it is rarer still that you learn negotiating secrets from a leader whose peace treaty helped to end an intractable conflict and garnered him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. Such was the case at the <a title=\"CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/meic.cfainstitute.org\/\">Middle East Investment Conference<\/a>, where <a title=\"Jamil Mahuad\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cfainstitute.org\/meic\/speakers\/jamil-mahuad\/\">Jamil Mahuad<\/a>, former president of Ecuador, and co-negotiator of a peace treaty with his nation&#8217;s enemy, Peru, shared words of wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In laying the foundations for negotiation, you must first know what negotiation is. Mahuad stated that negotiation is a process, taking place between two parties, in which both parties agree to a method to search for an agreement. That method is dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Interestingly, the former president reminded the audience that they must first negotiate with themselves. That is, those interested in negotiating an end to a conflict must first know what they want and for what changes they are negotiating. Otherwise, discussions are likely to fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><a title=\"A President\u2019s View of the Art of Negotiation\" href=\"http:\/\/meic.cfainstitute.org\/2014\/04\/09\/a-presidents-view-of-the-art-of-negotiation\/#more-2680\">Continue reading on the Middle East Investment Conference blog<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>Originally published on CFA Institute\u2019s \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cfainstitute.org\/investor\/\">Enterprising Investor<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn&#8217;t often that you get a chance to listen to a former president discuss the art of negotiation, and it is rarer still that you learn negotiating secrets from a leader whose peace treaty helped to end an intractable conflict and garnered him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. Such was the case at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[235,236],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-blog","tag-geopolitics","tag-negotiation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}