There is no shortage of disputes.

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

Ideas are incestuous.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

It is always amazing to see how wide a spectrum of results can be obtained from replicating an identical negotiation with different principal actors; it makes no difference whether there subjects are inexperienced or whether they are senior executives and young presidents of business firms. That is an important lesson to be learned here.

There is no shortage of disputes.