Advice: don't embarrass your bargaining partner by forcing him or her to make all the concessions.

The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave.

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.

Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

Game theory, however, deals only with the way in which ultrasmart, all knowing people should behave in competitive situations, and has little to say to Mr. X as he confronts the morass of his problem.