Arbitration & Mediation

Negotiating En Fran?ais

By Victoria Pynchon

O.K.  I took French in high school but all I can say now is très malade because I was so sick in Paris once I thought I would die. 

Still, French attorney Dominique Lopez-Eychenie has an ADR blog that I have been "reading" for awhile with Babble Fish. 

Now Jens Thang of the Negotiation Guru has picked up some of Dominique's thoughts in his post Cultural Negotiation:  a French Perspective. 

From the awkwardness of Jens' translation, it looks like he used Babble Fish too.  It's not perfect, but you can get the general idea of  most of Dominique's posts this way. 

What struck me most about the one Jens picked up was Dominique's observation that Americans don't understand or enjoy the "play" in negotiation, which is spot on.  

But check out this article from last Sunday's New York Times on the increasing practice of Americans negotiating retail.  Maybe we'll learn the play of negotiation soon.  

Full post as published by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).