When You’re Negotiating

 When You’re Negotiating

“Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis

or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room

and you’ll be able to figure your way out of it.”

Rudolph Giuliani, Mayor of New York  

As I see it. . . . . . . .

When you’re negotiating

Remain the calmest person in the room . . . .

When you’re facing a problem of any magnitude . . . . remain the calmest person in the room.

In the mist of negotiating remain clam . . . . and keep your emotions under control . . . . and remain the calmest person in the room.

In negotiating as in solving problems it takes composure . . . . understanding of the issues . . . . and calmness of purpose to achieve a successful conclusion.

Overreaction creates confusion and a lack of focus to resolve the issue; it will also cloud your thinking and decision making. This will create a large gap in coming to a successful result that moves you in the wrong direction.

Calmness allows us to seek successful solutions, remain focused on the outcome and to stay on purpose.

When you’re negotiating remain the calmest person in the room . . . . and you will carve out a strategic advantage in creating successful outcomes.

©2014 Lou Ludwig Motivational Power Quote, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author

 

 

Be Like a Duck

Motivational Power Quote

Be Like a Duck

“Always behave like a duck – keep calm an unruffled

on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”

Jacob Braude, Circuit Court Judge

   

As I see it. . . . . . . .

Be like a duck

When you see a duck on the rainy days you will see that the rain . . . . is beading and running off the ducks back. You need to be like that duck. When you encounter those rainy days in your life . . . . you need to allow the rain to bead and roll off your back and focus on solutions.

You will also notice that the duck seems to be gliding smoothly through the water with a sense of ease. What we don’t see is . . . . how hard the duck is paddling under the water surface to go forward.

Some days you are going to have paddle as hard as you can to make progress and to go forward.

You have to remain calm when you are navigating the turbulence that you have encountered. When you lose your composure and become disheveled . . . . you lose focus on the issues. Instead making progress you paddle around in circles without a real purpose or progress.

Be like a duck and once you set your course paddle like the devil to get there.

©2012 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author