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When you’ve got multiple powerful parties involved in a decision, compromise is unavoidable.
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…the most important thing needs to get done first or they won’t get done at all.
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Real winners never sneak to finish lines by clandestine or compromised routes. They do it the old-fashioned way – with talent, hard work, trust, fairness, and honesty.
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…compromise – ‘splitting the difference’ – can lead to terrible outcomes.
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We don’t compromise because it’s right; we compromise because it is easy and because it saves face.
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Distilled to its essence, we compromise to be safe.
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Negotiating under the banner of win-win, you’ll have no way of knowing if you’ve made good and necessary decisions leading up to the compromise.
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