Comparing American and Chinese Negotiation Styles

November 192009

Google TechTalks
August 24, 2006

Terry Hird, UC Berkeley, Founder of Negotiation-International, has over 25 years of international business and negotiation under his belt. Terry’s work as a business owner, consultant and educator has brought him into contact with top business, organizations and learning institutions around the world. He has done business and negotiation in more than fifty countries throughout Asia, Europe, The Middle East, South America, and Africa. To learn more about Terry & Negotiation-International, visit http://www.negotiation-international.com

ABSTRACT
There is no Chinese word for negotiation. Tan pan translates “discussion or making a judgment”. In Chinese a negotiation…

Duration : 0:49:10


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18 Responses

  1. DrFoofyMan Says:

    That’s a pretty …
    That’s a pretty bigoted response.

  2. GabrielGZNH Says:

    Man, you don’t know …
    Man, you don’t know what you’re talking about… China is a giant factory..

  3. mrzack888 Says:

    that’s right …
    that’s right Bitches, CHINA = POWER!!!!!!!

  4. beareroftruthiness Says:

    I think this is the …
    I think this is the downfall of Asian society, because American don’t respect anyone. Asian society often take other people feelings in consider, while American couldn’t careless about anyone but themselve. Chinese should recognize the selfishness of American when negoitiation with them.

  5. iristinyhouse Says:

    Chinese always pay …
    Chinese always pay too much attention to how American think about it while in fact the latter spend 90%time concentrating on theirselves

  6. YFLOInternational Says:

    You mean ‘equally’ …
    You mean ‘equally’ smart right?

  7. thedailyenglishshow Says:

    30:57 99% of …
    30:57 99% of Japanese said that win-win was the goal. Interesting.

  8. zhaobudao Says:

    there are so many …
    there are so many errors in the chinese terms used ! Even an illiterate frenchman can see them
    不打不相识 is the true proverbe (without a fight we don’t know each other). It is wrongly spelled 不打不相悉 in the video

    monsieur le professeur; il faudrait apprendre le chinois d’abord !

    still an interesting video

  9. knightingale87 Says:

    to plandok: bace …
    to plandok: bace wei!! blaja leklok!! fammak nuboy!!

  10. xiaoxiao19 Says:

    to michaeldeng1981: …
    to michaeldeng1981:
    I agree with you.Chinese people are smart as Jewish people. I mean they are equality smart.

  11. sanityplse83688 Says:

    u suk
    u suk

  12. DrivingInIreland Says:

    definelty good talk …
    definelty good talk about chinese culture.

  13. chowbelly Says:

    Great to find a …
    Great to find a cream of the crop video.

  14. mathchadwick Says:

    Yeh this one was …
    Yeh this one was fascinating

  15. Garethchina Says:

    What the hell? that …
    What the hell? that room was half empty, and they were still walking out during questions. What a waste.

  16. aisrael1 Says:

    manzi doesnt mean …
    manzi doesnt mean face in Chinese. “Mian zi”.. is the correct word. 面子

  17. kotarak Says:

    splendid. thank you …
    splendid. thank you GOOGLE

  18. michaeldeng1981 Says:

    Chinese is might be …
    Chinese is might be the most complicated race in the world, they are the masters of abstraction, and they are very very smart people.

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