By banning Australian coal, China hoped to deprive an important trading partner of an important source of revenue. Ironically, in the short term, its action created exactly the opposite.
In West Africa, three countries (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) have long been favourite investment destinations of miners, both big producers and junior exploration companies alike.
Mining is essential to the maintenance of civilization, but it’s unloved. That’s unfortunate because other industries such as agriculture and fishing wreak far more damage to the environment.
Most negotiation books or courses emphasize the importance of figuring out the dominant negotiating style of the party sitting across the table from you. As Chriss Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator and author of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as If Your Life Depends on It explains, there are basically only three: Accommodator, Assertive, and Analyst.
The common refrain mentioned by women who initiate divorce is: “He doesn’t listen to me.”
It’s probably more like a situation whereby the husband has been listening all along, but he just doesn’t know how to engage his wife in a way that makes she feel heard.
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