This applies particularly to one’s opponents. We can’t afford to get lost in reactivity and polarization. Quite the contrary, in fact. To hear the best possible labor settlement, you somehow have to be “in” the corporate negotiator opposite you at the bargaining table: what’s it like to have to worry about chief executive officers, stockholders, the hierarchy and narrow options of corporate life? To hear the best possible strategy to bring about disarmament, you have to understand the mentality of those who plan for war: what fears, what models of mind, engender and support planning for
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