Frank Underwood<\/a>, nor intend to take him as a fictitious mentor: I leave ruthlessness aside. Casualties can be avoided, scratches may be deflected. Making me feel guilty for sticking to my decision, which does not match one\u2019s expectations, is unlikely the most judicious way to make me change my mind. I know I am taking a (calculated) risk betting on the competition. This service provider took another one with his sales method, which relatively turned me off and substantially justified and comforted my decision. I leave the door open to a future cooperation: this may sound polite and careful. I see it as curious about business opportunities, knowing everything is negotiable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That expression comes from Beau Willimon, one of the geniuses behind House of cards (yes, I confess I am a big fan, and this one is in Season 2, episode 3), and it stroke a chord while negotiating with a service supplier recently. The service…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9,39,60,158,187,5,70,47],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-item","tag-business","tag-challenge","tag-cost","tag-decision","tag-initiative","tag-negotiation","tag-risk","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangefroglogistics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}