If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you'd better negotiate with it.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- When obstacles cannot be bypassed physically, one must adapt through negotiation.
- In plain terms
- If you cannot bypass a problem, work with it instead.
- What can you take from it?
- Negotiation is a tool for inescapable obstacles.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What can you change?
- When must you accept limits?
Another view
Some obstacles are structural and cannot be negotiated with.
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