The Negotiation Skills Company -- Newsletter 12 September 2001
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The Negotiation Skills Company, Inc. (TNSC)
Number 18, 12 September 2001
FIGHTING FIRES WITHOUT BURNING BRIDGES(sm)
The occasional newsletter of The Negotiation Skills
Company, Inc. (TNSC)
ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF CIVILITY
The mission statement of The Negotiation Skills
Company, Inc. is: "Advance the cause of civility."
Our philosophy is founded on the belief that except for
an extraordinarily small number of people, human beings
share common interests in peace and fairness and
personal freedom.
The attacks on the United States of America were an
attack on the fundamental interests of civilized
people. An anonymous enemy attacked, without named
purpose, destroying innocent lives, using civilian
aircraft as weapons of war.
The cowardice and viciousness displayed by the
anonymous barbarians attacking without named
ideological purpose did more to bring Americans
together than any event since the Second World War.
Our office has received messages from all over the
world expressing sympathy and condemning the attack.
In developing our negotiation consulting and training
programs over the past ten years, The Negotiation
Skills Company has never deluded itself into thinking
that, by ourselves, we can save the world from
barbarity. But we were founded based on the obligation
of every civilized person to take whatever steps they
can to initiate or carry on positive change.
When we work with individuals or companies or other
organizations wanting to enhance their capacities to
reach solutions in a peaceful, civilized manner TNSC is
fulfilling our moral and ethical commitment to 'advance
the cause of civility'.
Yesterday's attack on America and on civilized
standards of human behavior demonstrates our ongoing
obligation to pursue our mission. And it underscores
the duty of all people of good will to take whatever
steps they can towards making the world a better place.
There are evil people in this world; with some six
billion people, there have to be several hundred or
even several thousand 'bad guys'. But they cannot set
the rules - and they will not.
Steve Cohen
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