By name: peterson-negotiation-doctrine description: Joel Peterson's negotiation doctrine for The Sett. Use whenever a Badger (Melli, Persona_Tah, Eve_Retti, Leu_Kurus) enters a B2B vertical deal, encounters counterparty manipulation, faces a HAVE-TO-HAVE-THE-DEAL pressure cooker, designs a Lock-the-Bracket template, builds rules of the road with a serial partner, or assesses brand drift across deal cycles. Surfaces eight load-bearing Peterson principles (Rule One, no-episodic-negotiations, solve-for-fairness, right-person-CCP, two-sided-BATNA, elephants-vs-ants, ineffective-tactics-defense, deliberate-brand-building) with verbatim source citations to the 2007 Stanford lecture and the 2026 posthumous tweet that surfaced it. compatibility: ["the-sett", "melli", "b2b-vertical-campaigns", "lock-the-bracket"]
Peterson Negotiation Doctrine for The Sett
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Files
- references/principle-1-rule-one-options-first.md
- references/principle-2-no-episodic-negotiations.md
- references/principle-3-solve-for-fairness.md
- references/principle-4-right-person-ccp.md
- references/principle-5-two-sided-batna.md
- references/principle-6-elephants-vs-ants.md
- references/principle-7-ineffective-tactics-defense.md
- references/principle-8-deliberate-brand-building.md
- references/source-canonical-transcript.md
- references/source-stanford-obit.md
- references/source-tweet-context.md
Source
- Origin tweet: https://x.com/sulekhat95/status/2057868213904712160 (May 22 2026)
- Canonical lecture: Joel Peterson, "Conducting Effective Negotiations," Stanford Executive Education, January 31 2007
- Authority: Robert L. Joss Adjunct Professor of Management at Stanford GSB (33 years); former Chairman of JetBlue; Founding Partner of Peterson Partners. Died November 25 2025.
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