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    BHRM02C02

    Personal Effectiveness

    Dr. Sherine Fathy El-Fekey

    Second Semester 2008-2009

    Habit 4 Think Win/Win

    Team leader: Hekmat Momtaz

    Menna Farouk

    Dina El Sherbini

    Dayana Hussein

    Sandra Ramez

    Mark George

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    Hekmat Momtaz Finished English 3

    Y 3

    Thorough explanation and analysis of the chosen habit; theoretically

    as well as practically

    It's the fourth habit of "the 7 habits for highly effective

    people" by Stephen R. Covey, this habit is a philosophy that shows

    how humans interact with each other it's not a personalitytechnique that can be learned or applied. It represents the

    foundation of building interdependence achieving the public victory

    and how to deal with other people, to have mutual beneficial

    relationships, interact in an effective and profitable way without

    causing harm to others, and to have a higher way. People are

    initially dependent on each other, and in the first three habits we go

    through the transition between dependence and independence. Inorder to be Interdependent, you have to have the foundation of

    independence. It's also called "the habit of effective interpersonal

    leadership."

    There are six paradigms of human

    interaction:

    consideration

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    Lose/win

    win/win

    Lose/lose

    win/lose

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    Courage

    1.Win/ win:

    Seeking a third alternative, getting to a final solution

    that pleases both parties, it's about getting a beneficial deal at

    the end without causing harm to anybody. It's more like acting

    in a cooperative way all the time. It's characterized by a high

    level of consideration of others as well as high level of

    courage to take any action. And that happened in our

    management presentation with Dr. Eid, it was a play, we all

    wanted to win as well as we wanted to the other members of

    our team, we helped each other because we had to build amutual benefit by all doing great in the play because it was

    graded as a group so we cooperated, so we got an A+ and we

    were one of the best three teams that year.

    2.Win/ lose:

    It's based on competition, position, authority, or power ingetting their way. Not trying to have any mutual benefits.

    One's success is built on the other's failure. What explains this

    philosophy the best is the example of the book, about the man

    who wanted to increase cooperation in his company, so he

    was trying to make them work more and produce more by

    making them compete on wining a trip to Bermuda if they do

    well (win/ lose) so as a result they were frustrated. Win/ lose isa competition process based on low-trust existence, it's

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    dysfunctional to interdependence because of its characterizing

    by high level of courage but a low level of consideration it's a

    selfish act that seeks to achieve only one way.

    3.Lose/ win:

    It's the worst it seeks no expectations, people who think

    in this way are very easy to please and also appease, the win/

    lose people with their power and authority take advantage of

    the lose/ win people's weakness so that they achieve their

    success on other's failure. They keep things bottled up, a

    writer once said "unexpressed feelings never die" so when

    they try to express themselves they do but in an ugly way they

    are the best in being afraid of others and taking others in

    consideration because of that fear.

    4.Lose/ lose:

    It appears when two people think in the same way "win/

    lose" they both are seeking their own benefits and want to

    impose their way not the other's way without considering other

    opinion, it represents the lowest levels of consideration as well

    as levels of culture. It appears when both parties are at the

    lowest levels of consideration and courage. I used to play in a

    basketball team I was the leader, the star of the team but

    suddenly what I am good at was threaten by another team

    member, we went to a fierce competition and wanted to shine

    and win and we forgot about our team so we all lost at the

    end.

    5.Win:

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    It's a good way to interact with others but it's

    characterized by a low level of consideration and courage as

    well as low level of interaction with others, you don't even

    need to interact with others in order to win, work on your ownway to accomplish your own success, people think in that way

    to secure the result at the end. It's like a B student all what he

    wants at the end is to succeed by getting a B he doesn't seek

    other's failure to achieve his success. He's not affected by

    other's success or failure he only seeks his success. He wants

    to win.

    6.Win/ win or no deal:

    Being a win/ win or no deal person is having a thinking

    way that serve the deal; it's about getting a third alternative or a

    two way deal. It's either pleasing both parties or not. Here the

    person who thinks this way prefers not to have a deal instead of

    taking a decision that he regrets later. For example it's when an

    owner is trying to have a deal with a supplier; he wants to get the

    best deal by getting a mutual benefit (win/ win) so he has to

    compromise a little as well as the supplier to not lose their long-

    term relationship; if they didn't get to a final solution that pleases

    both parties so no deal is the better solution.

    The five dimensions of win/ win:

    1.Character: it's the base of building this habit, there are three

    character traits to think win/ win

    a(Integrity: being honest with me and with others creates self-

    awareness and independence that make our commitments

    and promises kept so win/ win turn out to be effective

    technique.

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    b(Maturity: "its balance between courage and consideration"

    which is having the courage to tell whatever you want and at

    anytime with a high sense of consideration for others.

    c(Abundance mentality: it's completes the foundation of the

    characters; it's about the concept of "there is a plenty out

    there for everybody", so that means they have openness to

    the win/ win think. There's another type of people with a zero-

    sum mentality who don't have the ability to win/ win who seek

    profit.

    2(Relationships: the win/ win relationships are built from

    the basis of the character; trust can increase the deposits

    of the emotional bank account so people act more openly

    based on that trust and mutual respect, which makes the

    focusing on the main problem not on personal problems;

    which lead to the appreciation of the other point of view

    and making beneficial relationships that can easily seek the

    profit of all the parties.

    3(Agreements: gives definition and guidelines of win/ win;

    which covers a huge range of interdependent acts. It

    consists of these five elements:

    a(Desired results: what needs to be done, at what time.

    b(Guidelines: instructions to be followed in order to achieve

    the best results.

    c(Resources: what's in hand that helps in achieving those

    results.

    d(Accountability: putting principles and values on which

    evaluation are made at the right time.

    e(Consequences: taking in consideration the good results as

    well as the bad ones and predict the results by evaluating the

    performance.

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    2(Systems: in order to be maintained in an organization;

    its system has to be spoken, rewarded as well. If you want

    to have a win/ win thinking at the end you first have to actthis way rewarding others have to be based on a win/ win

    act so to not ending up a win/ lose or even a lose/ win

    situation.

    3(Process: is how to arrive to a win/ win end; it's a four

    steps process for those who are seeking a win/ win solution

    at the end.

    1-Putting ourselves in the other party's place

    and see the problem from his own eyes not

    from others and to understand his situation and

    what's he's passing through.

    2-Recognizing the problems and see their

    causes and effects.

    3-Having a solution for these problems found

    that pleases all parties.

    4-Make new ways to achieve those results

    easily.

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    Supportive systems (4) and Processes (5)1Character

    2

    Relationship

    3

    Agreement

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    communication will be not only downward communication from

    manager to employee, but also it is going to be upward from

    employee to managers and lateral between people from the same

    level, from department to another. That is due to that in a win/winorganization sharing information is very important and in such an

    organization cooperation is extremely needed. This means that they

    will have to use an all channel means in order to not waste time

    and to make the employees feel satisfied and important.

    Grapevine, which is an informal communication network. In

    other words they are called rumors, win/win organizations usually

    have little or none of that because they use all means to make sure

    that everyone is involved and knows what is going on. In a win/win

    organization members are informed by everything and information

    is shared and there is no need for grapevine. That will lead to

    Knowledge management, which is one of the big concepts that are

    required in a win/win organization, because it basically means that

    all of the information in an organization is taken and goes to the

    right people in the right time, in order to help in a negotiation or

    decision making.

    A win/win leader can be a mix of charismatic, level-5 and

    transformational leadership, because they need to be able to

    influence their followers in a extraordinary way, they need to be

    able to make followers put their own self-interest in to the

    organization and work for the good of it. Therefore in brief they

    need to have team skills, individual competence and an ability to

    stimulate others to high performance. For example if a certain

    employee is having trouble adapting to a task or is not convinced

    and thinks that it is too much of a risk, then the leader should have

    the ability to convince and motivate this employee with the task and

    how it is actually good for the company and for him/her. Also, a

    win/win leader should be an authentic leader because they should

    has ethics and trust built in to everything they do, especially in

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    sharing information and communicating. There should be an

    identification-based trust between the two parties in order to be in a

    win/win agreement. For example, if a husband and wife decide to

    balance the finance of their family together and to share all kinds ofinformation about the financial aspect of their family, with no

    restriction. Then a week later the wife goes and buys expensive

    shoes and does not tell her husband. In this case she has broken the

    trust between them and it is no longer a win/win agreement

    because all she has in mind is her own well being and happiness not

    putting in mind the fact that he is depriving him self from things.

    Win/win in general, supports functional conflict, which is

    conflict that improves the performance, because win/win is made in

    order to help organizations perform better, with excellent relations

    with all the people around it. On the other hand there are things

    that stand in the way of win/win people while negotiating to try and

    reach a solution. One of these things is the communication itself,

    the semantic difficulties and misunderstandings can easily occur

    between people. The other thing is personal variables such as,

    values and beliefs, personality types and emotions and moods.

    Since these things differ from one person to the other, it can

    sometimes cause major differences.

    The major thing that influences whether you are a win/win

    person or not are your intentions:

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    Source: K. Thomas, Conflict and Negotiation Processes in Organizations, in M.D. Dunnette and L.M.Hough (eds.), Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2nd ed., vol. 3 (Palo Alto, CA:

    Consulting Psychologists Press, 1992), p. 668. With permission.

    Cooperativeness is to satisfy the other partys needs and

    assertiveness is attempting to satisfy an individuals own needs.

    There are five types of intentions:

    1(The first type is avoiding, which is low on both. This is a

    lose/lose person who does not care much about him or others.

    S/he is simply avoiding the problem.2(The second type is accommodating, which is high on

    cooperativeness and low on assertiveness. This is a lose/win

    person who does not care about himself, he cares more about

    satisfying the other party and if they are satisfied then s/he is

    also satisfied.

    3(The third type is competing, which is high on assertivenessand low on cooperativeness. This person is a win/lose person

    who only cares about satisfying himself and always being the

    winner or always being first, no matter what it takes. This type

    includes a lot of competition between the parties.

    4(The fourth type is compromising; a person cannot exactly

    identify this type as being win/win or win/lose, because youcannot tell the winner from the loser. This is due to that each

    party compromises and it ends up with both parties not

    satisfied.

    5(The last type is collaborating, which is high on both and that

    is a win/win person. A person who wants to satisfy his needs

    and others as well.

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    In general the win/win attitude is related to a lot of the

    materials studied in organizational behavior and personal

    effectiveness. There is a lot more than what I have mentioned

    above, but basically that is the brief relation and the most importantlinks.

    Reference:

    )Robbins, S.P. & Judge, T.A.) (2009) Organizational Behavior. USA: Pearson

    Prentice Hall

    )De Janasz, S.C & Dowd, K.O & Schneider, B.Z) (2009) Interpersonal Skills

    in Organizations. USA: McGraw Hill

    )Covey, S.R.) The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

    Linking and relating this habit to new topics from external

    sources as a result of your further readings and research

    I am going to relate the habit of interpersonal leadership with

    new topics from external sources and daily life experience.

    To cite an example that will be linked to the habit win/win and

    its definition, Orange Company is a very good example that will

    describe what win/win habit aims for. The logo of the Orange

    Company is Together we can do more, this logo symbolizes the

    aim of habit win /win as it indicates that all people inside this

    company are working cooperatively not competitively. According toone of my visits to this company as I was doing a research on it, I

    entered Orange Company and I was fascinated with the spirit of the

    team work that people are working with from top managers to small

    employees. The advantage of this company is that all parties feel

    good about the decisions and feel committed to the action plan

    which is considered from my point of view an encouragement for all

    members to develop their potential as they feel a part of thecompany.

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    Win/lose means that If I win, you lose and win/lose is the

    authoritarian approach. Win/lose people are prone to use position

    and power to get their way. Relating this habit to a close experience

    I have in my mind, I have a friend of mine whose father occupy anauthoritarian position in the government and he thinks always that

    he is the best person ever, no one can think accurately more than

    him; and he is the only one who is capable of taking decisions. He

    thinks that he is the one who must win, and all people around him

    are foolish and losers. He always uses his position and power to

    influence and make people do things for his own benefit without

    considering other people feelings or desires. To illustrate a good

    example, one day I was with my friend and her father attending a

    concert for the spring, and her father entered the hall and went to

    sit in the first row as he was usually used to, but a man came to him

    and said to him politely that he will not be able to sit here because

    this place is reserved for other people. My friends father told him

    that he is working in an authoritarian position in the government,

    but the man replied to him by saying, Thats non of my business

    and this is the rule of the place. My friends father broke the rules

    and he sent to this man body guards to beat the man and the body

    guards broke the mans leg and car in order to give him a lesson

    how to deal with their masters.

    According to the meaning of Lose/win approach, it illustrates

    that the people who belong to this approach are seeking strength

    from popularity and acceptance and have little courage to express

    their own feelings. Relating this habit by external sources. One of

    the famous examples that we see everyday, Hershey Foods

    Corporation, a leading snack food marketer and the largest North

    American confectionery company declared a $500,000 donation to

    the UNCF to establish the UNCF/Hershey Foods Scholarship. The

    fund will benefit students who are from the Harrisburg, Lancaster

    and Lebanon, Pennsylvania school area. This is a clear example thatillustrate the lose/ win concept as these cooperation donated with a

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    huge amount of money for the sake for doing something good and

    beneficial to other party .for sure this company donated with

    500,000 $ but from my point of view the companys name gained

    the world of mouth.

    According to lose/lose habit, is the philosophy of the highly

    dependent person without inner direction. After reading the story of

    Romeo and Juliet I think that this story is very perfect and famous

    example of Lose/Lose habit because as we know that Romeo is very

    dependent , he doesnt live without his love, which is Juliet. And

    also he depends his life on Juliet. Relating this situation to lose/lose

    habit when Juliet killed herself by taking a toxin, Romeo couldnt

    live without her as a result he decided to kill himself also in order to

    be loyal to her and he didnt imagine marrying another one.

    According to win/win or no deal habit, it means, No deal

    means basically means that if we can find a solution that would

    benefit us both, we agree to disagree agreeably- No deal. No

    expectation has been created, no performance, contractsestablished. A very famous example in win or no deal concept for

    example west life band could be an example that will illustrate the

    concept of win or no deal. They were a good team when a song

    sounds popular people say that all the team made an effort and

    they all win. Their success is considered a result for their

    cooperation. On the contrary, when they decided to spread

    according to the news that we hear and read in newspapers andsaw on TV, when every one of them began to became famous and

    every one has his own style in singing and addressing music

    according to his taste, every one of spread as there is no deal and

    no common ground to stand on like in the past.

    As recommended, the paper is discussing the interpersonal

    habits and relating these habits with external sources. To wrap up,

    you cannot find two people to be identical, they for sure are going to

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    be different and all of us will not tailor a person that has all the good

    characteristics. We as human beings, we should adapt with each

    other.

    Reference:

    1.http://www.lycos.com/info/donation--company.html

    Discuss how this habit can affect peoples personal development

    (personality traits, behavior , attitudes, feelings and emotions,perception ...

    etc(.

    Think win/ win is a philosophy of interaction; it's affected by

    many factors such as personal development, personal traits,

    attitudes and behavior, feelings, emotions and perception. In orderto be a win/win person you have to have certain personality traits

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    and special attitudes and behaviors. If these things are not available

    then it will end up being one of the other six paradigms such as

    win/lose, lose/lose, lose/win, win and win or no deal.

    Firstly, a person has to have certain personality traits he or

    she has to be skillful, self-confident, has to have large amounts of

    information has to be friendly and can deal with any situation that

    comes up on the spot. He has to be not defensive and not cynical in

    order to have proper behavior and attitudes to help him/her interact

    with others in a good way. S/he has to be emotionally stable in order

    to give the right response at the right time and not split or ruin

    relationships. Also, they have to deal with their frustrations on the

    spot in order not to have any bottled up and have them influence

    them badly. They have to try to be satisfied towards people in order

    to work more effectively and be more productive. A win/win person

    should have their own perception of everything but should not be

    strict and should be open to discuss it.

    A win/win attitude effects a person's personality traits; so if

    there is a person that's born selfish and he is in an environment of

    people who think win/ win hes forced to act as a win/ win. Because

    all the people around him wish the best for each other, therefore its

    going to be hard to build his success on other's failure. Since each

    person has different personality traits, therefore win/win will be

    implemented differently from one person to the other. For example,

    there is a person who is born with win/win attitudes within him.

    There is another person who learns how to be win/win through

    sessions and training. This proves that win/win is implemented or

    engraved in one person differently than the other.

    Secondly, attitudes and behaviors are affected by the win/win

    attitude because if a person tends to be defensive and cynical, they

    tend to not welcome people into their private zone and they tend to

    not like to be close to people and to share information and trust.That is the total opposite of a win/win person. Their behavior and

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    attitudes should be positive, trustworthy, reliable and an activist.

    For example, I was once in a group meeting and one of the people

    had an argument with the leader, the leader gave him a very

    diplomatic answer that the person sat down and could not answerhim back. Due to the leaders response that person decided to work

    quietly and did not disagree.

    Thirdly, emotions, feelings and moods, they have to be stable

    and not get influenced majorly by situation. If a win/win person gets

    influenced by their emotions for example I and my friend are

    working in a company and I am the manger of the company and my

    friend is an employee, thus when my friend makes something wrong

    in his work and this lapse will cause the company to enormous lose,

    despite of the flaws that will found in the organization I skip those

    flows to keep friendship. A win/ win person has to show the emotion

    that serves the deal.

    The perception is affected by the win/win circumstances; in a

    similar situation a person's perception could totally change just in

    order to achieve a mutual benefit; one must consider comprising or

    rearranging their priorities in order to achieve a status of win/win.

    The trick to coming in terms with this goal is to try to change the

    other party's perception without taking them to the cleaners or

    causing them any harm. For example, a colleague of mine was in

    business of ordering clothes and products from abroad and selling

    them in a shop locally which was also based on orders kind of like

    eBay only it wasnt online, his business partner was the person who

    travelled and personally bought the products, my colleague decided

    that there wasnt enough profit in the organization so she decided

    she didnt want to make it personalized orders but like a tasteful

    selection from abroad as well as locally. So after informing her

    business partner she convinced him with her opinion by showing

    him that this way would be much more rewarding and will help their

    store be more famous, and she teamed her partner up with a stylist

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    who followed her inspirations and her personal taste. This resulted

    in the store making much more profit and being well known for its

    tasteful respectable products.

    In conclusion, I would have to say that in my own personal

    point of view a win/win mentality can only be located in an

    emotionally developed individual, and is the end product of a fully

    functional human being with beliefs and moralities that come hand

    in hand with integrity, general courtesy and an all in all good nature

    towards other people in all his relationships.

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    Discuss how this habit can affect peoples career development

    (performance, effectiveness, quality, commitment, satisfaction,

    productivity etc(.

    The win/win philosophy affects several things in career

    development such as: performance, effectiveness, quality,

    satisfaction, and productivity.

    First, satisfaction is affected by the win/ win thinking; because

    when two people think win/ win both of them will be satisfied by

    getting a mutual benefit at the end of the situation. For example

    when an employee works in an organization and has successfully

    achieved a certain goal, then he is rewarded by the manager so he

    is going to be satisfied and motivated to give more.

    Here what causes this satisfaction is thinking in a win/win

    way. This satisfaction will lead to high performance. When the

    employee will come up with new ideas therefore s/he will have a

    win/win attitude as he achieves a win to himself and to the

    organization. That will affect the performance of the employees

    within the organization positively; therefore employees will work

    more by giving more effort so this will lead to increase the profit of

    the organization. For example, I have 10 people working in my

    store, I found that when there is a day where I upset them and treat

    them badly, their satisfaction decreases and at the end of the day

    that the profit decreases majorly. On the other hand when I reward

    them and I apologized to them because I treated them badly, I

    found out that the result is that they are satisfied and at the end of

    the day the profit doubles.

    Second, having a win/win attitude will cause the employees to

    want their organization to be as successful as they are. That will

    lead the employees to work more and contribute more to theorganization, therefore causing profits to increase and for their

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    organization to expand and be more profitable and successful. Old

    employees are at advantage because they would want the

    organization to succeed because they have been with the

    organization for a longer time and have seen it grow, that showshow committed they are to the organization and to their work.

    Therefore they will generate new innovative ideas and that will help

    them perform better.

    Third, productivity having a win/win attitude will affect the

    productivity positively and it will increase due to the mutual benefit

    between the employee and the organization .win/win attitude is very

    important in the productivity variable .because thinking in one of

    the other alternatives other than win/win attitude will cause

    decreasing in the productivity .all the employees must be totally

    happy to give more and increase the productivity. for example if im

    a win/lose personality I will want the employees to be more

    productive and I will not care about anything else .for example I

    want to gain more profit so I will not care about their salaries that

    much. this will cause to the decrease of the productivity .therefore

    in other wise I must be a win/win personality .I must give them high

    salaries to be more and more productive

    Fourth, effectiveness, being a win/win person will cause the

    organization to be more effective because it will maintain

    relationships with other organizations. It will be different than other

    organizations that have a win/lose personality they only win on

    others failure. And this will cause on the long term lose/lose and this

    will cause the effectiveness of the organization to decrease. For

    example a manger is used to win in his company and he used to be

    successful as usual, thus he makes something that encourage

    employees to make a perfect job and makes deal with them by

    giving them reward in order to make their job valuable and

    successful and to be an effective organization ever.

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    Fifth, Quality, the person who becomes a win/win person by

    being effective, productive, satisfied and with high performance

    then this persons work will be of high quality. For example, when an

    employee is satisfied then automatically he will perform better andthey will be more effective and therefore he becomes more

    productive. If all of the above is done then obviously the quality of

    the work will be superior. For example, you are working in Microsoft

    company the biggest company in software development and

    obviously all of the standards effecting employee work are high

    .therefore the quality must be perfect.

    A win/win personality is the best due to all of the above

    because anything other than win/win it will be temporary winning

    .there fore all employees and leaders in my own point of view must

    have a win/win personality to be always on the success high way.

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    Relate your habit with your culture; discussing how different

    cultures may affect, encourage, or discourage such a habit

    There are six paradigms of human interaction. Win/ win is not

    a technique it is a total philosophy of human interaction. The

    win/win process has four steps, first see the problem from others

    point of view, in terms of the needs of the other party. Secondidentify the key issues and concerns involved. Third determine what

    results would make a fully acceptable solution. Fourth identify new

    options to achieve those results. People who use the win/win

    philosophy must be creative in having new options for achieving

    results. Thinking win/win is a frame of mind that seeks mutual

    benefit and it is based on mutual respect. It is reasonable for all

    parties. In our culture, the habit think win-win is not applied to allpeople. There are three types of people in our culture:

    First, People who think win-win are few in our culture. There

    are people who use win-win philosophy by taking advantage of a

    certain situation or certain negotiation and also letting the other

    party take the same advantage, so the two parties are satisfied.

    These people, who think win-win, are the best in achieving their

    goals effectively because there will be a satisfaction between the

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    two parties so they will have a good relationship and they have the

    potential of repeating the business again, therefore it is a long-run

    win. Think win-win will affect our culture positively because thinking

    win-win will cause long term relationships and businesses, and bythat our culture will be developed. For example: if I am a team

    leader I am going to think about how to win and also allow the other

    members of my team to win, also as we all are in one team and one

    situation. Another example: if there is an agreement or even trust

    between employees and a manager in an organization both are

    going to succeed in their work as there will be satisfaction between

    them and both will win at the end as they are in the same

    organization.

    Second, nowadays most of the people use the win/lose

    philosophy; people seek to have their own desires and disregard the

    other party. Win/lose people are prone to use position, power,

    credentials, possessions or personality to get their way. This does

    not help our cultures development because people would not have

    long-term relationships, businesses will not be repeated and that is

    what most people do in our culture. For example: A normal football

    team when playing a match they are always aiming to win and

    wanting the other team to lose. So at this situation the team uses

    the win/lose philosophy.

    Third, there are people who uses lose/lose philosophy, people

    care more about relation no matter how it affects them, and they

    sacrifice for the sake of the other party. These people are rare in our

    culture because people now care more about their own desires and

    not about helping others. For example: hurting other people also

    hurts ourselves we may not feel it, we may feel better as we do

    revenge to the other party, but looking at thing as a whole it just

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    what situation you are in at that time, what you want to achieve,

    and what the other person wants to achieve.

    Reference:

    1.http://www.profitadvisors.com/win-win.shtml (win/win process(2.http://billfitzpatrick.com/AP/read/28.shtml (thinking win/win is a

    frame of mind(3.The seven habits for highly effective people coveys book

    4.http://www.flippingheck.com/7-Habits-Habit-4----Think-WinWin (thebest option really depends on what situation you are in at that time, what

    you want to achieve, and what the other person wants to achieve.

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