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Philip Williams, Hostage and Crisis Negotiator & CEDR Trainer
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Ben Thomson, Content Strategist, CEDR
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This episode of #askanegotiator is a little different from the others.
While we normally ask Philip Williams a negotiation question, this time, we reflect on the pre-podcast sausage roll ritual and the powerful influencing and persuasion lesson it holds.
To give you a quick taster, when negotiating sieges during his time as a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator, Philip would often receive hostages in return for cigarettes, coffee or food…
A human life for a cigarette…
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