
176 SEVEN SECRETS FOR NEGOTIATING WITH GOVERNMENT
future benefits, extra-deal negotiations begin with both parties’
disappointed expectations. One side has failed to achieve the bene-
fits expected from the transaction, and the other is being asked to
give up something for which it bargained hard and which it hoped
to enjoy for a long time. And whereas both parties to the negotia-
tion of a proposed new venture participate willingly, if not eagerly,
one party always participates reluctantly, if not downright unwill-
ingly, in an extra-deal renegotiation.
Beyond mere disappointed expectations, extra-deal renegotia-
tions, by their very nature, can create ...