I Learned About Systems as a Cocktail Waitress, by Sharon-Drew Morgen

When seeking a creative alternative during a negotiation recently, I didn’t have the entire fact pattern: I knew my own version, of course, but surely even that was incomplete. But I had an alternate tool: my knowledge of systems. To identify an optimized outcome, I merely had to rely on my knowledge of patterns and systems learned decades earlier when I was a cocktail waitress. The post I Learned…