One common negotiation tip is expanding the pie. The concept is simple, you have a pie and it is only so big. If there are eight slices and you get five, the other person will only gets three. If the pie represents money, you have a zero sum game; one side wins and the other side loses. Not much fun in that if you are the loser, so both sides try to win and negotiations can become deadlocked. An astute negotiator goes beyond the “I win – you lose” philosophy and tries to make both sides winners. The solution is to be creative, to find out what the other side needs, and to satisfy that need. A lot of times this need is more than money.