Negotiating

One good way for negotiations to fail before they begin is to have one or both parties demand that the other party accede to their negotiating points as a condition to beginning the negotiation. This subverts the negotiation in the most visible way, yet there are some who fail to see it.

Most people, however, who follow a particular public negotiation will not be fooled into believing the sincerity of the offending party. They will see it for what it is--an unwillingness to negotiate in the first place.