'Getting to YES' からの引用です。
When you are trying to catch an airplane your goal may seem tremendously important; looking back on it, you see you could have caught the next plane. Negotiation will often present you with a similar situation. You will worry, for instance, about failing to reach agreement on an important business deal in which you have invested a great deal of yourself. Under these conditions, a major danger is that you will be too accommodating to the views of the other side--too quick to go along. The siren song of "Let's all agree and put an end to this" become persuasive. You may end up with a deal you should have rejected.
"siren song" の意味を調べます。
・Merriam-Webstery: an alluring utterance or appeal especially: one that is seductive or deceptive: the opportunity for fame and fortune is the siren song that has long lured the ambitious to the big city
・Collins English Dictionary: a dangerously attractive, esp. seductive, proposal or offer: The husky sound he drew from her throat was a siren song urging him to forget whatever danger might wait in the surrounding darkness.
・Wiktionary: An enticing but dangerous appeal, especially a misleading one.: Romance never sang to him her siren song, and Adventure had never shouted in his sluggish blood.
この辞書には語源についても次のように触れていました。
Etymology: From the songs of the sirens in Greek mythology, whose bewitching song lured mariners to their doom.
When you are trying to catch an airplane your goal may seem tremendously important; looking back on it, you see you could have caught the next plane. Negotiation will often present you with a similar situation. You will worry, for instance, about failing to reach agreement on an important business deal in which you have invested a great deal of yourself. Under these conditions, a major danger is that you will be too accommodating to the views of the other side--too quick to go along. The siren song of "Let's all agree and put an end to this" become persuasive. You may end up with a deal you should have rejected.
"siren song" の意味を調べます。
・Merriam-Webstery: an alluring utterance or appeal especially: one that is seductive or deceptive: the opportunity for fame and fortune is the siren song that has long lured the ambitious to the big city
・Collins English Dictionary: a dangerously attractive, esp. seductive, proposal or offer: The husky sound he drew from her throat was a siren song urging him to forget whatever danger might wait in the surrounding darkness.
・Wiktionary: An enticing but dangerous appeal, especially a misleading one.: Romance never sang to him her siren song, and Adventure had never shouted in his sluggish blood.
この辞書には語源についても次のように触れていました。
Etymology: From the songs of the sirens in Greek mythology, whose bewitching song lured mariners to their doom.
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