Kushner: Most experienced government officials lack practical negotiation skills
Jared Kushner · Jared Kushner - The Mechanic · Invest Like The Best · Dec 20, 2024 · at 20:28
Jared Kushner, former senior advisor to President Trump and founder of Affinity Partners, reflects on the lack of practical dealmaking and negotiation experience he observed among government officials.
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“And I saw this in government as well, because in government, most of the people I dealt with had never really negotiated before. If you think about people who are technically experienced in government, they're experienced because they're more like historians or subject matter experts. So a lot of them I'd say, well, what have you ever negotiated for? Do you own your house? Do you have a mortgage? And I was really shocked in government at the lack of sophistication that most people had in negotiating, which is unfortunate because the stakes in government could not be higher.”
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