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Essay / Analysis of the necessary art of persuasion - 1381
1.a. Overall, Henry Fonda's style of persuasion consisted of adhering to his own, and each of the jurors', reasonable doubt as to the defendant's guilt in his father's murder. He leads by persuasion through an investigative method – asking questions, raising doubts, and undermining the certainty of other jurors. Fonda's leadership style demonstrates emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness, discipline, perseverance, and empathy. It is a style that mobilizes jurors toward a shared vision by pointing in the direction of not guilty and inviting other jurors to participate in discovering the best way to arrive at a decision.b. Fonda's character does a good job executing some of the four essential steps of persuasion, outlined in the article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," including establishing common ground, providing evidence, and the emotional connection. Fonda frames common ground in several cases. He creates common ground for one of the jurors when he describes how the defendant grew up in the slums. While the other jurors are quick to find the accused guilty because of his background, there is one juror who can identify with the boy, as he also grew up in the slums and took offense to the immediate judgments of others jurors based on this fact alone. Fonda also found common ground in relating the age of the old man who lived below the defendant to the older juror in the group. This helped him take another critical step: providing evidence. Fonda was able to provide evidence, maybe not hard evidence, but reasonable evidence that things may not have happened the way they were told in court. For example, the old man who lived below the boy and his father claimed to have heard the false middle of paper......she would pay whatever his terms entailed. This resulted in mutual benefit for both parties. A contingent contract could have been incorporated into the Miti-Pet dispute to help resolve their issues. For example, my group was able to reach an agreement with Rawmat, since we were not sure that they would meet our quality requirements, and that if they did not, we would be compensated for any damages resulting from these specifications quality not respected. We also agreed on an initial six-month contract for wheat flour, whereby, if at the end of the term we were satisfied with the results, we would agree to a long-term purchase contract of a minimum of 80,000 tons. This satisfied our need for quality products and guaranteed us no loss if we received otherwise. This also satisfied Rawmat's business need in its existing meat flour business and its new wheat flour business area...